Derek Birnage

Derek Arthur William Birnage (1913-2004) was a comics writer and editor, now best remembered as the original editor of Tiger and one of the writers of its most successful spin-off, Roy of the Rovers (he wrote under the pseudonym Frank Windsor). Working for Amalgamated Press both before and after the second world war, he also edited Lion and numerous comics annuals, but left the field in 1964 to work as a newspaper editor. Returning to AP, now IPC, in 1970, he worked on Buster, Score 'n' Roar and Smash! before being made redundant in 1972.