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EAGLE TIMES Vol. 39 No. 2
The new EAGLE Times is out now. This issue has a strong focus on our recent Gathering in Peterborough, with a report by Reg Hoare and pictures by Paul Napp. The text of my talk 'What Happens Now That...
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John Wagner awarded an M.B.E.
Congratulations to the celebrated comics writer John Wagner, who was awarded an M.B.E. in the King's birthday honours. John co-created 'Judge Dredd', 'Strontium Dog' and 'Robo Hunter' for 2000 A.D....
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BARRIE TOMLINSON R.I.P.
We are sad to report the death of Barrie Tomlinson, who as Group Editor for Boys' Sports and Adventure publications for I.P.C. magazines was instrumental in the revival of EAGLE in the 1980s, which he...
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EAGLE TIMES Vol.39 No.1 Spring 2026
The first EAGLE Times of 2026 is out now and available from Bob Corn at the address alongside. This is the best time to subscribe for the four issues this year. A subscription for the year is still...
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ALAN VINCE R.I.P.
Alan Vince, who died in December 2025 was undoubtedly a ‘Dan Dare’ superfan. He was the first fan to interview Frank Hampson at length and he became a recognised and reliable authority and archivist...
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IN AND OUT OF THE EAGLE 59
In addition to the new EAGLE, the 1980s brought new versions of two of the other weeklies originally edited by Marcus Morris, Girl and Robin. Girl was actually launched in 1981, a year ahead of the...
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IN AND OUT OF THE EAGLE 58
The BBC television series The Bidding Room in which people bring interesting items to sell to dealers who bid against each other to buy them, featured a 1950s 'Dan Dare' Planet Gun, complete with its...
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EAGLE TIMES Vol. 38 No. 4 Winter 2025
The final EAGLE Times of 2025 is out now. With articles about 'Riders of the Range', the Dan Dare Annual for 1963, 'Heros the Spartan', the 'Dan Dare' strip in Yugoslavia's Plavi vjesnik'weekly and...
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THE FOURTH CHRISTMAS EAGLE by John Culshaw
Another Christmas and another planet for Dan Dare and Digby. The fourth Christmas issue of EAGLE was dated 24th December 1953 (Vol. 4 No.38) and Dan was now on Titan, one of Saturn's moons,...
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IN AND OUT OF THE EAGLE 57
In 1964, EAGLE's publishers Odhams Press launched a new weekly called Wham! mainly created by the cartoonist Leo Baxendale, who had created 'The Bash Street Kids', 'Little Plum' and 'Minnie the Minx'...
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DAN DARE'S SPECIAL PROJECT - A fabulous new informative resource from Italian...
The Italian Fumettomania Factory Association who are enthusiasts of British comics are completing a “Special Project” devoted to the ‘Dan Dare’ strip. The Project includes a series of articles...
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DAN DARE MIGHT BE BACK!
B7 Comics has teamed up with bestselling author and screenwriter Alex de Campi (Rogue Trooper: Ghost Patrol and Duncan Jones’ Madi: Once Upon a Time in the Future) and artist Marc Laming (James Bond,...
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IN AND OUT OF THE EAGLE 56
One of the many 'Dan Dare' products produced during the 1950s was the Wallis Rigby 'Anastasia' Presso Book. This provided press out cardboard parts which made up into a model of Dan's spaceship, named...
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IN AND OUT OF THE EAGLE 55
This is the front page of D.C. Thomson's Hotspur story paper dated August 23rd 1947 and the 'eagle' picture is notably similar to our own EAGLE symbol which adorned the weekly from Issue One in April...
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EAGLE TIMES Vol. 38 No. 3 Autumn 2025
The new EAGLE Times is out now. In this issue are articles about Willie Patterson, Ron Embleton and John Burns' strip 'Wrath of the Gods', which joined EAGLE when it absorbed Boys' World; Luis...
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IN AND OUT OF THE EAGLE 54
Although there were EAGLE Annuals every year, several character annuals and several novels about EAGLE characters, 1954 brought a unique book. This was a 'Riders of the Range' strip book, Jeff Arnold...
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EAGLE TIMES Vol. 38 No.2 SUMMER 2025
The 150th edition of EAGLE Times is out now. Featuring a cover by Graham Bleathman showing Dan Dare's spacecraft 'Anastasia' and several other craft flying over a future London and the back page with...
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IN AND OUT OF THE EAGLE 53
From its first issue, dated 26th January 1963 until its last, dated 3rd October 1964, EAGLE's companion paper Boys' World ran a full colour strip based on Greek Mythology called 'Wrath of the Gods'....
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EAGLE TIMES Vol. 38 No. 1 SPRING 2025
The latest edition of EAGLE Times is out now. It has a strong Frank Bellamy theme, with the first parts of articles by myself on both 'The Happy Warrior', about Winston Churchill and 'Montgomery of...
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EAGLE SOCIETY GATHERING AT PLYMOUTH
The EAGLE Society celebrated the seventy fifth anniversary of EAGLE in Plymouth this week. Our guests were Ray O'Donnell from the Devonport Naval Heritage Centre, who spoke about the Devonport Naval...
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