Eagle: The Space Age Weekly (BBC Radio 4)
As most of our readers will know already, 2010 saw the 60th Anniversary of the launch of Eagle. As the year draws to a close, the BBC is marking the anniversary with a half-hour radio documentary...
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Tomorrow revisited (review)
Standard Trade EditionWithin the space of a few weeks two books related to ‘Dan Dare’ have been published. I have already reviewed the first, Daniel Tatarsky’s Dan Dare - The Biography. The latest is...
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Eagle Times Vol 23 No 4
Winter 2010 ContentsNot all Lancashire Lads and Lasses - a brief article on the genealogy of ('Dan Dare' creator) Frank HampsonThe Incredible Shrinking Fish - a critical examination of the giant sea...
View ArticleEagle Times - Sample Issue
Eagle Times is provided on an Annual Subscription basis to Members of the Eagle Society. However, we are sometimes asked if we can provide a Sample Issue to prospective subscribers, who may be unsure...
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We have received a number of requests from Members* about the availability of back issues (back numbers) of Eagle Times. Although it is difficult to maintain a fully up to date list, most of those...
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Eagle: The Space Age Weekly - review
Eagle: The Space Age Weekly was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 23rd December 2010. My earlier post found cause to criticise the text the BBC put on its website in advance of the programme, and I expressed...
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Dan Dare: Trip to Trouble
Trip to Trouble is the thirteenth in the Titan Books series of reprints of 'Dan Dare' from the original Eagle magazine. The volume contains four 'Dan Dare' adventures, two from Eagle in 1959-1960 and...
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Eagle Times Vol 24 No 1
Spring 2011 ContentsPC49 in The Case of the Crying Clown - beginning a new text story adaptation from one of Alan Stranks' famous BBC radio play police adventuresSpaceship Awaaaaaaaaay! - Eagle Times...
View ArticleAndrew Skilleter
This post comes as a result of a request from its subject! The illustrator Andrew Skilleter has asked if we would be willing to post something relating to his new website, www.andrewskilleter.com, on...
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Eagle Times Vol 24 No 2
Summer 2011 ContentsFrank and the Newspaper Cuttings: a look at the use by Frank Hampson, throughout his career, of images of newspapers and newspaper cuttings, as a powerful visual aid to...
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Charles Chilton's Autobiography
Charles Chilton, MBE:Journey into SpaceRiders of the Range Oh, What a Lovely War!The eagerly anticipated autobiography of Charles Chilton, MBE, is to be published soon by the media company Fantom...
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Eagle Times Vol 24 No 3
Autumn 2011 ContentsA Look at Luck - the first in a series examining 'Luck of the Legion', the French Foreign Legion strip written by Geoffrey Bond and drawn by Martin Aitchison, that ran in Eagle from...
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John Ryan Retrospective
John Ryan in 1993A retrospective exhibition showing about 50 works of the late John Ryan will open at the Stormont Studio, Rye Art Gallery, Rye, East Sussex at 2 pm on 19th November, 2011. The...
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Spaceship Away - Part 25
It's been a while since we featured Spaceship Away on this blog, but the recent arrival of Part 25 on my doormat prompted me so to do. Spaceship Away is a three times a year, full colour, 40-page A4...
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Eagle Times Vol 24 No 4
Winter 2011 ContentsFrom Under the 1950s Christmas Tree, Pepys Card Games - a seasonal look at the numerous Pepys games, which included some based around characters from Eagle ('Dan Dare' and 'Jeff...
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A. Bruce Cornwell - obituary
Centrespread illustration by Bruce CornwellSpaceship Away, No. 12, Summer 2007 Sadly we have heard of the death, on 2nd March 2012, of one of the original artists who worked on the 'Dan Dare' strip,...
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Eagle and Dan Dare Commemorated on a Stamp
On 20th March 2012, Eagle and its leading character, Dan Dare, will be featured on one of a set of 1st class postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail. The Comics stamps issue comprising ten designs...
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Voyage to Venus - Michael Shipway
Michael Shipway's Voyage To Venus, published by MSL Music, is an electronic music album inspired by the first 'Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future' story (which began in Eagle No. 1 in 1950). It is available...
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Eagle Times Vol 25 No 1
Spring 2012 Contents'The Roger Dean Experience' - on working in the late 1970s - early 1980s with the founder of Dragon's Dream on the 'Dan Dare' trilogy (The Man From Nowhere, Rogue Planet and Reign...
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Eagle Times Vol 25 No 2
Summer 2012 Contents'The Hands of Gods' - a look at how three talented artists, Frank Hampson, Ron Embleton and Frank Bellamy each had his own way of drawing hands'A. Bruce Cornwell (1920 - 2012)' - a...
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