IN AND OUT OF THE EAGLE 5
WITH JIM DUCKETT When EAGLE began, radio was still king and two of its most popular strips originated as BBC radio series. PC 49 began in 1947 and 112 half hour adventures of the London policeman,...
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WITH JIM DUCKETTIt’s a sobering thought but the first recorded Dan Dare adventure was set at least thirty years ago! This was Moon Run in the EAGLE Annual for 1961, which includes Dan’s first meeting...
View ArticleFRANK HAMPSON EXHIBITION
A major exhibition of Frank Hampson's work began this weekend at the Atkinson Arts Centre in Southport. The official opening is on Thursday September 20th and the exhibition will run until March 2019....
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WITH JIM DUCKETTYou don’t tend to bump into people called Horatio every day, but no less than three Horatios featured in their own strips in Eagle. First was John Ryan’s Captain Horatio Pugwash, who...
View ArticleTHE MAN WHO DREW DAN DARE
EXHIBITION REPORT BY DAVID BRITTONA reception was held on Thursday evening 20th September at the Atkinson Art Gallery in Lord St. Southport, to launch three new exhibitions that all have a local...
View ArticleEAGLE TIMES AUTUMN 2018 Vol. 31 No.3
The new EAGLE TIMES is out now and it is a strong, varied and interesting issue.LOOK OUT FOR:. EAGLE's Extended Family by Jeremy Briggs. The Seth and Shorty western strip by Joe Hoole. Jeremy Briggs'...
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The above frame is from Operation Triceratops, the Dan Dare story in Eagle Annual Number Four, published in 1954. It features a character called Sir Nigel Tawny, who engages Dan’s services to transport...
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A significant contributor to both Eagle and Girl was George Cansdale, the zoologist, writer and TV presenter who wrote half page strips about wildlife for seven years for Eagle, which included series...
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The late lamented comedy double act Morecambe and Wise have an unusual connection to Eagle’s 1961 - 62 strip Danger Unlimited. The strip was written by ‘Steve Alen’ whose real name was Leonard Fincham...
View ArticleDAN DARE AT CHRISTMAS
We'll be posting some articles from EAGLE TIMES occasionally on the blog and to start here's a piece by Steve Winders from the Christmas edition in 2016.Christmas was enthusiastically celebrated by...
View ArticleIN AND OUT OF THE EAGLE 11
Biographies of Dan Dare state that he was educated at Rossall School near Fleetwood in Lancashire. Founded in 1844 as a sister school to Marlborough College, which had been founded the previous year,...
View ArticleEAGLE TIMES - WINTER 2018 Vol. 31 No. 4
The new EAGLE Times is now available and it's another varied and interesting read. With articles about both the original 1950s weekly and the revived 1980s version, there are also features about...
View ArticleBIGGLES FLIES WITH EAGLE
Jim Duckett recalls the ‘Biggles’ serials and short stories which appeared in Eagle and its annuals.In a text story in the second EAGLE Annual, published in Autumn of 1952, one of Britain’s most famous...
View ArticleIN AND OUT OF THE EAGLE 12
The Man From Nowhere was an intriguing and appropriate title for the story of Dan Dare’s first encounter with people from another solar system, but there are several other ‘men from nowhere’ in books...
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Jack O’Lantern was originally another name for the strange phenomenon of light hovering over peat bogs, also known as a Will o’the Wisp. Carved out pumpkins with faces are often called Jack O’...
View ArticleBOURNE HALL EXHIBITION
A free exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Frank Hampson's birth is being held at the Bourne Hall Museum in Spring Street, Ewell in Surrey. Running from December 4th 2018 until March 12th 2019,...
View ArticleHAFORN: THE ICELANDIC EAGLE
BY BJORN AGEN-CHRISTENSONFrom 1954 -59 the most popular comic in my country of Iceland was 'Haforn', our own version of Britain's 'Eagle'. Many of the popular strips from 'Eagle' were featured in...
View ArticleEAGLE TIMES: Spring 2019
The first edition of EAGLE TIMES for 2019 is out now. Featuring articles on T.E. Lawrence, Marco Polo, Cutaway Drawings from the 1990s EAGLE, Look-In Magazine and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, it...
View ArticleEAGLE SOCIETY GATHERING - DUNDEE - 9th - 11th APRIL 2019
This year's annual gathering was held at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Dundee. Twenty six members attended the successful event which was organised by Eric Summers, ably assisted by Jeremy Briggs....
View ArticleIN AND OUT OF THE EAGLE 14
The very first Dan Dare story had no individual title, but when Titan Booksreprinted it in 2004 they called it Voyage to Venus. In 2008 Orion Publishing produced an audio dramatisation of the first...
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