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The classic railway poster above was painted by the Italian artist Fortunino Matania and shows patrons leaving the Garrick Theatre in Southport, mentioned by Dan Dare in the original ‘Venus’ story in...
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In his autobiography Comic Book Hero, Barrie Tomlinson, the former Group Editor of Fleetway’s Boys’ Sports and AdventureComics, who launched the 1980s EAGLE, describes starkly the attitudes of senior...
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When EAGLE was absorbed into Lion in 1969, Dan Dare was joined by three other strips from EAGLE in the combined comic. These three were all recent arrivals in EAGLE, specially created for the merger....
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THE 1980S EAGLE IS 40
Today is the fortieth anniversary of the 1980s EAGLE, which was launched on March 20th 1982. Featuring the adventures of Dan Dare's great great grandson in strips illustrated by Gerry Embleton, Oliver...
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Only a small number of artists and a single writer worked on both the original EAGLE and the 1980s revival. This was principally because of the thirteen year gap between the end of the original and the...
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EAGLE TIMES VOL.35 No.1
The first EAGLE Times of the new year is out now and now is the best time to subscribe for the four issues of 2022. The subscription remains at £30 and should be sent to Bob Corn at the address on the...
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In 1986, twenty one years before Virgin Comics launched their seven part series of Dan Dare comics by Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine, Virgin Games created a Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future video game for...
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THE GORDON AND GOTCH STORY
JOE HOOLE EXAMINES THE REMARKABLE STORY OF EAGLE'S PRINCIPAL INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTOR. Their name appears in every single issue of Eagle, Girl, Swift, Robin and Boys’ World and in every issue of the...
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A LOOK AT LOOK-IN
JIM DUCKETT EXAMINES THE POPULAR TELEVISION TIE IN MAGAZINE WHICH RAN FROM 1971 TO 1994.In January 1971 a new weekly for young readers appeared on the news-stands. Described as the ‘Junior TV Times’,...
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EAGLE TIMES Vol. 35 No. 2
The Summer edition of EAGLE Times is out now. It features an impressive cover by Alan Langford of Captain Condor, Dan Dare's rival from Lion weekly, who appears inside in an article by John Freeman....
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EAGLE TIMES Vol.35 No.3
The Autumn issue of EAGLE Times is out now. Articles cover Dan Dare's lesser known rivals, girls in EAGLE, Luck of the Legion, the Canadian Pacific Railway and a report on our 2022 Gathering in...
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The Web of Fear was a ten part Dan Dare adventure which began in EAGLE in the issue dated October 20th 1962. Written by David Motton and illustrated in black and white by Keith Watson, it featured an...
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In 1982, the year that the new version of EAGLE was launched, a pop group called Loose Talk released a single called Dan Dare, about our hero. Written by band member Ray Walton, it was heavily promoted...
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Dan Dare encountered the 'Sargasso Sea of Space' in Reign of the Robots and The Ship That Lived, but two years earlier in 1955, the American writer Alice Norton,under her pseudonym of 'Andrew North',...
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JOAN PORTER (1926 - 2022) A tribute to the late EAGLE artist by Steve Winders
Joan Porter (nee Humphries), the last surviving member of Frank Hampson's original team who worked on the creation of Dan Dare and several other strips for the EAGLE has died aged 96. Joan was employed...
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EAGLE TIMES Vol.35 No.54 Winter 2022
The Winter issue of EAGLE Times is out now. This edition contains a tribute to our late Queen Elizabeth II by David Britton, who also contributes the final instalment of his series about the Canadian...
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THE FIRST CHRISTMAS EAGLE by John Culshaw
Not surprisingly, EAGLE always celebrated Christmas and particularly so in the 1950s when it was edited by the Rev. Marcus Morris. The very first Christmas EAGLE set an impressive precedent, with the...
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Martin Mere was the title of one of several strips that Frank Hampson created for EAGLE after The Road of Courage ended, but were never developed. Only one episode was illustrated but it was arguably...
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After Dan Dare, EAGLE's longest running character was Chicko, the three picture comedy strip by Norman Thelwell, which appeared weekly on the Editor's Page. This strip about a young boy contained no...
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There is still a publication that bears the name EAGLE produced currently in Britain, although the title is actually in Latin. Aquila is a monthly educational magazine for 8-14 year olds which contains...
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