Eagle Times Vol 22 No 1

Spring 2009 contents

• Operation Saturn - but not as we know it. Details of Frank Hampson's original 1952 story outline for Dan Dare's 4th adventure, revealed and reviewed
• Heros the Spartan - a review of EAGLE's popular 1960s sword and sorcery strip, part 2
• By a Hair's Breadth - artwork by Frank Hampson, from Ranger, 1965
• Prisoners of Space revisited - a new review of the Pilot of the Future's 5th EAGLE adventure
• PC49 and the Case of the Murderous Mouse - part 1 of a new story adaptation
• Edward Beal - more information about the creator the Railway Page that appeared in EAGLE's dummy second issue
• Rick Random, Space Detective - a review of Prion Books' recently published collection of 1950s interplanetary adventures
• More memories of Denis Gifford's Ally Sloper magazine
• "I was there" - part 5, memories of the Society of Strip Illustration Awards Dinner, December 1976
• More Crockett and Krispies - from the series Heroes of the West, drawn by Ron Embleton for Kellogg's Rice Krispies
• Eagle Autographs - part 4, the artists and storytellers
  
• Pop Music during Eagle Times - 1964

This issue's front cover features the Valiant spaceship from 'Operation Saturn' (EAGLE, 1953)
superimposed with images of Saturn and the Eagle Nebula (NASA photographs) .