Congratulations to John M. Burns on his eighty fifth birthday. John is one of a small group of artists who contributed to both the original
EAGLE and the 1980s version. Over a sixty year career he has produced a massive amount of impressive comic strip work. For
EAGLE in the 1960s he illustrated episodes of
Roving Reporter, Bids for Freedom and the final six episodes of
Wrath of the Gods, which joined
EAGLE when it absorbed
Boys' World in October 1964. He had illustrated this famous colour strip for
Boys' World since July 1963, when he took over from Ron Embleton and he produced seventy two episodes in total. For the 1980s
EAGLE he illustrated
The Fists of Danny Pike, Dolebusters and a
Dan Dare adventure. His other work includes
Wulf the Briton for
Express Weekly in 1961, which he also took over from Ron Embleton, several strips for
EAGLE's companion paper
Robin, Kelpie the Boy Wizard for Wham!,many strips for the TV based comics
TV21, Lady Penelope, Countdown, TV Action and
Look -In, The Seekers for
The Daily Sketch, Jane and
Girl Chat for
The Daily Mirror, George and Lynne for
The Sun, Julia for the German newspaper
Bild, Nicolai Dante, Sinister Dexter The Order and
Judge Dredd for
2000 A.D. and
The Bendatti Vendetta for the
Judge Dredd Megazine. John has also illustrated comic strip versions of several classic novels.
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