HARRY LINDFIELD

We have just learned that Harry Lindfield, who drew the 'Mark Question' strip in EAGLE, which ran from 1957 - 58 and was partly reprinted as 'Mark Mystery' in 1968, has sadly died at the age of ninety one. Harry also contributed to EAGLE's companion papers Girl and Swift, drawing the popular 'Belle of the Ballet' strip for Girl. He later illustrated 'Star Trek' for Joe 90 and then TV 21 weeklies, 'The Monkees' for Lady Penelope weekly and 'Doctor Who' for Countdown and TV Action weeklies. He was highly regarded by readers and other artists. Lew Stringer described him as "A quality artist who always produced top class work," and David Roach said "It takes real skill to draw figures as naturalistically as this and he must surely be one of our finest comic artists." By popular demand, his 'Star Trek' work has recently been published again in a collection. We send our condolences to Harry's family and friends.  

EAGLE TIMES VOL. 36 NO.3 AUTUMN 2023

The Autumn edition of EAGLE Times is out now. It features a wide range of articles including a look at 'Riders of the Range' and 'Blackbow the Cheyenne' artist Frank Humphris' sketchbook, by Richard Sheaf and a piece by Brett Gooden about the early cutaway drawings of Leslie Ashwell Wood. Also in this issue are articles by Steve Winders about the 'Mark Question' strip, 'The Great Charlemagne' and the EAGLE novel, Luck of the Legion's Desert Adventure, an article by Peter Barr about the sports strip artist Mazure, a selection of readers'letters from the 1950s EAGLE by David Britton, a complete new Archie Willoughby story and two of my 'In and Out of the EAGLE' pages. My recent post from the blog about 'Eagles Dare' beer (see below) is also included, along with our editor's review of the beer which he bought on a recent visit to Southport. Copies can be ordered from Bob Corn at the address on the right.