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THE EAGLE SOCIETY is dedicated to the memory of EAGLE - Britain's National Picture Strip Weekly - the leading Boy's magazine of the 1950s and 1960s. We publish an A4, quarterly journal - the Eagle Times.

This weblog has been created to provide an additional, more immediate, forum for news and commentary about the society and EAGLE-related issues. Want to know more? See First Post and Eagle - How it began.
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Monday, 14 December 2009

Eagle Times Vol 22 No 4

Winter 2009 contents
  • Eagle artists at home - recollections of Eagle illustrators Frank Hampson, RonEmbleton, Keith Watson, Frank Humphris , John Worsley, Peter Jackson and Don Lawrence in the 1970s and 1980s
  • John Dyke - the third in a series of articles about Eagle's nature artists reveals what is known of the artist of 'Advice on your Pets' and 'Discovering the Countryside'
  • Treasure, John Worsley and 'Wee Willie Winkie' - the PC49 artist's spot-illustration work for Fleetway's pre-school periodical Treasure
  • Dimworthy and Co, part 2 - concluding a review of Eagle's school strip stories
  • Rod Barzilay's Spaceship Away Day - photographs and review from the second gathering of 'Dan Dare' fans at Bournemouth in November 2009
  • 'The Case of the Purple Paint' - a PC49 Christmas story
  • The Late Jack Daniel - some personal recollections about Eagle's first 'Riders of the Range' artist
  • Under the 1950s Christmas Tree - some toys Santa might have left for you back in Eagle's times
  • 'Nowhere' is not quite what it seems - a review of the 1956 Pathe Pictorial on Frank Hampson and the 'Dan Dare' Studio
  • Is there Anybody there? - an address to the Eagle Society at the 2009 Annual Dinner
  • Christmas Eagles - a look at Christmas issues of Eagle, its some of its companion and rival papers.
  • Eagle Autographs, part 6 - a post-script covering the Eagle Club's figureheads
  • What's in a name, part 2 - concluding a look at the career of the multi-talented Gerry Embleton, the artist who brought back 'Dan Dare' in "new" Eagle (1982)
  • Eagle Annual: the best of the 1960s comic - a review of Orion Books' latest "nostalgia" publication
  • Pop Music during Eagle times - part 18, covering 1967
The cover illustration is from 'He wants to be a Postman' Eagle, Vol 7 No 52, Christmas issue, 1956

Saturday, 13 December 2008

Eagle Times Vol 21 No 4

Winter 2008 contents
  • Memories of Christmas Past - seasonal cards and drawings by some of the best
  • A Kennedy Christmas - some of Ian Kennedy's Christmas-themed comics and annual covers
  • The Career of Ian Kennedy - part 2, from the eighties to the new millenium
  • More of EAGLE's 2nd issue dummy, including Norman Thelwell's 'Pop Milligan' and Frank Hampson's 'The Great Adventurer' - with Joan Porter's recollections of the Bakehouse Studio in the 1950s
  • Frank Hampson at the Festival - a contemporary note written by Frank Hampson on the Angouleme Comics Festival, 1978
  • PC49 - The Case of the Galloping Ghost
  • An account of the Chad Varah Memorial Service at St Paul's Cathedral, held on 12th November, 2008
  • "I was there" - the launch of Denis Gifford's Ally Sloper Magazine in 1976
  • Who's who No. 50
  • The Eagle Annual of the Cutaways - book review
  • Heros the Spartan - part 1, beginning a review of EAGLE's popular 1960s sword and sorcery strip
  • Tony Weare - part 2, concluding the life of a favourite artist
  • Books for Christmas - a seasonal review
  • EAGLE on the web
  • Pop Music in EAGLE Times - 1963
This issue's cover shows some Memories of Christmas Past - cards by Peter Jackson, Tony Weare and Keith Watson - courtesy of Alan Vince.

Wednesday, 12 December 2007

Eagle Times, Volume 20 No 4

Winter 2007 Contents
  • Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future - The Untold Stories
  • EAGLE Autographs (part 2)
  • Obituary - Revd. Dr. Edward Chad Varah, CH, CBE, MA Oxon.
  • Comics Britannia picks Max Hastings to speak for EAGLE
  • Jack o'Lantern in Wiltshire - an exploration of setting (part 3)
  • EAGLE on the Web
  • Frank Hampson in The Post (part 1)
  • Virgin's Dare?
  • Dick Barton - special agent (part 5)
  • Eagle Annual - The Best of the 1950s Comic - Book Review
  • Whatever happened to Harold Johns? (part 3)
  • A PC49 Christmas story - The Case of The Third Ace
  • Obituary - R.W. Kinder
  • The Art of Cecil Orr
  • Eagle Novels
  • 'This artist guy owes me an apology'
  • Did this artist have the greatest influence on Frank Hampson?
  • Pop Music during Eagle Times - 1960