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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.

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Showing posts with label volume 21. Show all posts
Showing posts with label volume 21. Show all posts

Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Eagle Times Vol 21 No3

Autumn 2008 contents
  • The Career of Ian Kennedy - part 1, the 1950s to the 1970s
  • More of the EAGLE's second issue dummy (including 'Rob Conway' in colour!)
  • The Final Winner? - what happened to the EAGLE 'Sportsman of the Year' trophy
  • Frank Hampson at NESCOT (1972 to 1977) - another 'I was there' article
  • Tony Weare, artist for all seasons - who turned down an offer to draw 'Dan Dare'!
  • Another 'Anastasia' - how a classic car artist (Jack Lewis) came to create a tribute to Bruce Cornwell
  • Marcus Morris and the 1953 Coronation recording
  • Dan Dare, the Audio Book: Voyage to Venus - part 1 (a review)
  • The magic of Pelikan Inks
  • EAGLE on the web
  • PC49: The Case of the Pink Panic - part 3 (conclusion)
  • Nether Wallop - in Surrey? - a church that might have been the model for a scene in the first 'Dan Dare' story
  • Dan Dare - the Virgin Version - a review
  • Crockett & Krispies - on Ron Embleton's 1956 'Heros of the West' series for Kellogg's
  • Snakes Alive! - artist Geoffrey ('Luck of the Legion') Bond's fascination with snakes
  • Looks familiar! - How 1959 'Dan Dare' artwork provided the reference for newspaper illustrations ten years later
  • Pop Music in EAGLE times - 1962

The 'Dan Dare' illustration on the front cover this issue of Eagle Times is by Ian Kennedy
and appeared in the ('new series') Eagle, 8th January, 1983.

Monday, 30 June 2008

Eagle Times, Vol 21 No 2

Summer 2008 Contents
  • An EAGLE nobody knows - the dummy second issue
  • The many faces of Jeff Arnold - illustrators of Riders of the Range
  • Blackbow the Cheyenne - from Comet to Swift to EAGLE
  • Comics 101 - I was there (part 2)
  • Guy and John - wartime experiences of Guy (Edward Trice) Morgan and John Worsley
  • Never again will anyone envisage Man's future like this - Frank Hampson's vision
  • Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - 2008) - a personal tribute
  • EAGLE on the Web
  • Journey into Space: Frozen in Time - a review of Charles Chilton's new BBC radio play
  • The Science Museum's Dan Dare and the Birth of Hi-tech Britain exhibition reviewed
  • PC49 - The case of the Pink Panic (part 2)
  • A Dan Dare postscript to 'An EAGLE nobody knows'
  • The 2008 Eagle Society Weekend - review and photographs
  • Great EAGLE O'er the Silvery Forth - a poetic tribute to the Eagle Society's visit to Edinburgh (in the style of William McGonagall)
The picture on the front of this issue of Eagle Times is from Eagle Riders of the Range Annual 1961 and is by Harry Bishop.

Monday, 31 March 2008

Eagle Times, Vol 21 No 1

Spring 2008 Contents
  • Comics 101 - I was there (part 1)
  • Eagle Times on the Web
  • Stills from A Case for PC49 (Hammer Films)
  • Clevedon Confectionery's trade card album
  • The Iron Man - EAGLE's popular android
  • HMS Eagle's association with EAGLE
  • Frank Hampson in The Post (part 2)
  • A Tribute to Chad Varah
  • Virgin's Dare is not for me!
  • Chris Weston's Dan Dare
  • PC49 - The case of the Pink Panic (part 1)
  • The mysterious case of Dan Dare's space suit
  • EAGLE on the Web
  • Whatever Happened to Harold Johns? (part 4)
  • Pop Music in Eagle Times - 1961
  • EAGLE Autographs (part 3)
With this edition, Eagle Times marks over 20 years of continuous publication - longer than the original publication, Eagle, that we celebrate! The cover features just a few samples of the 80 covers that have preceded this one, from 1988 - 2007.