From masthead for Eagle comic, logo by Berthold Wolpe, 1953

The Eagle was a British weekly comic, which ran in two main incarnations over the period of 1950 to 1994 (with accompanying annuals). It is strongly associated with its flagship character, Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, (created and illustrated by Frank Hampson in the earlier photographic format), doing battle against the Mekon and other interplanetary foes. Logo of Eagle comic, circa 1950 This work is copyrighted. ... Logo of Eagle comic, circa 1950 This work is copyrighted. ... Berthold Wolpe (* October 29, 1905 in Offenbach, † July 5, 1989 in London) was a German type designer and teacher. ... British comics is the art form of comics as practiced within the United Kingdom. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... The return of the original Dan Dare in 1989 Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future is a classic British science fiction comic hero, created by Frank Hampson in 1950. ... A comic strip creator at work. ... A Frank Hampson & Don Harley panel from the 1959 : Dan Dare in Operation Moss Frank Hampson (1918 - 1985) is best known for being the creator of Dan Dare. ... The Mekon was the arch-enemy of the British comic book hero Dan Dare, first appearing in 1950 in the Eagle comic. ... Existing or occurring between planets. ...

Up until this time, comics had been aimed at both boys and girls, but a definite gender split began to open up, with the Eagle and Girl (1951 – 1964), clearly aimed at different markets. 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...

Original version

Cover to Eagle's original version, dated 12 October 1963

The Eagle was the creation of the Reverend Marcus Morris, who intended it as a Christian antidote to what he saw as the bad influence of American comics during the post-war period. He strove to produce high quality, inspirational literature unlike any existing at the time, involving the work of teams of graphic artists such as Frank Hampson and Frank Bellamy - even creating mockups of spaceships to use as reference for Dan Dare. The Eagle and its sister papers Girl, Swift and Robin were designed by renowned typographer Ruari McLean, and were read by millions throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Eagle became the most popular comic in British history, selling over 2 million copies per week. Image File history File links Eaglev14-41. ... Image File history File links Eaglev14-41. ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... A Christian is a follower of Jesus of Nazareth, referred to as Christ. ... An American comic book is a small magazine originating in the United States containing a narrative in the comics form. ... A Frank Hampson & Don Harley panel from the 1959 : Dan Dare in Operation Moss Frank Hampson (1918 - 1985) is best known for being the creator of Dan Dare. ... Frank Bellamy (born 21 May 1917, died 5 July 1976) was a British comics artist, best known for his work on the Dan Dare strip, on which he replaced Frank Hampson. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning the years 1950 to 1959. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... One million (1000000), one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999999 and preceding 1000001. ...

This first version ran from 14 April 1950 to 26 April 1969, when it merged with Lion. Originally published by Hulton Press, it was taken over in 1960 by Odhams, which was renamed Longacre Press. The following year Odhams was taken over by the Daily Mirror Group (now IPC), who produced The Eagle until 1969. April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Lion was a Fleetway weekly for boys, also publishing a hard-cover annual. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Alternate newspaper: The Daily Mirror (Australia) The Daily Mirror is a popular British tabloid daily newspaper. ... IPC may refer to: Indian Penal Code Institute for printed circuits - an Association laying standards for every aspect of PCB design, manufacturing, and testing. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...

Strips during the original version included:

• Blackbow the Cheyenne
• Blunderbirds
• Chicko illustrated by Norman Thelwell
• Cornelius Dimworthy
• Dan Dare, created by illustrator Frank Hampson
• The Guinea Pig
• Fraser of Africa illustrated by Frank Bellamy
• Heros the Spartan illustrated by Frank Bellamy
• The Iron Man
• Jeff Arnold and Riders of the Range, written by Charles Chilton, illustrated by Frank Humphris
• Knights of the Road
• The Life of.... illustrated by Frank Bellamy and others
• Luck of the Legion illustrated by Martin Aitchison
• Harris Tweed illustrated by John Ryan
• PC49 illustrated by John Worsley
• Storm Nelson illustrated by Richard Jennings
• Tommy Walls
• Captain Pugwash created by John Ryan
• Waldorf & Cecil
• Jack o'Lantern illustrated by Robert Ayton

The back page of The Eagle was usually devoted to depicting the life story of a (usually) historic character, told in the normal strip format over many months. These included The Happy Warrior (the life of Winston Churchill), The Shepherd King (the life of the biblical King David), Gordon of Khartoum (the life of General Gordon), Montgomery of Alamein (the life of Lord Montgomery), all drawn by Frank Bellamy; and The Road of Courage (the life of Jesus Christ), drawn by Frank Hampson. Norman Thelwell (3 May 1923 - 7 February 2004) was a British cartoonist well-known for his humorous illustrations of ponies and horses. ... The return of the original Dan Dare in 1989 Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future is a classic British science fiction comic hero, created by Frank Hampson in 1950. ... A Frank Hampson & Don Harley panel from the 1959 : Dan Dare in Operation Moss Frank Hampson (1918 - 1985) is best known for being the creator of Dan Dare. ... The Guinea Pig is a 1948 British film also known as The Outsider in the United States. ... Iron Man is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and a member of The Avengers. ... Charles Chilton, MBE, (born 1917) is a BBC radio presenter, a writer and a producer. ... Luck of the Legion was a strip cartoon in The Eagle. ... A John Ryan panel from the 1959 : Harris Tweed in Man Eater! Harris Tweed, usually known as Harris Tweed, Special Agent and later as Harris Tweed - Super Sleuth, was a character in the The Eagle drawn by John Ryan Tweed was a monacled, rotund, bumbling, secret agent who, along with... John Ryan can refer to: Several recipients of the Victoria Cross: in 1857, see John Ryan (VC 1857) in 1863, see John Ryan (VC 1863) in 1918, see John Ryan (VC 1918) John Ryan, a a British animator and cartoonist. ... Screenshot Captain Pugwash is a fictional pirate character in a series of British childrens comic strips, books and animated films created by John Ryan. ... John Ryan can refer to: Several recipients of the Victoria Cross: in 1857, see John Ryan (VC 1857) in 1863, see John Ryan (VC 1863) in 1918, see John Ryan (VC 1918) John Ryan, a a British animator and cartoonist. ... This article is becoming very long. ... David and Goliath by Caravaggio, c. ... Chinese Gordon as Governor of Sudan Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator. ... Bernard Law Montgomery Field Marshal The Right Honourable Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO (17 November 1887–24 March 1976) was a British Army officer, most noted for his involvement in World War II and often referred to as Monty. // Early life and World War... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

As well as strips there was heavy factual content, including regular reports from The Eagle's own "Special Correspondent", former war correspondent Macdonald Hastings (father of Max Hastings, the newspaper editor), cutaway drawings of vehicles and machinery (by artists such as L. Ashwell Wood, reader contributions, and items of interest such as how to perform magic tricks. A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war zone. ... Macdonald Hastings (1909–October 4, 1982), journalist and war correspondent. ... Sir Max Hastings is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. ... Editing is the process of preparing language, images, or sound for presentation through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications. ... Magic, including the arts of prestidigitation and conjuring, is the art of entertaining an audience by performing illusions that baffle and amaze, often by giving the impression that something impossible has been achieved, almost as if the performer had magic or supernatural powers. ...

There was also a series of text stories entitled The Three J's, written by Peter Ling, about the adventures of three schoolboy friends whose first names all began with that letter. Peter Ling is a writer for television and a novelist. ...

A number of 'Eagle Novels' were published by Hulton Press in the late 1950s. These included:

• Dan Dare on Mars (1956)
• Luck of the Legion's Secret mission (1956)
• Storm Nelson and the Sea Leopard (1957)
• The Three J's and the Pride of Northbrook (1957).
• Luck of the Legion's Desert Adventure (1958)
• Jack O’ Lantern and the Fighting Cock (1958)

Revived version

Cover to the revived version of Eagle, issue 1

The Eagle was re-launched by IPC (later Fleetway) on March 27, 1982, aiming for the same quality end of the comic-reading market.^{[citation needed]} The marketplace had matured considerably over the intervening years since the first Eagle, with readers seen as disenchanted by a largely stagnant boy's comic industry. John Purdie had recently revitalised photo stories (photographic-based strips) in Fleetway's girls comics, and this tactic was extended to create the relaunched Eagle's Unique selling point; most of the early strips were produced in photographic form, extending the medium to include science fiction, football, westerns, and so on. Cover of Eagle comic, volume two, issue 1 This work is copyrighted. ... Cover of Eagle comic, volume two, issue 1 This work is copyrighted. ... IPC Media is a large British publishing company, mainly producing consumer magazines. ... Fleetway, also known as Fleetway Publications and Fleetway Editions, was a publishing company, mainly producing comic magazines for the U.K.. Fleetway began life as Amalgamated Press, the company owned by Alfred Harmsworth, who were based in Fleetway House. ... March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in leap years). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lens and mounting of a large format camera Photography is the technique of recording and generating permanent images, by the capturing and preservation of physical stimulus-patterns on a layer of photosensitive material. ... The Unique Selling Proposition was proposed as a theory to explain a pattern among successful advertising campaigns of the early 1940s. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Western fiction is a genre of literature that is typically set in any of the American states west of the Mississippi River and between the years of approximately 1860 and 1900. ...

This second volume ran from March 1982 until January 1994, with several relaunches/incarnations, however the comic had become a monthly anthology by this point with little new material. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... ANThology is the first major label album by Alien Ant Farm. ...

Initial photo-strip incarnation

As stated above, originally many strips were produced in photographic format, and printed on heavy-duty magazine paper. This had the double-edged effect of increasing a strip's visual impact, but not only was it more expensive than producing drawn strips, the medium limited the range of stories, and led to unconvincing action sequences.

Dez Skinn characterised this period as "Photo strips and action stories are an ill-met pairing. No extremes, no tension. Just embarrassed amateur actors (ie office staff) wearing silly expressions and even sillier masks." [1] Dez Skinn Dez Skinn is a British comic book and magazine editor born in Yorkshire in 1951. ...

The strips were accompanied by factual articles, cartoons, and reader contributions similarly to the first volume.

Strips during this period included:

• The Collector - one-off morality tales based around items owned by The Collector
• Crowe St. Comp - the adventures of a group of comprehensive schoolchildren
• Dan Dare, often illustrated by Ian Kennedy - notable for being a drawn strip, in lavish colour
• Doomlord- Eagle's most popular strip, a saga about a shape-changing alien sentencing humanity to death, but being replaced by another alien who served as Earth's protector
• Ernie - the Eagle's mascot
• The Fifth Horseman - a drawn strip, initially about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, becoming a story about an alien computer attempting world domination
• Fred- another half-page cartoon featuring a Charlie Chaplin-type character
• Gil Hazzard (Scorpio) - a drawn strip about a 'hard man', with the gimmick of its initial run in Stereoscopic 3D
• The House of Correction - set in a Nazi concentration camp
• The House of Daemon - a strip involving characters trying to escape a haunted house
• The Invisible Boy - about a schoolboy who could turn invisible
• Jake's Platoon - set in World War II
• Joe Soap - a comedy strip about an incompetent private detective
• Manix - an action strip about a robot secret agent
• Saddle Tramp - a western strip featuring a bounty hunter
• Sergeant Streetwise - an undercover sergeant who used disguise to catch criminals
• Thunderbolt and Smokey! - about two schoolboys creating their own football team
• The Tower King - set in a modern-day London reduced to medieval anarchy
• Walk or Die - a survival story about children in a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness

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Revert to drawn format

With issue 79 (dated September 24, 1983), Eagle reverted to a more traditional drawn-strip format, which allowed the use of cheaper paper stock, and also gave the strips more creative freedom. Some existing photo-strips continued in the drawn format, and the non-strip elements were largely removed. This was Eagle's most stable and successful period; although in 1987 a mini-relaunch occurred, as the comic's size and paper stock was again changed (resembling the original incarnation) and a slew of strips were replaced. September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

During this period, Eagle absorbed several other titles:

• Scream! on July 7, 1984
• Tiger on April 6, 1985
• Battle Picture Weekly on January 30, 1988
• M.A.S.K. on October 29, 1988
• Wildcat on April 8, 1989

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Original strips during this period included:

• The Amstor Computer - a 'story of the week' strip where readers sent in codes that loaded that week's story
• Avenger - a vigilante with a day job as a teacher
• Bloodfang - initially a naturalistic tale relating the life of a Tyrannosaur, who was later captured by time-travelling bounty hunters and shipped to a zoo in the 22nd century
• The Brothers - the tale of two twins, one regressed to a 'caveman' state due to an industrial accident, trying to locate their family
• Computer Warrior, initially known as Ultimate Warrior - a popular and long-lived strip featuring a boy who could play computer games for real using a 'real life code'
• Comrade Bronski - yet another incarnation of the 'hard man' formula, this time with the central character as a member of the KGB rooting out internal corruption
• D.A.D.D. - Dial A Dawn Destructor, a group of rock stars, Dawn Destruction, who solved crimes during the night
• Detective Zed - a humorous strip about a robot detective in 22nd Century London
• Dolebusters - a strip about three young would-be entrepreneurs who will do anything for ready cash
• The Fists of Danny Pike - about an amateur boxer overcoming adversity to become world champion
• Ghost Squad - a spin off of Death Wish, about a squad of ghost detectives
• Ghostworld
• The Hand - about a man who gets the implanted hand of a Mafia don, which explicably forces him to commit criminal acts, petty revenge, etc. Criticised for its violence
• The Hard Men (comic strip), also known as Clovis and Chowdhary - generic 'hard men' strip about two MI5 agents blackmailed into performing secret missions
• Kid Cops - a science fiction strip where, as all future wars are fought on the Moon, Earth is largely deserted and children must become the police
• Legend of the Linkits - a toy merchandising tie-in, about a war of robots built from building blocks similar to Meccano or Lego
• Manta Force - a toy merchandising tie-in, about a group of space colonists who end up in a civil war on their new home. The strip was notable for the colony ship/toy appearing roughly the size of a supermarket yet supposedly containing thousands of troops, tanks and equipment stowed away for the duration of its voyage
• News Team - a group of investigative reporters undertaking adventures in war-torn countries and similarly dangerous locations
• Roadblasters - a toy merchandising tie-in, about organised racing across an entire planet
• Robo-Machines - a toy merchandising tie-in, about the battle of good and evil by sentient shapeshifting robots, similar to Transformers
• Shadow (comic strip) - a strip about a wandering police dog, similar to Lassie but with more violence
• Soup Squad - a secret division of Scotland Yard dedicated to investigating supernatural crimes
• S.O.S. - a strip from the back catalogue of Battle about a group of crack undercover soldiers, continued with new material
• Survival - a science fiction strip about a group of children struggling to survive in a world where every adult has died of plague. The strip is remarkably similar to Kids Rule O.K., which got its parent comic Action banned due to its continual and senseless violence
• Timespell
• Toys of Doom - a sequel of a frequently-reprinted multi-part horror strip originally seen in Buster in 1966, involving toys that could be controlled similarly to General Jumbo

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• Ant Wars - a slightly silly action strip involving battle with enormously mutated South American ants
• Gaunt - set in World War II, about an unbalanced 'hard man' given a superhumanly strong artificial hand to replace one lost during Nazi torture
• M.A.C.H. 1 - an action strip about a British super-agent
• M.A.C.H. Zero - a prequel to M.A.C.H.1

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• The Thirteenth Floor
• The Monster

Strips absorbed from Tiger included: Max The Computer, as depicted by Ortiz The Thirteenth Floor was a comic strip originally published in the British horror comic book Scream! from March 24, 1984, and also in Eagle when Scream! was absorbed into it. ...

• Billy's Boots - about a boy football player who owned the boots of the legendary Dead-Shot Keen, which made him an unbeatable player
• Death Wish - about disfigured race driver Blake Edmonds, who undertook extremely dangerous adventures and stunts as he felt he had nothing to lose
• Golden Boy - an extremely gifted athlete who grew up in a feral state on isolated moorland
• Star Rider - an alien who stayed on Earth to compete in BMX championships
• One-Eyed Jack - yet another 'hard man' cop, set in New York and wearing an eyepatch

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• Charley's War - a critically acclaimed, and meticulously researched, fictionalised account of World War I
• Johnny Red - a World War II Russian fighter pilot
• Storm Force - a non-stop action strip about a squad of elite anti-terrorist warriors, inspired by Action Force

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Strips absorbed from Wildcat included:

• Joe Alien
• Kitten Magee
• Loner
• Turbo Jones
• Wildcat Complete

Glossy relaunch

With the issue dated May 5, 1990, Eagle relaunched yet again due to falling sales caused by the changing market. The relaunched comic contained fewer strips, all in colour, with large amounts of celebrity and pop music-related content. Oddly, strips seemed to either be aimed at infant school children, involving slapstick and simplistic humour, or mature adolescents similar to 2000 AD's Crisis tackling homelessness, sex, and profanity. May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ... A celebrity is a widely-recognized or famous person who commands a high degree of public and media attention. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated physical violence. ... Crisis was a British comic published from 1988 to 1991 as an experiment by Fleetway Publications to see if intelligent, mature, politically and socially aware comics were saleable in the United Kingdom. ... Look up Profanity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Strips during this period included:

• A rebooted Dan Dare, attempting to return to the thematic roots of the character
• Beast! - a short-lived horror strip about a demonic creature terrorising a fairground
• The Eagle One-off - another 'story of the week' strip
• Dark Angels - a mature strip about teenaged skateboarding vigilantes
• Mask of Evil- another short-lived strip about a mask that forced its wearer to commit immoral acts
• Mowser
• My Pet Alien
• Rat Trap - a childish strip about a serial burglar, Dr. Ratty Rat (though exactly what he was a doctor of was never revealed), who looked like a rat, with a powerful sonic rasp --- readers would send in extravagant plans to trap him (e.g. 'feed him enough chocolate so he can't move so you can arrest him'), which would be executed by B.I.F.F.F. (British Institute For Foiling Felonies) but always failed (e.g. he would use his rasp to blow open the doors of the police van and escape)

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Monthly anthology

Around 1992, Eagle moved to a monthly anthology format after being unable to shore up sales. There was very little new content, consisting mostly of reprinted Eagle strips. Publication quietly ceased in January 1994. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

External links

• Site about the first volume
• Another site about the first volume
• Marcus Morris's account of the beginnings of the Eagle
• The Eagle Archive
• An illustrated history of the Dan Dare character from both volumes
• Various characters from the second volume at the International Hero site
• 9 complete Dan Dare stories reprinted from the yearly Annuals books