Summer 2018 Contents

• 'Charles Chilton & the Indian Wars' - The 1^st part of an in-depth series dealing with Native Americans and how they were interpreted in Riders of the Range.
• ‘Thoughts on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’ – Thoughts on the life of the famous author and his only story to appear in the Eagle, The Lost World.
• ‘Newly Discovered Dan Dare Reference Material’ – A couple of examples of newly discovered Dan Dare concept sketches.
• ‘The Eagle Society Annual Gathering 2018’ – A fun and in-depth report of the dinner.  All the talks and activities are covered with plenty of photographs.  This year it was held at the Hilton in Leicester.
• ‘Dundee: Venue for the Eagle Society Dinner 2019’ – This article gives us a flavour of what the city will be able to offer the Eagle Society during their visit next year.  It mentions a number of the major attractions that will be available.
• ‘Connaught Racing Cars: 1948 to 1957’ – An article on the Connaught company and how the Connaught B-Type centre spread fuelled a passion in the author for their cars.
• 'In and Out of the Eagle' - more instalments in the series that presents Eagle-related snippets
• 'Space Fiction Movies in Eagle's Times' part 5 - continuing a look at films about space exploration and alien visitations to the earth, the bread-and-butter of the Eagle's Dan Dare adventures between 1950 and 1969. This part covers 1963-65 and includes (among others) Ikarie XB-1, The Day Mars Invaded Earth, First Men in the Moon, Unearthly Stranger and Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster.
• ‘The Case of the Educated Archie – Part 2’ - an Adventure of Archie Berkeley-Willoughby of Scotland Yard. A new story inspired by the character created by Alan Stranks for his radio show P.C.49
• ‘Whatever Happened to My Ten Percent’ – The text from one of the most anticipated fun talks of this years Eagle Society dinner.  It wonderfully covers various topics including King Richard III being found in Leicester, is humankind actually regressing and many more.

• 'Life after Eagle' - a recollection of the merged Lion and Eagle from 1969 - 1970 - where 'Dan Dare' lived on for a while, albeit as repeats and in black-and-white 
• 'Hulton's Boys and Girls Exhibition: 1959' - a look at the programme of the fourth Hulton's Boys and Girls Exhibition, held at London's Olympia in August 1959
• 'Remembering Dan Dare: The Mushroom' - a re-look at a 'Dan Dare' story from Eagle in the mid-1960s, which was drawn by Keith Watson
• 'Playful Stories were Frank’s preferred way' of writing - a look at the humour that Frank Hampson worked into the early stories of 'Dan Dare'  
• 'Leo Baxendale (1930 - 2017)' - an obituary of the comic genius who created The Beano's 'Bash Street Kids' and so many other wonderful characters for D.C. Thompson and I.P.C. including 'Danny Dare' for Wham! 
• 'The Shepherd King', part 2 of a three-part examination of Clifford Makins' and Frank Bellamy's strip about the biblical King David, comparing Eagle's strip with biblical accounts of David's life
• 'Eagle Society Gathering, 2017': A photo-illustrated report on this year's Eagle Society Annual Gathering and Dinner, which were held in April at The Queen Hotel, Chester
• 'In and Out of the Eagle': Two further instalments in the series presenting collections of Eagle-related snippets
• He Tried to Stop You Reading Eagle - Leonard Matthews', part 3: concluding the three-part adjunct to the series, 'They Helped to Bring You Eagle'
• 'The Road of Courage' - an appreciation and an ethnic criticism of Eagle's back-page story of Jesus as told by Marcus Morris and drawn by Frank Hampson 
• 'Space Fiction Movies in Eagle’s Times', part 2: a look at films about space exploration and alien visitations to the earth, the bread-and-butter of the Eagle's Dan Dare's adventures between 1950 and 1969. This part covers 1954-1956, including Conquest of Space, and Forbidden Planet
• 'Nelson’s Ladies' - a follow-up to the article on Eagle's story of Nelson, The Great Sailor, in the Spring 2016 issue, this takes look at Nelson's women as depicted in Comet in 1955 and later in Thriller Picture Library 
• 'PC 49’s Last Case', part 1 - beginning a new story, based on the characters originally created for the radio series by Alan Stranks 
• 'Dan Dare - Requiem, Revival or Reboot'? Is it time to say goodbye to Frank Hampson's creation, or time to try something new? 
• Two Tributes: Martin Aitchison and Howard Corn 
• 'Eagle Times - What’s Next?' As we near the completion of 30 years of Eagle Times, the editors seeks the views of members on the future of the Eagle Society's journal

• 'The Adventures of Tintin: King Ottokar's Sceptre' - a comparison of three editions of Herge's picture strip story: the 1947 book by Casterman of Paris, its first publication in English in Eagle in 1950, and the later edition, by Methuen (in a different translation) in 1958
• 'Man of Courage' - part 2, concluding an examination of Eagle's strip about the life of St. Vincent de Paul, and its "mystery" writer, Francis Dickson, alias "R.B. Saxe"
• 'Dan Dare Storyboard 1950' - on a recently acquired original board for one of the Dan Dare film strips based on the first Venus story and produced in the 1950s by Martin Lucas Ltd as part of their Mini Cine range
• 'PC49 and the Case of the Purple Holdall' - the latest Eagle Times adaptation of a PC49 radio story, originally written by Alan Stranks
• 'The Devil's Henchmen' - an examination of the seven-episode black-and white western strip that appeared in Eagle in 1962, drawn by the former 'Riders of the Range' artist, Frank Humphris
• 'As Drawn by Ashwell Wood: Some Dan Dare Era Spaceships' - on the space-related artwork of Leslie Ashwell Wood, Eagle's most prolific cutaway artist, featuring work from Eagle (1954), the Dan Dare Spacebook (1952) and his Inside Information series (1970)
• 'Eagle's Special Investigator Macdonald "Mac" Hastings' - on the life of Eagle's well-known journalist, whose written works outside Eagle included a series of mystery novels featuring an investigator called Montague Cork
• 'From Ruislip to Troy' - a look at the long and varied career of the former 'Garth' artist, Martin Asbury
• 'The Eagle Society Annual Gathering 2016' - a report on the Society's visit to Donnington Manor Hotel in Sevenoaks, Kent, where the theme was 'Great Lives of Eagle', and visits were made to Chartwell (Winston Churchill's former home) and Quebec House, Westerham (former home of General James Wolfe)
• 'In and Out of the Eagle': some more episodes in the series presenting collections of Eagle-related snippets
• 'They Helped to Bring You Eagle: No. 2 Bruce Smith' - the layout artist and creative letter-heading artist, who worked on Eagle in the 1960s
• 'Rivals of Jeff Arnold: Tex Ritter' - the cowboy singer and film star, who featured in comic books published by Fawcett and Charlton Comics

Summer 2015 Contents

• 'Mark, The Youngest Disciple' - an examination of the background to Chad Varah's version of the events surrounding the Passion of Jesus, which appeared in Eagle between November 1954 and June 1955, drawn by Giorgio Bellavitis
• 'Over to You, Joan' - some memories and insights into the Frank Hampson Studio, and the part played by Joan Porter as Hampson's assistant
• 'Chicko' - an examination of three-panel comic strip by Norman Thelwell, featuring the longest-running character in Eagle after Dan Dare 
• 'Saturday Morning at the Pictures, No 3: King of the Rocket Men' - another in the series looking at Saturday children's cinema matinees of the 1950s 
• 'In and Out of the Eagle' - more in the series presenting collections of Eagle-related snippets
• 'PC49 and the Cases of Stolen Liquour' - another in the series of PC49 stories adapted from Alan Stranks' BBC radio stories
• 'Centrespreads: The Journey into Space Connection' - on the artist Gordon Davies, who drew cutaway drawings for Eagle's centre pages, and book covers, including those for Pan Books' Journey into Space paperbacks
• 'Rivals of Jeff Arnold No 16: Lash LaRue ' - the appearance of the western film star in movies and comics
• 'Looking for L. Ashwell Wood' - Joan Porter recalls an episode from the early 1950s when, on press day, she went in search of the cutaway artist and his urgently needed artwork
• 'The Solid Space Mystery' -  a re-look at the 'Dan Dare' story from Eagle, which was drawn by Don Harley and Bruce Cornwell, and kicked off in the last issue of 1960
• 'They Helped to Bring You Eagle: No. 1 Bert Fielder' - the first in a new series, which begins with one of the less well-known people who worked on Eagle in the 1960s
• 'The Dan Dare Dandies' - on the civilian modes of dress and fashion in Eagle's 'Dan Dare'
• 'Yesterday's Tomorrow: A celebration of the launch of Eagle and the birth of Dan Dare' - a report on the one-day symposium held at the British Interplanetary Society on 14th April, 2015, the 65th anniversary of Eagle's launch  
• 'WPC56' - a review of the television series featuring a female police officer, set in the 1950s
• 'Anyone for Table Tennis?' - recollections of the Eagle and Girl Table Tennis Championships which were held between 1954 and 1964

• 'Chad Varah's uncredited written work for Eagle' - Although some of Chad Varah's contributions were given visible credit at the time of publication, others (including his script for the 'Dan Dare' story 'Marooned on Mercury') were not. This article reviews Chad's uncredited contributions to the early Eagle and to Eagle Annual. 
• 'In and Out of the Eagle' - another double dose of the series presenting collections of Eagle-related news snippets 
• 'PC49 and the Case of the Manilla Envelopes' - another text story adaptation from one of Alan Stranks' original radio plays about an East End "copper". 
• 'Navy Mints and Swizzels Matlow' - on the search for information about the advertising comic strip, featuring Minty, Fruity and Scotty, that appeared in Eagle from 1954, drawn by Roland Davies 
• 'Lost Eagle - the solution to the Eagle Force mystery' - in a follow-up article to the one he wrote for Eagle Times Vol 26 No 2, Jeremy Briggs finally tracks down the answers to questions that began in 2010 with some mysterious artwork that appeared in Daniel Tatarsky's Dan Dare: The Biography 
• 'Happy Days - Growing up in the fifties' - a member looks back at those supposedly grey days of austerity and recalls it as a more colourful time than many in the media might now suggest 
• 'An Eagle Mug Shot' - one of the first 1950s Eagle Club members who, at the age of 14, was awarded the "Mug of the Month" award by Eagle for taking care of the livestock when his farming father fell ill 
• 'Silver Eagler' - a 1956 recipient of the Silver Eagle Award. (Silver Eagle was the new name for Eagle's Mug of the Month award, from 1954) 
• 'The Eagle Society Annual Dinner, 2014' - a photo-illustrated report on activities at the Annual Gathering of the Eagle Society, which was held in April at St Albans, Herts. 
• 'War with the Sioux by Hollywood and Eagle' - comparing the story of "Custer's Last Stand", as told by Hollywood in The Great Sioux Massacre and Eagle in the 'Jeff Arnold' strip 'The War with the Sioux' 
• 'Dangerous Dreamer - The Eagle back page story that never was' - on the aborted strip about T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) that, had it not been cancelled, would have been drawn for Eagle by Jack Daniel 
• 'The Lost World' - a review of the adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous story that appeared in Eagle in 1962, scripted by Richard Jennings and drawn by Martin Aitchison 
• 'Southport Observatory' - an appeal regarding the restoration of the Great Astronomical Observatory in Hesketh Park in Southport, Eagle's birthplace 
• 'Eagle's other cereals' - the breakfast cereals that were advertised in Eagle during the 1950s and 1960s, and the interesting items (cut-outs, etc.) that featured on the backs of the packets 
• 'Marcus Morris and Eagle: approved reading for boys in the 1950s and 1960s' - a reprint (with permission) of an article by John Springhall that appeared in The Historian, the magazine of The Historical Association, in Summer 2013 
• 'The 1954 Horlicks Spaceship Offer' - on the special offers for 'Dan Dare' spaceship models that were available to exclusively to members of the Horlicks Spacemen's Club. (Horlicks were sponsors of the Dan Dare serial on Radio Luxembourg) 

• 'Leslie Ashwell Wood's 1953 Coronation Procession'. In the month during which Her Majesty celebrated the 60th Anniversary of her Coronation, Jeremy Briggs takes a look at the story behind one of Eagle's commemorative centre-page illustrations, 'Televising the Coronation Procession', illustrated with reference pictures and with Ashwell Wood's  previously unseen sketches

• 'The Spacesuit as Art' - Brett Gooden, author of the book Spacesuit: a History Through Fact and Fiction, explores the conceptual origins and development of spacesuit  illustrations as they appeared in science fiction books, comics and films

• 'The Fighting Cheyenne - Eagle v. Hollywood'. How the tragic story of the 1500 miles trek across America by Cheyenne Indians was portrayed in Eagle's 'Riders of the Range' story ‘Last of the Fighting Cheyenne’ and how John Ford's movie Cheyenne Autumn portrayed the same events

• 'Dan Dare in the Eagle Force Mystery' - Jeremy Briggs takes a look at the mystery surrounding some (supposedly) Dan Dare artwork, which appeared on the front endpaper of Daniel Tatarsky's Dan Dare: The Biography in 2010

• 'Johnny Frog' - Steve Winders takes a look at the final strip that George Beardmore wrote for Eagle, which ran in 1964, an historical b&w strip set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, and illustrated by Ron Embleton

• 'Paul Carpenter - the man who was Jeff Arnold', on the Canadian post-war actor, who played cowboy Jeff Arnold in Charles Chilton's Riders of the Range BBC radio show

• 'Mann of Battle' - in the second part of his article, about the Second World War adventure strip, which ran in Eagle from 1962-64, Steve Winders examines the Eagle Annual stories

• 'The Wrong Plane!!' - How an illustrated article on 'The Story of Flight', which appeared in Dan Dare's Space Annual 1963, included an aircraft recognition error

• 'Weston-Super-Dare' - how Dan Dare's Space Ship (towed by a donkey) arrived on the beach at Weston-Super-Mare in the 1950s

• 'PC49 and the Case of the Counterfeit Copper' - another of Alan Strank's famous BBC radio plays, specially adapted as a text story for Eagle Times

• A photo-illustrated report on the 2013 Eagle Society Gathering, held at Leamington Spa in April 2013

• 'The Hands of Gods' - a look at how three talented artists, Frank Hampson, Ron Embleton and Frank Bellamy each had his own way of drawing hands
• 'A. Bruce Cornwell (1920 - 2012)' - a tribute to the former 'Dan Dare' artist and illustrator who died in March, 2012. (See also the obituary on this blog)
• 'Rivals of Eagle' - the latest in the series takes a look at how Edgar Rice Burrough's jungle hero, Tarzan,  appeared in British comics in the 1950s Tarzan Adventures
• 'The Cutaway that Never Was' - on the absence from Eagle's Cutaway feature of the Gloster Javelin aircraft, which first flew in 1951
• 'A Look at Luck' - part 4 of a series examining the French Foreign Legion strip by Geoffrey Bond and Martin Aitchison, that ran in Eagle from 1952 - 1961
• 'Visual Memories of Eaglecon 80' - part 3 of an illustrated series remembering the only London comics convention ever held solely for Eagle enthusiasts
• 'Advertising in Eagle' - a look at the varied advertisements that apperared in Eagle magazine, including an article advertising Advertising!
• 'Dan Dare projected' - part 1, looking at the various projectors available form manufacturers in the 1950s, by which 'Dan Dare' and related film strips could be viewed.
• A report on the Eagle Society Gathering and Annual Dinner in Southport, 17th - 19th April, 2012
• A PC49 Radio script: 'The Case of the Haunting Refrain', reproducing a performance script from Alan Stranks' BBC radio show, part 1
• 'ABC Film Review' - a list of the various Eagle and Girl-related strips that featured in the ABC cinema chain's magazine in 1952-53
• 'Rivals of Jeff Arnold' - the tenth in this series takes a look at the real-life character Buck Jones and the western comics bearing his name, that appeated in the 1950s
• 'Closing the Circle: Another Odyssey for Dan Dare' - reviewing an article that appeared in the Adelaide students' magazine On Dit in 1969: '2001 revisited, or dissertations upon Dan Dare'
• 'Remembering Safari in Space' - a relook at the Dan Dare story that commenced in Eagle in 1959 

• Frank and the Newspaper Cuttings: a look at the use by Frank Hampson, throughout his career, of images of newspapers and newspaper cuttings, as a powerful visual aid to storytelling
• 'Daan Durf - Piloot van de Toekomst': on the 1980s Dutch reprint editions of the 'Dan Dare' adventures: De Mans Van Nergens (The Man From Nowhere) and De Woeste Planeet (Rogue Planet)
• Keith Watson - Drawing from Life: the use of live and photographed figures to achieve realism of the clothed human form
• Frank Bellamy's Pictorial Journalism: a look at some of Bellamy's illustrative work for newspapers, magazines and posters
• Dan Goes Back to College: a report on the unveiling of the bronze bust of Dan Dare at the Southport College of Art, following its recent restoration
• Rivals of Jeff Arnold - Buffalo Bill: part 7 of an ongoing series looking at the real and fictional Wild Western characters that appeared in British comics in the 1950s
• Eagle's Wanderers: an examination of two fictional football strips that appeared in Eagle. Part 1: 'Home of the Wanderers'
• Kemlo - the 'Spaceworld' books of E.C. Eliott: the life and work of Robert Martin, a prolific children's writer of the 1950s-1960s (who wrote the 'Joey' series under his own name, the 'Kemlo' and 'Tas' series as E.C. Elliott and the 'Pocomoto' western series as Rex Dixon), taking a close look at three of the 'Kemlo' series
• PC49 in the Case of the Crying Clown - part 2: concluding another adaptation of one of Alan Strank's famous BBC radio police adventures
• The David Pugh 'Dan Dare', part two: continuing an examination of the 'Dan Dare' stories drawn by one of the artists who took on the resurrected "original" Dan Dare in "new" Eagle 1989-1994
• Sammy, Swift's Space Fleet Cadet: Stripography - part 2, concluding the summary of the Space Fleet stories that appeared in Eagle's companion Paper
• 'The Final Frontier': an extract from Arnie Wilson's Big Name Hunting, in which he relates an interview with Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin

• A photo-illustrated report on the Eagle Society's April 2010 gathering  to celebrate Eagle's 60th Anniversary in Southport
• 'Scale-face speaks with Thorked tongue' - a look at the ways in which alien languages were treated in the Eagle's 'Dan Dare' saga
• 'Jim Stalwart' - part  2, covering story synopses and foreign reprints of this "forgotten" strip from 1954, drawn by Bruce Cornwell for Junior Mirror
• 'Eagle's "No!" to Frank Humphris' - describing how in 1962 the editor of Eagle rejected the idea from Britain's leading western artist for a 'True Stories of the West' series 
• 'I was There' - some third-party recollections of when, in 1980, space artist David Hardy met 'Dan Dare' creator Frank Hampson 
• 'More complaints from the Dustman?' A look at some of artist Ron Embleton's lesser known work
• 'Rivals of Jeff Arnold' - the latest in this series examines the depiction in films and British comic strip of the masked avenger - 'The Lone Ranger'
• 'What the papers say' - topical press coverage of Eagle's 60th Anniversary
• 'Plastic Ship Kits by Eaglewall' - a review of some of the "Authentic Plastic Assembly Kits" made by Eagle/Wall Plastics Ltd in the 1950s
• 'Haynes Apollo 11 Owners' Workshop Manual' - a review of the recently published book
• 'The Case of the Begging Girl' - a 'PC49' story adapted from Alan Stranks' radio play
• 'This is where we came in' - recollections of the origins and activities of the Astral Group 'Dan Dare' Club in the 1970s
• 'Eagle Annuals' - a fond look back and review of the first ten Eagle Annuals, published between 1951 to 1960
• 'Frank Bellamy's The Story World War 1' - a review  of the book which collects the series written by Michael Butterworth that was originally published in Look and Learn

• 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)