About the Book
This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Eagle artists, Eagle strips, Eagle writers, New Eagle artists, New Eagle editors, New Eagle strips, New Eagle writers, Eagle, Bruce Cornwell, C. L. Doughty, Colin Andrew, Don Harley, Don Lawrence, Dudley Pout, Eric Eden, Frank Bellamy, Frank Hampson, Frank Humphris, G. William Backhouse, Gerry Embleton, Greta Tomlinson, Harold Johns, Joan Porter, John McLusky, Keith Watson, Martin Aitchison, Paddy Nevin, Paul Trevillion, Robert Ayton, Ron Embleton, Terry Maloney, Dan Dare, Fraser of Africa, Luck of the Legion, Charles Chilton, Don Freeman, Eric Eden, Frank Hampson, Geoffrey Bond, George Beardmore, Marcus Morris, Peter Ling, Ted Cowan, Tom Tully, Eric Bradbury, Gerry Embleton, John Cooper, Keith Watson, Mike Dorey, Mike Western, Patrick Wright, David Hunt, Dan Dare, Alan Grant, Alan Hebden, Gerry Finley-Day, John Wagner, Pat Mills, Scott Goodall, Tom Tully. Excerpt: Eagle was a weekly comic that ran from 1950 to 1969. Its best-known features were Dan Dare and Captain Pugwash. The comic was conceived as a wholesome counterpoint to imported American comics, which creator Reverend Marcus Morris had railed against in a Sunday Dispatch piece entitled "Comics that bring Horror into the Nursery." Morris and local artist Frank Hampson hit on the idea of creating a more moral strip for the Sunday Empire' titled Lex Christian, about an adventurous parson in the slums of London. However, these plans were derailed by the death of the paper's editor, and the two creators instead decided to publish a complete comic book. Hiring a team of artists and writers from Southport they put together a dummy issue; this was picked up by Hulton Press and Eagle arrived on 14 April 1950. The comic was a great success and, one year after its debut, spawned a sister title aimed at girls, titled simply Girl (Robin, for younger kids, came in 1953, and final tie-in Swift popped up in 1954). 1957 saw...
