Talk:Eagle (British comics)/Archive 1

1950s vs 1980s
This seems to have far more about the (in my view much less important) 1980s version than the original.

The comment "The Eagle was re-launched by IPC (later Fleetway) on 27 March 1982, aiming for the same quality end of the comic-reading market." seems hard to justify in view of the actual product.

-- Beardo 13:15, 3 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I totally agree, Beardo. I would like to see much more emphasis placed upon the classic original version (indeed, it IS a classic!), and less on the more recent incarnations. I guess there just may be more readers (and contributors) around who remember the newer versions.


 * I'm not sure who had the idea of 'First Volume', 'Second Volume', etc. - that may be a convenient way of categorising for collectors, but it is in no way authentic - I don't remember the 'Eagle' ever using that nomenclature.


 * Perhaps we're just going to have to write a lot more about the original! -- Agendum 19:51, 3 May 2006 (UTC)


 * In fact, the original Eagle did use volumes - so would have reached volume 20 when it merged into Lion. (I don't have easy access to my copies). So this usage is wrong.


 * Original version and Revived version ? -- Beardo 22:27, 3 May 2006 (UTC)


 * That certainly sounds better. -- Agendum 23:12, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Peter Ling
Does anyone know whether the Peter Ling who wrote the "Three Js" stories that appeared in Eagle in the late 1950s/early 1960s is the same Peter Ling who has a Wiki entry?

JH 16:15, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Looking at the dates and the programmes he worked on, it seems quite likely - but I guess we need more than that. – Agendum 00:05, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

That Peter Ling has just died, and his obituary appeared in today's Times:, but unfortunately it doesn't mention anything about his having written for Eagle. JH 20:21, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I've now found a page that makes the link between the "famous" Peter Ling and Eagle. Unfortunately it's a cached Google page, so the address is a bit unwieldy:

I also discovered that there was a Three J's novel. JH 20:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)


 * That page is also at http://www.crossroadsappreciationsociety.org.uk/, whilst here's an Amazon link for the book http://www.amazon.co.uk/three-Pride-Northbrook-Eagle-Novels/dp/B0000CJT0Y/sr=1-24/qid=1158907643/ref=sr_1_24/202-4805619-7954219?ie=UTF8&s=books -- Beardo 06:43, 22 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Peter Ling's obituary has at last appeared in the Daily Telegraph, and it mentions that he wrote for Eagle in passing, almost at the end of the artiicle: JH 17:34, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

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Article rewrite
This article needs a clean up and re-write. The structure of the sections are disrupted with the seemingly endless list of comic strip titles. This information should be written in prose. There are also a large number of red links all over. These should be considered for removal as they just make the article messy looking.

I noticed that there was previous discussions about concentrating on the "classic" Eagle over the 1908s version. While we all have our favourites we must remain neutral and write about the Eagle incarnations evenly throughout. -- Nreive (talk) 14:23, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

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 * Done - needs more references. (Emperor (talk) 18:53, 18 September 2008 (UTC))

Some memories
There were some other stock characters in the Dan Dare strip. His batman was the rotund Digby but there was also a good looking professor Peabody,. With her good looks and long hair she rather softened a very masculine strip. Don't forget Great Aunt Anastasia who had a Dan Dare spaceship named after her.

I rather lost track of the series when Dan Dare was well into a long running serial to find his father who had been lost on a space journey to a particular star.

I also seem to recall a cowboy series, "Jeff Arnold" who had an English lord as at least an occasional acquaintance.

There was also a bungling detective strip "Harris Tweed" with his minor assistant who always sorted things out


 * This page has long been on my watchlist, and will one day receive a bit of attention. The Eagle was a boy's comic that deserves FA status. Parrot of Doom 15:23, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Eagle and Lion
Before the Eagle combined with the Lion, the lead story in Lion was a space series "Captain Condor" .He had a long running war, from his base on Mimas, with the Dictator of the World. The Dictator had all the resources including a huge "atom smasher".

Eventually Captian Condor mounted a final attack on the HQ of the Dictator with the aid of a space ship that looked a lot like a centipede and robots made made from a special metal invented by his sidekick, another professor.

Not very long after this "Roy of the Rovers" made an appearance as an inside short feature. Then for reasons now unknown Captain Condor became an inside feature with Roy of the Rovers as main cover feature. Captain Condor gradually disappeared even from the inside pages.

The contrast could hardly be greater with the imagination ispiring space adventures being replaced by a ball kicking series. At this stage I asked my parents for some other publication.