Eagle Annual The Best Of The 1950's Comic

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Packed with great new strips, stories & articles, the full-colour Eagle comic landed in the grey post-war gloom of Britain in April 1950. It lit up schoolboys' lives across the land with features on hobbies, sporting personalities & space travel. Weekly features included the resident Professor Brittain explaining radar (in the first issue; he'd later go on to tackle particle theory, splitting the atom & the inside of a London Underground ticket machine), & the legendarily detailed cutaways. The first cutaway featured a jet-black ' New Gas Turbine-Electric Locomotive' emerging at speed from a tunnel; later everything from the manufacturing of ice cream to the workings of the Quebec Bridge would be forensically dissected in beautiful Super-8 colour. Other stalwarts included PC49, Harris Tweed & Jeff Arnold (basically Dan Dare in a checked shirt & cowboy hat). There was also the intrepid Mac Donald Hastings
- a willing knife-thrower's target & human firework, &, of course, the greatest comic strip of all time: Dan Dare, Frank Hampson's painfully detailed Pilot of the Future...