EAGLE Comic - Vol 19 11 - 16th Mar 1968-Featuring Dan Dare - Vintage UK Comic- Hulton Press

EAGLE Comic - Vol 19 11 - 16th Mar 1968-Featuring Dan Dare - Vintage UK Comic- Hulton Press

Eagle was a British boys comic, founded by Reverend John Marcus Harston Morris, a former RAF chaplain.

Morris decided to create a more wholesome alternative to the US comics enlisting artist and writer Frank Hampson. Hulton Press picked the title up. Hampson's wife provided the comic's title, Eagle, and Morris became the founding editor.

The first issue went on sale on 14th March 1950, and proved an immediate success.

Eagle ran for twenty years, changing publishers a couple of times, first to Odhams Press and eventually to IPC's ownership.

Sales eventually dropped, and its final issue was Vol.20 No.17 (the 991st issue). A week later it merged with Lion.

The issue numbering for Eagle reset to 1 each year, so the last issue of 1958 was volume 9 issue 52
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Comic has been read and is in used but very good condition

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