List of Eagle comic strips

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This is a list of comic strips printed within the pages of Eagle, a seminal British children's comic first published from 1950 to 1969, and then in a relaunched format from 1982 to 1994.

1950–1969[]

Adventure[]

Humour[]

Literary adaptations[]

  • "The Lost World (Conan Doyle novel)", illustrated by Martin Aitchison
  • "[Condensed adaptation of C.S. Forester's trilogy of 'Happy Return' (1937),'Ship of the Line' (1938) & 'Flying Colours'(also 1938), which were 6th, 7th & 8th in the Hornblower saga according to chronological sequence]", illustrated by Martin Aitchison

Biography[]

  • "", illustrated by
  • "", written by (as Alan Jason) and illustrated by , 1954
  • "" (Sir Walter Raleigh), written by Marcus Morris and and illustrated by Robert Ayton, 1961
  • "" (Lord Nelson), illustrated by and Robert Ayton, 1957
  • "" (Winston Churchill), written by and illustrated by Frank Bellamy
  • "", written by (as Alan Jason) and illustrated by , 1955
  • "", written by and illustrated by Frank Bellamy
  • "", written by Chad Varah and illustrated by Frank Bellamy
  • "", written by and illustrated by

Bible stories[]

Reprints[]

1982–1994[]

Photo strips[]

  • The Collector – one-off morality tales based around items owned by The Collector
  • Doomlord – Eagle's most popular strip, a saga about a shape-changing alien sentencing humanity to death, but being replaced by another alien who served as Earth's protector. It later featured drawn artwork.
  •  – another half-page cartoon featuring a Charlie Chaplin-type character
  •  – about a schoolboy who could become invisible
  • Joe Soap – a comedy strip about an incompetent private detective
  • Manix – an action strip about a robot secret agent. Later drawn.
  •  – a western strip featuring a bounty hunter
  • Sgt. Streetwise – an undercover sergeant who used disguise to catch criminals
  • Thunderbolt and Smokey! – about two schoolboys creating their own football team
  •  – a survival story about children in a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness

Hand-drawn strips[]

  •  – a "story of the week" strip where readers sent in codes that loaded that week's story
  •  – a vigilante with a day job as a teacher
  • Bloodfang – initially a naturalistic tale relating the life of a Tyrannosaur, who was later captured by time-travelling bounty hunters and shipped to a zoo in the 22nd century
  •  – the tale of twins, one regressed to a "caveman" state due to an industrial accident, trying to locate their family
  • Computer Warrior, initially known as Ultimate Warrior – a popular and long-lived strip featuring a boy who could play computer games for real using a "real life code"
  •  – yet another incarnation of the 'hard man' formula, this time with the central character as a member of the KGB rooting out internal corruption
  •  – the adventures of a group of comprehensive schoolchildren
  •  – Dial A Dawn Destructor, a group of rock stars, Dawn Destruction, who solved crimes during the night
  • Dan Dare, initially illustrated by Gerry Embleton, then Ian Kennedy after a brief stint by Oli Frey – notable for being a drawn strip, in lavish colour
  •  – a humorous strip about a robot detective in 22nd-century London
  •  – a strip about three young would-be entrepreneurs who will do anything for ready cash
  • Ernie – a short (usually three panels) comedy cartoon featuring a hapless eagle, Eagle's mascot
  •  – a drawn strip, initially[citation needed] about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, becoming a story about an alien computer attempting world domination
  •  – about an amateur boxer overcoming adversity to become world champion
  •  – a spin-off of (below), about a squad of ghost detectives
  • (Scorpio) – a drawn strip about a 'hard man', with the gimmick of its initial run in Stereoscopic 3D
  • , also known as Clovis and Chowdhary – generic 'hard men' strip about two MI5 agents blackmailed into performing secret missions
  •  – about a freelance photographer who loses a hand in an accident. When his hand is replaced by dead gangster's, it starts to control him
  •  – set in a Nazi concentration camp
  •  – set in World War II
  • The House of Daemon – a strip involving characters trying to escape a haunted house
  •  – a science fiction strip where, as all future wars are fought on the Moon, Earth is largely deserted and children must become the police
  •  – a toy merchandising tie-in, about a war of robots built from building blocks similar to Meccano or Lego
  • Manta Force – a toy merchandising tie-in, about a group of who end up in a civil war on their new home. The strip was notable for the colony ship/toy appearing roughly the size of a supermarket yet supposedly containing thousands of troops, tanks and equipment stowed away for the duration of its voyage
  • M.A.S.K. – a toy merchandising tie-in, about the members of MASK fighting their arch-enemies VENOM with the aid of hi-tech masks and transforming combat vehicles
  •  – a group of investigative reporters undertaking adventures in war-torn countries and similarly dangerous locations
  • Roadblasters – a toy merchandising tie-in, about organised racing across an entire planet
  • Robo Machines – a toy merchandising tie-in, about the battle of good and evil by sentient shapeshifting robots, similar to Transformers, but based on Bandai's British version of Gobots.
  •  – a strip about a wandering police dog, similar to Lassie but with more violence
  •  – a secret division of Scotland Yard dedicated to investigating supernatural crimes
  •  – a strip from the back catalogue of Battle about a group of crack undercover soldiers, continued with new material
  •  – a science fiction strip about a group of children struggling to survive in a world where every adult has died of plague. The strip is remarkably similar to , which got its parent comic Action banned due to its continual and senseless violence
  • The Tower King – set in a modern-day London reduced to medieval anarchy
  •  – a sequel of a frequently reprinted multi-part horror strip originally seen in Buster in 1966, involving toys that could be controlled similarly to General Jumbo

Reprinted from 2000 AD[]

  • Ant Wars – an action strip involving battle with enormously mutated South American ants
  • M.A.C.H. 1 – an action strip about a British super-agent
  • M.A.C.H. Zero – a prequel to M.A.C.H.1

Absorbed from Scream![]

Absorbed from Tiger[]

  • Billy's Boots – about a boy footballer who owned the boots of the legendary Dead-Shot Keen, which made him an unbeatable player
  •  – about disfigured race driver Blake Edmonds, who undertook extremely dangerous adventures and stunts as he felt he had nothing to lose
  •  – an extremely gifted athlete who grew up in a feral state on isolated moorland
  • Star Rider – an alien who stayed on Earth to compete in BMX championships

Absorbed from Battle[]

  • Charley's War – a critically acclaimed, and meticulously researched, fictionalised account of World War I
  •  – a World War II British fighter pilot who fights alongside the Russian army
  •  – a non-stop action strip about a squad of elite anti-terrorist warriors, inspired by Action Force
  •  – set in World War II, about an unbalanced "hard man" given a superhumanly strong artificial hand to replace one lost during torture
  • One-Eyed Jack – yet another "hard man" cop, wearing an eyepatch. The series, set in New York, was created by John Wagner and provided inspiration for Wagner's Judge Dredd.

Absorbed from Wildcat[]

  • Turbo Jones

1990 relaunch[]

  • A rebooted Dan Dare, attempting to return to the thematic roots of the character
  •  – a short-lived horror strip about a demonic creature terrorising a fairground
  •  – another 'story of the week' strip
  •  – a mature strip about teenaged skateboarding vigilantes
  •  – another short-lived strip about a mask that forced its wearer to commit immoral acts
  • Mowser
  •  – a strip about a serial burglar, Dr. Ratty Rat (though exactly what he was a doctor of was never revealed), who looked like a rat, with a powerful sonic rasp. Readers would send in extravagant plans to trap him (e.g. "feed him enough chocolate so he can't move so you can arrest him"), which would be executed by B.I.F.F.F. (British Institute For Foiling Felonies) but always failed (e.g. he would use his rasp to blow open the doors of the police van and escape).

References[]

  1. ^ John McLusky on Lambiek Comiclopedia
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Frank Humphris on Lambiek Comiclopedia
  3. ^ Don Lawrence on Lambiek Comiclopedia
  4. ^ The Guinea Pig at International Hero
  5. ^ The Iron Man at International Hero
  6. ^ Smokeman at International Hero
  7. ^ Tommy Walls at International Hero

External links[]

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