I am sure that the success of Eagle (a sell-out of 900,000copies of its first issue) was due to the insistance [sic] on quality. Where Eagle was concerned, the quality of the paper, printing, artwork and writing set a new standard. There were bright colours, well-drawn pictures and exciting stories. Technically, the Eagle strips marked an advance on the standards of that time (standards that had stood still for years) when most strips were not true strips but merely pictures with captions underneath.

Ramsden, John (January 1998), "Refocusing 'The People's War': British War Films of the 1950s", Journal of Contemporary History, Sage Publications, Ltd, hosted at jstor.org, 33 (1): 35–63, doi: 10.1177/003200949803300103, JSTOR 260996, S2CID 220066711 Eagle fan Ian Hartas has created an in-depth guide to the long-running Eagle annual over at www.EagleAnnual.info. Khoury, George (2004), True Brit: a celebration of the great comic book artists of the UK, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing, ISBN 978-1-893905-33-7

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Amidst a takeover of the periodical's publisher and a series of acrimonious disputes, Morris left in 1959; Hampson followed shortly thereafter. Although Eagle continued in various forms, a perceived lowering of editorial standards preceded plummeting sales, and it was eventually subsumed by its rival, Lion, in 1969. [5] Eagle was relaunched in 1982 and ran for over 500issues before being dropped by its publisher in 1994. if a character's popularity can be assessed by the amount of merchandising they attract then there can be no doubt that during the 1950s Dan Dare was far and away the most popular character going. [69] Correcting comic myths (1) – How many issues of Eagle were there?" at Boys Adventure Comics, 31 May 2018 It has to be readily conceded, this Dan Dare illustration is especially difficult to attribute. While I’d take a

Evans, Janet (1998), "What's in the picture?: responding to illustrations in picture books", Early Childhood Education Series, London: Sage, ISBN 978-1-85396-379-7 Lion was merged with Valiant in 1974, Valiant in turn was merged with Battle Picture Weekly in 1976, and finally Battle was merged into the revived Eagle in 1988. [5] In a sense, the new Eagle was descended from the old. Nicholls, Peter; Clute, John (1999), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, London: Orbit, ISBN 978-1-85723-897-6 Sources disagree on the precise date on which Hampson left the comic, and therefore this article remains ambiguous on the subject. The popularity of comics which depicted war faded after the end of the Second World War, and Eagle's previously unheard-of circulation figures helped define the content of most comics produced during the 1950s, including war. In contrast to other, earlier publications, Eagle attempted to educate the reader with factual, text-based historical stories, such as the life of Winston Churchill, as presented in "The Happy Warrior". A detailed account of the Second World War was given, while one strip lambasted German paratroopers, who on seeing British infantry below them, shouted "Donner und Blitzen! Der Englander!" [67] During the mid-1950s however, comics began sensationalising their covers with war imagery, and Eagle followed suit in the 1960s. [68]

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Bowler, Tim (29 December 2005), Dan Dare conquers the art market, news.bbc.co.uk , retrieved 19 June 2010 Over the last few years he has been browsing around numerous second-hand book shops re-creating his collection and also buying the newer volumes which he did not have the first time around. As he did, he discovered there were many companion annuals, which he has begun to collect. Eric Meredith from Chester was employed as technical adviser by the Eagle Comic as the 'Man from Eagle' who undertook daring stunts and wrote about his experiences in the comic. In the twentieth century it was standard practice in the British comics industry to merge a comic into another one when it declined in sales. Typically, a few stories from the cancelled comic would continue for a while in the surviving comic, and both titles would appear on the cover (one in a smaller font than the other) until the title of the cancelled comic was eventually dropped. In this way, two comics were merged with the original Eagle, Swift in 1963 and Boys' World in 1964, before the Eagle itself came to an end when it was merged with Lion in 1969. [5] Morris, Sally; Hallwood, Jan (1998), Living With Eagles: Marcus Morris, Priest and Publisher, Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, ISBN 978-0-7188-2982-7