Heroes! The British invasion of American comics - part 3

Recently (ish!) finished at the Cartoon Museum (here)was their exhibition 'Heroes! The British invasion of American comics'. 

For anyone who couldn't make it here's part 3 of my look at what you missed...

Part 1 was here

Part 2 was here

Eagle - 14th March 1964

Recently (here) I looked at a 'pay copy' of an Eagle annual, well here's something very similar - a pay copy of a 1964 issue of Eagle

art by Keith Watson; script by David Motton

art by Gerald Palmer

script by J. Edgar; art by Paul Trevillion

pistol artwork by John Batchelor; fishing script by WD Keal; other script by Dinah Lawrence

Script by George Beardmore; art by Ron Embleton

Script & artwork by Grestock & Marsh (might be an art agency rather than a pair of contributors)

artwork by Frank Humphris; script b EG Cowan

Eaglecon 80 - part 5

It occurs to me that I've not covered anything to do with the very first Eagle comic convention - Eaglecon 80. A recent sale by ace ebay seller phil-comics (here) of one of the awards from Eaglecon 80 (see below) for £155 has inspired me to start looking images.

I looked at some initial images here

We had images about what was on display here

images of the original art that was on display here

the banquet dinner here

All these images are from the late, great Eagle & Dan Dare historian Adrian Perkins.

And now we have images from the panels that were held as part of the convention 

Alan Vince interviews Frank Hampson

Alan Vince talks to Charles Chilton (centre) and Frank Humphris (right)

Charles Chilton (centre) and Frank Humphris (right)

photo restored by Allan Harvey...

Frank Humphris (left) and Charles Chilton (right) 

Adrian Perkins (left) and Macdonald Hastings (right)

Marcus Morris (standing) at the opening session

Adrian Perkins (standing) at the opening session

panel discussion

UPDATED: Eagle comic free gifts

For ages, I've wanted to track down images of all the free gifts that were presented with the original Eagle comic.

The list below is taken from Cliff Wanford's 'Eagle collectors handbook' and is my guide to what's out there to collect...

Right then let's see what we can find...all updates highlighted in red

Volume 2, issue #34 (2/34) - Christmas catalogue






Volume 2/35 - Christmas catalogue
assume same as above

Volume 3/33 - Christmas supplement
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Volume 4/8 - Coronation supplement
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Volume 4/23 (11/09/53) - Eagle extra

Volume 4/24 (18/09/53) - Eagle extra

Volume 4/25 (25/09/53) - Eagle extra

Volume 4/26 (02/10/53) - Eagle extra

Volume 4/27 (09/10/53) - Eagle extra

Volume 4/28 (16/10/53) - Eagle extra

Volume 4/29 (23/10/53) - Eagle extra

Volume 4/30 (30/10/53) - Eagle extra

Volume 4/31 (06/11/53) - Eagle extra

Volume 4/32 (13/11/53) - Eagle extra

Volume 4/33 (20/11/53) - Christmas supplement
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Volume 4/34 (27/11/53) - Christmas supplement
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Volume 4/35 (04/12/53) - Christmas supplement
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Volume 5/47 - Christmas supplement
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Volume 5/48 - Christmas supplement
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Volume 5/49 - Christmas supplement
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Volume 6/47 - Christmas supplement
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Volume 6/48 - Christmas supplement
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Volume 6/49 - Christmas supplement
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Volume 7/47 - Christmas supplement
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Volume 7/48 - Christmas supplement
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Volume 7/49 - Christmas supplement
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Volume 11/11 (09/03/60) - Passport to adventure wallet

Volume 11/12 (16/03/60) - supplement - world transport (cut and fold booklet)

Volume 11/13 (23/03/60)- supplement - space (cut and fold booklet)

Volume 11/14 (30/03/60) - supplement - the real wild west (cut and fold booklet)

Volume 11/15 (06/04/60) - supplement - underwater world (cut and fold booklet)

Volume 12/5 (04/02/61) - supplement - post office (cut and fold booklet)

Volume 13/10 - Marvels of this modern age album (with 12 cards)

Volume 13/30 - Holiday extra supplement
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Volume 14/10 - wallet of soccer cards

Volume 15/8 (22/02/64) - Roger Moore tells you how to be a detective

Volume 15/23 - model glider

Volume 15/41 - 4 Olympic medals
these were free with the issue dated 10th October 1964; Boys' World had closed on 3rd October 1964 (and been merged into Eagle) and there clearly wasn't time to re-brand the free gift

Volume 15/42 - The Olympic games supplement

Volume 15/43 - pocket chess and draughts set

Volume 15/44 - Eagle indoor games [chess variants, fox & geese and a colour Dan Dare battle game]

Volume 16/1 - sporting records booklet
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Volume 16/27 - On Europe supplement
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Volume 16/41 - Get going with Eagle supplement - 1. getting into sport
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Volume 16/42 - Get going with Eagle supplement - 2. getting into sport
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Volume 16/43 - Get going with Eagle supplement - 3. getting into sport
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Volume 16/44 - Get going with Eagle supplement - 4. getting into sport
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Volume 16/45 - Get going with Eagle supplement - 5. road safety
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Volume 16/46 - Get going with Eagle supplement - 6. space
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Volume 17/3 [15/01/66] - flashing morse transmitter



Volume 17/4 - the world of signals supplement
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Volume 17/6 - the world of espionage supplement
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Volume 17/21 - the GPO tower supplement
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Volume 19/4 (27/01/68) - super cut-out model of Ford Escort car

Volume 19/5 (03/02/68) - super cut-out model of Ford Escort car