Eagle annual #5 - pay copy

A real one off here. Yes it's a 'pay copy' of Eagle annual #5. That is, it's a copy of the annual marked up with who was paid (and how much they were paid) for each page of the annual. I've seen copies of comics that were 'pay copies' but this was the first time I'd seen an annual.

Anyway, for posterity, here are some images from the annual. Sometimes the writer/artist is credited and sometimes it's their agent.

All images are c/o Gray Newell [with thanks to Norman Boyd for reminding me]. 

John Ryan's Harris Tweed in sporting action here 

The Imperial War Museum, R. Taylor and Frank Bellamy all contributed here

Art by Desmond Walduck; script by Alan Stranks

Art by Harry Bishop; script by Charles Chilton

More John Ryan (script & artwork)

David Langdon art (and script presumably)

Art by John Worsley; script by Alan Stranks (again)

Tesco fun n' games comic #3

My covers gallery of (Tesco) fun 'n games comic was last updated here - thanks to nabbing some images from ebay here's a detailed look at issue 3...

Tesco fun 'n games #3

Art by Don Harley

Art by John Worsley

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue #8

I've looked before at Tesco fun 'n games comic (here and here) so for the sake of completeness here are some more images - this time from issue 8...

UPDATED: Eagle, Girl, Swift "Match-the-pairs"

Friend of the blog Norman Boyd has kindly supplied me with some adverts from the original Eagle - I'll present a selection over the coming days, here's a few to get you going...all are from 1961 and are based around the "Match-the-pairs" from Quaker Puffed Wheat...updated material is in red

Original Eagle artist John "PC49" Worsley also draws an advert...

Nick Symes posts on youtube (here) so why not check out some of his videos about cereal packet collectables? He's kindly sent me the image (below) of what the actual cereal packet looked like

Eagle adverts - part 2

Friend of the blog Norman Boyd has kindly supplied me with some adverts from the original Eagle - I'll present a selection over the coming days, here's a few to get you going...all are from 1961 and are based around the "Match-the-pairs" from Quaker Puffed Wheat...

Original Eagle artist John "PC49" Worsley also draws an advert...

John 'PC49' Worsley - maritime art for sale

I'm used to thinking of John Worsley as the artist on the PC49 strip in the original Eagle comic, of course as a professional illustrator he worked in a number of different fields - he worked as a courtroom artist and illustrated Wind in the Willows books - so that's not a bad range.

What we see less often is, as his Wikipedia entry (here) highlights, the work that led him to be president of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. Luckily there's a stunning painting currently on sale on ebay here (auction ends Monday lunchtime) that shows this side of his work off perfectly...

Bidding starts at £2,000 for this painting of the Royal Yacht Britannia (and 2 initial water colour trials).

It's a world away from the grime and crime of PC49's London but it's a fantastic piece. Price is a bit high for me but if you've got the cash to splash then good luck to you.

Some of the PC49 annual that John Worsley provided illustrations for...

I met John Worsley at the Eagle Society annual 'do' in 1997 - here's his autograph...I must have some photos of that somewhere, will see if I can dig them out...