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Post by MacNimon on Jul 7, 2011 6:37:34 GMT
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Post by Silver Age Fan on Jul 7, 2011 18:25:05 GMT
From 1982 until 1993, I bought every issue of Eagle with the exception of about three issues (which I couldn't find). What a comic, man!
The early issues were mainly photo-strips and informative articles (with perhaps a sports pin-up on the back). I'd like to think that in addition to being fun, the helped youngsters learn to read.
The 80s saw some fantastic strips such as Computer Warrior, about a boy who entered the games inside his computer, and Survival, an end-of-the-world strip featuring kids who'd survived a global disease.
The comic merged with M.A.S.K. Comic around 1988. Around 1989, the M.A.S.K. strips ended and the title merged with Wildcat (a sci-fi title). In 1990, the comic became glossy and featured horror strips, Dan Dare, science articles, entertainment reviews, etc.
I stopped buying it around 1993 because by that point, it was a monthly title that, although it had more pages, reprinted a lot of early Eagle stuff such as Doomlord and Survival. Great for first-time buyers of the title, not great if you'd been reading it since 1982 and had read all the stuff it was reprinting.
All in all, a great title - they don't make them like that anymore.
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Post by MacNimon on Jul 18, 2013 5:13:04 GMT
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Post by llllllll on Jul 22, 2013 19:12:23 GMT
There was a spell there, where The Eagle could have been renamed The Daley Thompson. He's on nearly every other cover for years. ;D
Interesting to see that the later issues went back to the classic format with a Dan Dare comic strip on the cover.
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