The latest issue of EAGLE Times is out now, the quarterly journal of The Eagle Society, dedicated to the memory of EAGLE, the leading Boy’s magazine of the 1950s and 1960s.
Alongside the issue, subscribers can find out how to enter the raffle to win the stunning Dan Dare inspired art by Graham Bleathman that featured on the cover of the previous issue.
There’s quite a mix of features this time around, the spotlight turned on the fantasy adventure strip “Wrath of the Gods” written by Willie Patterson, who’s also known for his work on “Jeff Hawke” and “Phantom Patrol”, which featured art by Ron Embleton and John M. Burns, which joined EAGLE when it absorbed Boys’ World.
(Copies of the limited edition collection published by Book Palace earlier this year are still available).
Artist Luis Bermejo‘s work on “Heros the Spartan” is in focus too, his contribution to this long-running strip often overlooked in favour of Frank Bellamy‘s; and we’re treated to the second part of the back page strip about Winston Churchill, “The Happy Warrior“.
Also in the lineup is the latest part of David Britton’s “Me Too” series about female artists of the 1950s, which looks at the art of little-known artist Daphne Bevis Rowles (1922 – 6th February 1967, aka simply Daphne Rowles), daughter of the marine artist, Stanley Charles Rowles, A.R.C.A.
Her work included “Nicky Nobody” for Swift, the story of a young, wandering orphan and his dog Chum, written by Bill Wellings, and the “Scarlet Ladybird” advertising strips for Ladybird branded children’s clothing, which also ran in Swift, written by Eric Walter Pasold, of Pasolds, the knitwear manufacturers. Steve Holland notes “The Sign of the Scarlet Ladybird”, which was also drawn by the TV Comic artist John Canning, appeared in Swift from its first issue in March 1954 and continued to appear (with one brief break) until December 1962, shortly before the paper was merged into Eagle.
She also illustrated one Enid Blyton book,1964’s The Hidey Hole, three years before she passed away, and illustrated a wide range of fiction and factual books over her career, including Here Comes Thursday! by Paddington creator Michael Bond, in 1966. One of her last projects was probably Bears Back in Business by Margaret J. Baker, published the year she died, aged just 45.
The issue also includes two more “In and Out of the EAGLE” pages by Jim Duckett, and the first part of a new Archie Willoughby story, “The Case of the Brand New Hat”, by Steve Winders, a page looking at some of the readers’ letters that appeared in EAGLE and four pages of Eagle Times‘ own readers’ letters.
• Membership of The Eagle Society is via Annual Subscription to Eagle Times magazine, which is published four times annually. Please make cheques payable to the ‘Eagle Society’. The current subscription rate (unchanged since 2018) is UK £30, Overseas £40 (all payments required in £s Sterling)
Postal applications to: Eagle Society Membership Secretary, Bob Corn, Mayfield Lodge, Llanbadoc, Usk Monmouthshire NP15 1SY | Web: eagle-times.blogspot.com | Enquiries: membership@eagle-society.org.uk
If you wish to pay by Paypal (from your Paypal account to the e-mail address above) – The Society request that you make your payment as a GIFT)
Head downthetubes for…
• The EAGLE Society is online at eagle-times.blogspot.com
• Bear Allery: Daphne Rowles Profile by Steve Holland
• Bear Alley: E. W. Pasold, writer of the “The Sign of the Scarlet Ladybird”
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Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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