On a day that marks the sixty-six years since Eagle first appeared on the nation’s bookstalls, we’re delighted to present this article by David Slinn on the enormous impact the boys’ paper made on its debut in April 1950. Not… Read More ›
Alan Stranks
Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part Three
Leonard Matthews, General Managing Editor of Fleetway and the Eagle Group of Comics, was a “Creative Visionary”… but that, Roger Perry argues in his extensive biography of the man which continues here on downthetubes, is only due to him having utilised… Read More ›
60th Anniversary of Eagle – Part 2
The famous cover of Eagle Issue 1 is well known to comic fans everywhere, but what lay inside for the 1950s boy? As we celebrate 60 years of Eagle today, Richard Sheaf steps back to this week in 1950 to… Read More ›