The EAGLE Society will be celebrating the seventy fifth anniversary of EAGLE at their next Gathering, taking place in Plymouth, running from Monday April 28th – Wednesday April 30th 2025.
The principal guest will be the “Dan Dare” artist Keith Page, who has enjoyed a long career in strip illustration, with his other credits including his own creations, The Adventures of Charlotte Corday, Strawjack and the graphic novel, Hancock: The Lad Himself, created with Stephen Walsh.
His other credits include Commando, MASK, Ring Raiders, Stingray and Thunderbirds
The special anniversary event will be held in the New Continental Hotel. Attendees must be members of the EAGLE Society, subscribing to EAGLE Times.
New members will be sent details of the costs of the Gathering, but please act quickly if you wish to join the Society, as deposits must be paid by 15th January 2025.
Membership of the Society for 2025 is £30 for UK members and £50 for overseas members. Members receive the quarterly magazine EAGLE Times, celebrating its 150th issue next year.
• Subscriptions should be sent to Bob Corn, Mayfield Lodge, Llanbadoc, Usk, NP15 1SY. Please make cheques payable to the ‘Eagle Society’
• The EAGLE Society is online at eagle-times.blogspot.com
• Raiding the Past and Future: a downthetubes Interview with artist Keith Page
• Check out Keith Page’s blog here
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
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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Can someone persuade titan books to finish off their reprints of dan dare? It’s stalled in the early 60s so plenty of good stuff left to publish.