Eagle artists
... Eagle had many other long running series apart from Dan Dare, and many other competent artists. Here is some of the work of other Eagle artists, with further pages devoted to individual artists. Dan Dare artists have their own pages as links to the Dan Dare essay, but now I am going to cover the artwork that lay inside the covers - and made Eagle the success it was. Here you can find artwork by Frank Humphris, John Worsley, Martin Aitchison, Harold Johns, Robert Ayton and John Ryan.And I now own a small piece of artwork by Martin Aitchison, ["Luck of the Legion"], who drew it for an article in Eagle Times. Sergeant Luck is rescuing one of his men from a crocodile.
The Frank Bellamy
pages. If one other Eagle artist comes up to the standards as Frank Hampson, albeit in a very different style, it is Frank Bellamy. These pages are designed to show off his artwork.
The front page of Eagle ... the face it presented to the world, from 1950 to 1969. How the design changed with the years.
The Road of Courage ... Frank Hampson's swan song in Eagle. Written by Marcus Morris, the founding editor, this was the Life of Christ. FH had left Dan Dare by this time, and this was to be his farewell to Eagle.
One of the more impressive features of the original Eagle was the centre page cutaway. These were in an unusual format, being spread across the top half of the centre pages. Below would be a strip which settled down in 1953 as "Luck of the Legion". But in the 1962 changes, this moved to the back page. Leslie Ashwell Wood drew many of these, from the first issue onwards, and this made him the longest running artist employed by Eagle.I have picked 8, usually with a naval or marine theme - the pictures, I regret, are rather long and thin, and large in size, but try :
Refrigerated Cargo Liner from Eagle Number 2. Psychologically, this is interesting - Britain had nearly starved during the war, and in 1950 rationing was still in full force, tho obviously not as restrictive as it had been. But the page is headed : "Bringing 10,000 Tons of Food to our Shores" - the tone suggesting some urgency.
The Hermes: an early airliner. I like this drawing as the aircraft is shown over the Needles, where I sail - and when Black Arrow was test fired.
The Canberra: A highly successful light/medium bomber designed as a Mosquito replacement, which set many records in the 50s..
The Altmark Incident! The Navy to the rescue. H.M.S. Cossack rescuing British priosners from the Altmark.
HMS Devonshire was a County class destroyer [in practice, a light cruiser], and the first of a successful class of British warships.
Concorde: but now the cutaways are no longer center page.
The Black Arrow: Britain's only satellite launcher - but sadly shortlived..
The TSR2: A tactical strike aircraft of considerable promise, that fell victim to the Labour Governments cuts (remember the "white heat of technology"?). Perhaps it was too big and ambitious - but it would have been a powerful brute.
The Worst of Eagle! Towards the end, Eagle went downhill rapidly - and these are some of the reasons why!Reviews of the site! It has been picked up by some Internet magazines and reviewed!
Almost all the Dan Dare stories have been reprinted by Hawk books, totalling 12 volumes in all. Many are still available, either direct from Hawk Books, Suite 309, Canalot Studios, 222 Kensal Road, London W10 5BN, or from 
There are also various second hand bookshops on the Web, which have a good stock of children's books and Eagle related books - Annuals and the like. One is run by