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New Eagle Times comes Christmas sprinkled

The new EAGLE Times is out now, and, as ever for this time of year, has a few Christmas touches!

EAGLE Times (Volume 35, No. 4), the latest magazine from the Eagle Society, is out now, and, as ever for this time of year, has a few Christmas touches. For those unfamiliar, the Eagle Society is dedicated to the memory of Eagle, the leading boy’s magazine of the 1950s and 1960s. As ever, there’s a great mix of features, both informative and copiously illustrated, making for an enjoyable read…

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London Tower Bridge comic strip mystery solved!

London Tower Bridge comic strip mystery solved!

downthetubes gets a number of queries about old British comics, and strips, but a recent one featuring a real-life bus accident on London’s Tower Bridge resulted in a terrific combined effort by several British comic archivists to track the source.

A comic strip mystery from the 1950s

Cartoonist Chris Williams contacted us in his role at the Cartoonists’ Club of Great Britain, on behalf of…

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New EAGLE Times highlights Tintin’s lunar adventure and rare British custom comic, The Shell

New EAGLE Times highlights Tintin’s lunar adventure and rare British custom comic, The Shell

The latest edition of EAGLE Times, the magazine of the Eagle Society, devoted to Eagle comic and its many creators, is out now.

Tintin appears on the cover of the Volume 32 No. 3 Autumn 2019 edition, a character whose first British appearance was in Eagle, back in 1951 with the publication of an English version of “King Ottokar’s Sceptre”. Continuing to broaden the EAGLE Timescomics coverage in…

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