Dan Dare great nostalgia, fantastic xmas present
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The history of THE EAGLE is great, but holding this book is sheer joy! The printing has been done to emulate a publication of the time, really good! The cover is printed with wear and tear to make it look like a 1950s book. Completely stunning - Dads and Grandads won't be able to resist the charm of this fascinating nostalgic book. A second volume, Eagle Annual of the 1960s is promised for this time next year - so that's next year's Christmas presents sorted too! Really recommend it for the orginal Eagle reader and the new Eagle reader. My Dad was so pleased to have received it and loves it!
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Eagle Annual of the 50's
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If, as I do, you have fond memories of the 50's then this book is a MUST. In so many ways the Eagle comic represented this era better than any other British comic. The book is beautifully presented and contains so much nostalgic reading and excellent reproduction of pages from the original comic including the first ever issue in April 1950. Yes, some strips are not included but this is a small critism. Buy it, you won't be disappointed.
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an exhilirating trip down memory lane...
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Absolutely fabulous, really enjoyed the read, couldnt put the book down! was packed with nostaglia from beginning to end, printed on high quality paper, the book was a real treat to receive. I shall certainly be buying another couple of copies for family/friends who were also avid Eagle readers. Would recommend.. a perfect gift. Looking forward to the second book, which im told is due out next year. Also hear the Dan Dare comic is being released by Virgin Comics at the end of the month, so look forward to that too.
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A great opportunity missed
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This is not the Best of Eagle: there is no Jack o'Lantern, no Luck of the Legion, no Tommy Walls, no Peter Jackson True Life Adventures, only one page of Harris Tweed and only one of Storm Nelson (inexplicably printed in faded sepia!). Instead of a wealth of stunning colour pages of comic strip, there is predominantly a rag bag of Editorials, Readers Letters, Mac Hastings articles and lots of Advertisements; together with trite comments which add nothing to the material (some of these are typeset with dropped capitals, some are not). There is at least one error when Mr Tatarsky confuses a one-off Hampson Nativity panel with his later Road of Courage strip. The page size is less then the original, the quality of reproduction is extremely poor and made worse by some spotty-faced graphic designer who has artificially distressed the pages with brown gunge. Their grandfather could have told them that the quality paper the Eagle was printed on does not go brown at the edges. I assume Mr Frewin's valediction was written before he saw a proof copy of the book and trust that he will employ a more competent author and publisher for future reprints. Mr Frewin mentions his archive of original Dan Dare art boards - a book of those would really be worth the title: Best of Eagle.
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