Product Description

From Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, to PC 49, Harris Tweed, Extra Special Agent and Jeff Arnold in Riders of the Range, The Eagle carried numerous strips right from its launch in 1950 through to the sixties. The fourpence-halfpenny weekly also featured plenty of sports coverage and the famous 'cutaway' diagrams of battle ships, steam trains, light aircraft, etc. Taking over the publishing licence from Egmont and Titan, we now have the opportunity to step up the current vogue for 'retro-futurism': rather than simply re-run straight facsimiles of the comics, the Eagle Annuals of the 1950s and 60s will be drawn from the vast Eagle archive and feature the strips as well as individual drawings/artwork, original advertisements and a present-day narrative. The idea is to create a superior object of desire for boys, lads and dads everywhere.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2085 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-01
• Format: Facsimile
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

About the Author
Daniel Tatarsky is a veteran of the Subbuteo World Cup and author of FLICK TO CLICK, an illustrated history of Subbuteo. He was also editor for the ANNUAL of the 1950s.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant! Knocks the socks of the 1950's version.
Wow. I'm impressed! Following Tatarsky's 1950's 'not fit to wrap chips in shudder effort' this 1960's book is wonderful. It's almost as if the author has actually read and listened to the CONSTRUCTIVE (honest!) reviews and given the reader what they want. Bright and informative this book benefits from showing some of the wonderful strips Eagle was famous for. Luck of the Legion and lots of those wonderful true life adventures so well draw and illustrated. Included is an extract of a C S Forrester's Hornblower strip based on his book the Happy Return. Which for me was a joy to discover? That is the key to this book there are so many 'gems' that bring a smile to the reader's face. Unlike the 1950's book this one has much less of the boring 'Mug's' (Eagle reader's) exploits and stories and those really "bum clenching adventures of the staff eating curry type" expositions which bored the pants off the reader THEN never mind now. There seems to me to be an air of lets put some stuff from the comics that were actually relevant and of interest to the reader. The book is almost like finding and opening an old chest in your attic and rediscovering a treasure trove of long lost brilliant items.
Did I mention the good selection of 'cutouts' in this book ??
The book's cover is an improvement too, imho. Bright and attractive though I imagine some may disagree.
One very minor nit picking quibble is why is it titled the best of the 1960's ANNUAL when clearly it's from the comic and not the annuals? And why is the cover price so expensive when let's face it most of the writer's and comic staff will be long gone. I do hope that the publishers try to give some of the large cover price to those whose work is shown? BUT dear reader you're reading this on Amazon so will get the book for much less than the cover price. For once I don't for a minute suppose that this book will be in the bargain bins on Boxing Day! Guaranteed sell out IMHO so get it while you can would be my advice.
HOWEVER this will be the MUST HAVE present that really rocks the Eagle lover on Christmas day.
So I for one have to, cap in hand, humbly, congratulate Daniel Tatarsky for a job well done. What about a 1960's Part 2 please Mr Tatarsky?