Eagle Annual 015 (1966) Hulton Press

 

Eagle Annual 1966 asks the question of whether England can win the World Cup that year - Yes we did ! The building of Tower Bridge gets explained in detail but it doesn't stop the decline in the number of pages. The saving grace is that the annual's price remained the same. 

Published by : Odhams Books Ltd in 1965

Dimensions : 21cm x 26.5cm with 128 pages.

Selected highlights:

• Dan Dare has trouble with Space Rocks
• I aways thought Plimsolls were gym shoes until I read about the Plimsoll line...
• Sgt. Bruce meets the Peterman
• Elephants are found in Essex

CONTENTS		The Story of Tower Bridge	48
Adventure Strips		Messages Without Words	59
The Iron Man in Voyage to Adventure	9	The Monsters	70
Dan Dare in Space Rocks	17	Saving Space	88
Cornelius Dimworthy Flies High	29	Answers to Puzzles	127
Blackbow the Cheyenne in Snake Spirit	44	Sport
Sgt. Bruce in The Bingo Gang	60	Can England Win the World Cup?	13
Cornelius Dimworthy in Lucky Dog	74	Ski Jump	42
Heros the Spartan	89	Sports Spectacular	101
Blackbow the Cheyenne in The Ambush	106	Going Fishing	110
Sgt. Bruce in The Peterman	117	Stories
True Life Adventure		The Ice Wall	4
Morgan The Terrible	64	The Hero of Brebada	25
The Real Wild West	79	Once a Cracksman	34
Elephants of Essex	112	Comanches are Coming!	55
Interest		Jungle Patrol	84
Lifeline for Sailors	16	Gold Flame	97
Puzzle Parade	33, 54, 78, 121	The Lion	104
Collecting	38	Race with Danger	122

2000 AD #0051 - #0100. IPC Magazines

 Publisher: IPC

Publication Dates: 26 February 1977 – 15 August 1987
Number of Issues Published: 535 (#1 – #535)
Color: Color cover; Mostly black and white interior
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Publication Type: magazine

Page: 32        Indicia Frequency: Every Monday

Merged after #85 into 2000 AD and Starlord
Merged after #126 into 2000 AD and Tornado

Numbering continues with #178 from 2000 AD and Tornado

(IPC, 1979 series) #177

Numbering continues with 2000 AD (Fleetway Publications, 1987 series) #536

2000 AD #0051-#0085, 2000 AD and Starlord #86- #0100.   IPC Magazines

Publication Dates: 11 February 1978 – 17 February 1979

Publisher: IPC

2000ad 0100-0103 Dredd Poster (Katscan)

Somerset Holmes 001-006. Pacific Comics / Eclipse Comics [Complete Series]

 Somerset Holmes

Somerset Holmes was a 6-issue comic book mini-series written by Bruce Jones and co-plotted by April Campbell with art by Brent Anderson. The first four issues were published by Pacific Comics; after Pacific went out of business the last two issues were published by Eclipse Comics which later collected all six issues into a trade paperback. 

The first issue of Somerset Holmes was cover dated September 1983,

 the last December 1984.

Somerset Holmes tells the story of an amnesiac young woman, chased by criminals intent on killing her, and her attempts to stay alive while simultaneously struggling to solve the mystery of her past life and true identity. She takes her assumed name, Somerset Holmes, from a sign advertising a housing project, Somerset Homes.

The physical appearance of the main character was based on author Jones' wife April Campbell, a former model, who posed as photo reference for the character, including the image used for the first issue's cover.

The series was a deliberate attempt to create a comics property that could then be sold to Hollywood as a movie, and the storyline, panel arrangements and scene angles were consciously cinematic. Somerset Holmes, although never made into a movie, was actually optioned by Ed Pressman and, because of the screenplay Jones and Campbell wrote for it, both gained Hollywood agents and were accepted into the Screen Writers Guild. They subsequently worked on television and movie projects, as well as more comic books, and both went on to write novels.

Both Jones and Campbell feel strongly that the 1996 Geena Davis movie The Long Kiss Goodnight was an unauthorized, and unpaid for, theft of the Somerset Holmes idea.

[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]

Pages:  36       Indicia Frequency:  bimonthly

Eagle Annual 014 (1965) Hulton Press

 

Eagle Annual 1965 gets smaller with less pages than previously, and has no engineering, science or nature sections. Even one of the Dan Dare stories is no longer in colour. Is this the beginning of a decline?

Published by : Odhams Books Ltd in 1964

Dimensions : 21cm x 26cm with 160 pages.

Selected highlights:

• Was Christopher Marlowe murdered? Find out here.
• Dan Dare sees Fire in the Sky!
• See if you can Catch A Crook, again?
• Flying Saucers. Fact or Fantasy?

Contents
STORIES		ADVENTURE STRIPS
Box of Tricks by John Challis	4	Dan Dare in March of the Ants	10
Night Trip to Priory Rock by Edgar Garrett	25	Mann of Battle in Mission to the Marquis	33
Crazy Cat Blues by Dick Tatham	37	Heros the Spartan in Mark of the Warrior	41
The Numismatist by David Motton	45	Christopher Marlowe	50
The Road From Gundagai by Brogan Roberts	70	Sgt. Bruce in Wages Snatch	76
The Death Beam by James Kenner	80	Dan Dare in Fire in the Sky	97
Fear Strikes the Forest by Edward Osmond	93	Blackbow the Cheyenne in Town for Ransom	111
The Last Lap by Stephen Chelsworth	106	Mann of Battle in Thunder in the Desert	125
Night Intruders by Roy Brown	129	Sgt. Bruce in The Highwaymen	133
Dummy Run by Peter Chard	137	Blackbow the Cheyenne in The Storm Maker	144
TRUE LIFE ADVENTURE		INTEREST
The Texas Rangers	29	Transport Crossword	18
José de San Martín	60	Flying Saucers, Fact or Fantasy ?	19
Mountain Rescue	101	Puzzle Corner	40
Captain Falconer and the Pirates	155	The Fastest Man on Land	56
SPORT		Delta X-Ray Six	88
Soccer, and the Men Who Made It	14	Steam on the Road	115
Cricket, and the Men Who Made It	66	The Adventure Trail	120
Boomerangs at the Oval	85	Bicycles From the Beginning	150
Motor Racing, and the Men Who Made It	140	HOBBIES
HUMOUROUS STRIPS		Going Fishing for Pike	48
Fidosaurus	9, 132	Snap, Snappy, Snappiest	74
XYZ Cars	84, 159	Going Fishing for Carp	148