Issue 55


Issue 55 (40 pp) Winter 2021	Page	Contents - Issue 55
	Front	The cover art is Ian Kennedy's atmospheric illustration of the Anastasia.
	2	From the Editor
	3-6	Dan Dare in "Voyage of the Ankum" Episodes 13-14, written by John Bailey, adapted by Richard Woods, drawn by William Naylor, with text and editing by Des Shaw, and colouring by Martin Baines.
	7-11	The Adventures of Alan Stranks, by Andrew Darlington - a biography of the celebrated Alan Stranks who worked on The Eagle magazine, amongst other things, and best known for the PC49 strip in Eagle.
	12-13	A Tribute to Greta Tomlinson, by Rod Barzilay. Greta Tomlinson was one of the original artists who worked with Frank Hampson on The Eagle in Southport, Lancashire, from 1950
	14-17	Jeff Hawke, The Comet's Tale, Part 2, Original monochrome artwork and story by Sydney Jordan. (Colourised).
	18-19	Space News, by Ray Wright. New findings on the core of Mars, and discussion of the forthcoming exploration and colonisation. William Shatner's (short) journey into space.
	20-21	Centrespread, by Ian Kennedy. An atmospheric illustration of the Anastasia in flight.
	22-23	Space News, continued. A very rare triple image of a galaxy by gravitational lensing, a hi-res image of an asteroid and an update on the SpaceX fully-re-usable "Starship", with its massive booster stage, connected for the first time.
	24-27	Target: Earth Episode 6 Story by Gordon Coombs, Art by Harry Winslade Tom, Gerry, and Professor Harris put their sabotage plan into action.
	28-31	Boys' Papers, a glance through the early years. By that we mean magazines for boys that were published 100 years ago, and more (no such thing as girls in those days..)
	32-35	Nick Hazard, Interstellar Agent, in Invaders from Time, Episode 2, by John Russell Fearn, Art by Ron Turner and colouring by Martin Baines.
	36-37	City in Space, Part 3. More about the ambitious designs of Daniel C Romick, of the Goodyear Aircraft Company, aimed at building large habitations in Earth orbit.
	38	A Don Harley illustration of Dan, Digby and Peabody in their AD2000 incarnations and a ludicrous, but well-illustrated "Eagle" spaceship in the background
	39	Earthward Bound, Yet more cheesy madness of those pesky moon creatures with those thermionic valves on their heads (unsafe, I call it)
	Back	A superb picture of Greta Tomlinson as Peabody, by Don Harley