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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 |