Tuesday 3 April 2012

1983: EAGLE 71-82

This is it!  The end of the EAGLE's short-lived dalliance with photo-stories (and nice paper.  And multiple text features.  And celebrity culture.  And... the list goes on) but, at least, it bowed out in style.  Another four ACTION FORCE mini-comics, a spot of aggro with breakfast broadcaster TV-am (more on that in a separate entry) and readership appeasing spud guns ("mash up the Mekon) and, naturally, another Frisbee-thingy.

The Eagle itself continued for many years.  But it was never this special again.


ISSUE 71
30 July 1983
Free ACTION FORCE mini-comic issue 2: SAS Force.

ISSUE 72
6 August 1983

ISSUE 73
13 August 1983
Free ACTION FORCE mini-comic issue 3.

ISSUE 74
20 August 1983

ISSUE 75
27 August 1983
Free ACTION FORCE mini-comic issue 4.

ISSUE 76
3 September 1983

ISSUE 77
10 September 1973
Free ACTION FORCE mini-comic issue 5

ISSUE 78
17 September 1983
Last photo-story issue.
Contains half-page rebuttal of TV-am News story related to The Hand.

Relaunch announcement.  The wording carefully avoids any mention of the photo-stories becoming traditional comic strips.

ISSUE 79
24 September 1983
First relaunched issue.  The format (inferior printing and paper) now matches BATTLE, 2000AD and TIGER.

ISSUE 80
1 October 1983

ISSUE 81
8 October 1983

ISSUE 82
15 October 1983

1 comment:

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...