or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
33 used & new from £3.00

Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
Eagle Annual of the 1950s (Annual): The Best If the 1950s Comic Features Dan Dare the Greatest Comic Strip of All Time
 
 

Eagle Annual of the 1950s (Annual): The Best If the 1950s Comic Features Dan Dare the Greatest Comic Strip of All Time (Hardcover)

by Daniel Tatarsky (Author)
3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.29 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £5.70 (38%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Want guaranteed delivery by Wednesday, November 18? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
20 new from £6.23 13 used from £3.00

Frequently Bought Together

Eagle Annual of the 1950s (Annual): The Best If the 1950s Comic Features Dan Dare the Greatest Comic Strip of All Time + The Eagle Annual of the Cutaways + Eagle Annual: The Best of the 1960s Comic
Price For All Three: £28.05

Show availability and delivery details


Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Eagle Annual: The Best of the 1960s Comic

Eagle Annual: The Best of the 1960s Comic

by Daniel Tatarsky
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £8.96
The Eagle Annual of the Cutaways

The Eagle Annual of the Cutaways

by Daniel Tatarsky
4.4 out of 5 stars (11)  £9.80
The Bumper Book of Look and Learn

The Bumper Book of Look and Learn

by Stephen Pickles
4.5 out of 5 stars (6)  £12.33
Classic Dan Dare: Man from Nowhere (Classic Dan Dare)

Classic Dan Dare: Man from Nowhere (Classic Dan Dare)

by Frank Hampson; Donald Harley
4.7 out of 5 stars (3)  £10.85
Classic Dan Dare: Rogue Planet

Classic Dan Dare: Rogue Planet

by Frank Hampson
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £11.54
Explore similar items

Product details

  • Hardcover: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Orion; Reprint edition (4 Oct 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752888943
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752888941
  • Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 21.6 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,628 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in these categories:

    #7 in  Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Cartooning
    #10 in  Books > Reference > Transport > Automotive > Accessories
    #40 in  Books > Art, Architecture & Photography > Painting & Drawing

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links

  (What is this?)
   The Best Eagle opens new browser window
www.Ask.com  -  Find the Best Results for The Best Eagle
  
 

Product Description

CHOICE

'A delight'


Review

'This Week's Must-Have... With not a whiff of the terrible Eighties retread, this sticks to square-jawed heroes, spaceships, war - and a detective called Harris Tweed.' (LIVE - MAIL ON SUNDAY )

'A lovingly rendered facsimile of highlights ffrom the original comics.' (TIMES )

'Irresistible... its 176 pages, lovingly compiled, contain that curious mixture of features - diverting, educational and religious' (DAILY MAIL )

'Given that it reproduces comics from nearly 60 years ago, the Eagle Annual of the 1950s is in some ways amazingly up to date' (Simon Hoggart GUARDIAN )

'Beautifully published collection of greatest hits from the classic comic - not just the strips, but readers' letters, car cross-sections, sports pages and adverts ******' (TIME OUT )

'A stunning compilation from the Eagle comics of the 50s... Far from being a condescending look at a niave age, this spiffing annual may well inspire a new dawn for the comic.' (DAILY SPORT )

'Spiffing romps from the golden age of Eagle comics' (THE LONDON PAPER )

'A fascinating social documentation' (GOOD BOOK GUIDE )

'Christmas really can come early. Sometimes, it can seem like several have come all along at once - and that's the feeling that many chaps of a certain age will get with even a sideways glance at the cover of this marvellous book' (MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS )

'The newly published Eagle Annual should keep those children of the 50s quiet for hours this Christmas... this facinating book tells the story of how the comic was born as well as taking readers on a trip down memory lane.' (DERBY EVENING TELEGRAPH )

'Whether you are old enough to have enjoyed The Eagle the first time round, or you're looking at the strips for the first time, this will have you captivated... Nostalgia at its best.' (NUNEATON TELEGRAH )

'Holding this book is like holding a mint edition of an original Eagle annual from the 1950s - sheer joy! Absolutely stunning - Dads won't be able to resist the charm of this fascinating collector's item. A second volume, Eagle Annual of the 1960s is promised for this time next year - so that's next year's Christmas sorted!' (GATEWAY )

'A social reflection from a more innocent age... A Christmas stocking filler of quality' (HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER )

'This excellent collection draws on the vast Eagle archive, and features original strips as well as individual drawing and artwork...a delight' (PARK AND HOLIDAY HOMES )

'A delight' (CHOICE )

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 

Your tags: Add your first tag
 

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Eagle Annual of the 1950s (Annual): The Best If the 1950s Comic Features Dan Dare the Greatest Comic Strip of All Time
74% buy the item featured on this page:
Eagle Annual of the 1950s (Annual): The Best If the 1950s Comic Features Dan Dare the Greatest Comic Strip of All Time 3.4 out of 5 stars (11)
£9.29
The Eagle Annual of the Cutaways
11% buy
The Eagle Annual of the Cutaways 4.4 out of 5 stars (11)
£9.80
Eagle Annual: The Best of the 1960s Comic
10% buy
Eagle Annual: The Best of the 1960s Comic 5.0 out of 5 stars (1)
£8.96
The Bumper Book of Look and Learn
3% buy
The Bumper Book of Look and Learn 4.5 out of 5 stars (6)
£12.33

 

Customer Reviews

11 Reviews
5 star:
 (3)
4 star:
 (4)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:
 (2)
1 star:
 (2)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
3.4 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Better than a curate's egg . . ., 22 Jun 2009
By L. T. M. Liechti "Len Liechti" (Bath, UK) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
I'm not surprised that this book has produced such wildly polarised opinions (see earlier reviews). This is because it approaches a popular subject, and one much published upon over the last thirty years, from a new and original angle, but unfortunately makes one or two easily avoidable bloopers in doing so.

This book is an Eagle scrapbook, nothing more, nothing less, and as such offers a novel perspective on this much-anthologised subject. Earlier Eagle-based publications have concentrated on the picture-strip stories, and on the premier features such as the centre-page cutaway schematics. Readers lamenting the relegation of the strips to single-page tasters in this book should check out the wonderful Hawk reprints of the complete adventures of Dan Dare from 1950 to around 1964, especially in the first editions which were produced full-size using the original published pages, unedited, and also the beautifully-offered strips in Hawk's one-off editions of Fraser of Africa, Harris Tweed, Riders Of The Range and PC49. The strips and the best features from the weekly also grace Marcus Morris's original The Best Of Eagle from 1977, and Denis Gifford produced The Best Of Eagle Annual in 1989 which offers a similar mixture taken from Eagle Annuals, 1951-59. All of these are generally available in used condition on Amazon or elsewhere.

What the present volume does offer, for the first time, is a flavour of all the other bits and pieces that made Eagle what it was, especially in the early years: the educational titbits, the news and sporting items, the puzzles and quizzes, the competitions, and, yes, those adverts. As a hardcore Eagle reader from around 1955 to around 1962 - aged 6 to 13 - these more humble items of course went right over my head when compared to the highly-coloured derring-do of Dare, Luck and Jeff Arnold. But today they present a fascinating social document of young-boy culture from that decade which now seems a world away, and for that very reason are most welcome.

Perhaps Mr Tatarsky's mistake is to include any pages from the great strips at all, especially as these are so freely available elsewhere. Maybe he should have offered us "The Rest Of Eagle"? However not including them would make this a severely specialist publication, and, after all, sales figures do matter. Hence readers should accept what is here for what it is, enjoy it in that spirit, and look to the other books listed above for the more monumental Eagle achievements.

There are other issues. Although the careworn cover simulation has a certain charm, the hideous mock foxing effect on the pages inside is a big mistake, and considerably cheapens the presentation rather than giving it atmosphere. It is to be hoped that this technique will not be used in the forthcoming 1960s companion volume. The title "Eagle Annual" is misleading as this is a compendium from the periodical itself, not from the annuals. And certainly the reprographic process used to reproduce the pages has resulted in some blurry images, surely avoidable in these days of high-tech scanners and printers.

However, putting all this aside, there is plenty in this relatively inexpensive volume to fascinate all men of a certain age who hanker after the nostalgia of the 'fifties, when the appearance of Eagle brightened up every Tuesday in austerity Britain. It will be interesting to see what the 1960s volume looks like when it appears, as Eagle changed greatly with the departures of Frank Hampson and Marcus Morris, and sadly not for the better.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Eagle Annual of the 50's, 12 Nov 2007
By Michael Johnson "devonmike" (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
If, as I do, you have fond memories of the 50's then this book is a MUST. In so many ways the Eagle comic represented this era better than any other British comic. The book is beautifully presented and contains so much nostalgic reading and excellent reproduction of pages from the original comic including the first ever issue in April 1950. Yes, some strips are not included but this is a small critism. Buy it, you won't be disappointed.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
29 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars A great opportunity missed, 8 Nov 2007
By Ernie (Worcestershire) - See all my reviews
This is not the Best of Eagle: there is no Jack o'Lantern, no Luck of the Legion, no Tommy Walls, no Peter Jackson True Life Adventures, only one page of Harris Tweed and only one of Storm Nelson (inexplicably printed in faded sepia!). Instead of a wealth of stunning colour pages of comic strip, there is predominantly a rag bag of Editorials, Readers Letters, Mac Hastings articles and lots of Advertisements; together with trite comments which add nothing to the material (some of these are typeset with dropped capitals, some are not). There is at least one error when Mr Tatarsky confuses a one-off Hampson Nativity panel with his later Road of Courage strip. The page size is less then the original, the quality of reproduction is extremely poor and made worse by some spotty-faced graphic designer who has artificially distressed the pages with brown gunge. Their grandfather could have told them that the quality paper the Eagle was printed on does not go brown at the edges. I assume Mr Frewin's valediction was written before he saw a proof copy of the book and trust that he will employ a more competent author and publisher for future reprints. Mr Frewin mentions his archive of original Dan Dare art boards - a book of those would really be worth the title: Best of Eagle.
Comment Comments (2) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable trip down memory lane.
Having read the reviews here, and now having actually purchased and browsed through this book, I can see why opinion is divided. Read more
Published 8 days ago by 60's music fan

5.0 out of 5 stars memories
i can still remember the green austin van with the golden eagle on top coming down our road handing out vouchers to enable us to get a free copy of the very first eagle... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. Cyril Quayle

4.0 out of 5 stars Keeps You Coming Back for More
I actually bought this when it first came out and thought I'd already reviewed it. I only came back to this page because I was looking at the 60s Annual and beyond to the Dan Dare... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Ping Buzzer 1

1.0 out of 5 stars Dire
Oh dear what a big disappointment this book was. And yet it could have been wonderful. It is just a collection of random cuttings from the Eagle and very few strips,of which... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mr. Glenn Cook

1.0 out of 5 stars RIP-OFF CRAP.
Like a bunch of bad photocopies, and mostly too small and faded to read. No central margins. Utter rubbish, avoid. Buy an old genuine Eagle annual instead.
Published 10 months ago by E. H. Evans

2.0 out of 5 stars What a let down!
I saw this book and thought that it was the very book that I had been looking for; but what a disappointment! Two big problems in my view. Read more
Published 13 months ago by farm boy

5.0 out of 5 stars an exhilirating trip down memory lane...
Absolutely fabulous, really enjoyed the read, couldnt put the book down! was packed with nostaglia from beginning to end, printed on high quality paper, the book was a real treat... Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2007 by James

5.0 out of 5 stars Dan Dare great nostalgia, fantastic xmas present
The history of THE EAGLE is great, but holding this book is sheer joy! The printing has been done to emulate a publication of the time, really good! Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2007 by L Freeman

Only search this product's reviews



Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 

   


Listmania!


Look for similar items by category


Look for similar items by subject


Feedback

Ad

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.