List of Eagle comic strips

This is a list of comic strips printed within the pages of Eagle, a seminal British children's comic first published from 1950 to 1969, and then in a relaunched format from 1982 to 1994.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

1950–1969

Adventure

Humour

Literary adaptations

Biography
  • "Alfred the Great", illustrated by Norman Williams
  • "The Baden-Powell Story", written by Geoffrey Bond (as Alan Jason) and illustrated by Norman Williams, 1954
  • "The Golden Man" (Sir Walter Raleigh), written by Marcus Morris and Guy Daniel and illustrated by Robert Ayton, 1961
  • "The Great Sailor" (Lord Nelson), illustrated by Norman Williams and Robert Ayton, 1957
  • "The Happy Warrior" (Winston Churchill), written by Clifford Makins and illustrated by Frank Bellamy
  • "Lincoln of America", written by Geoffrey Bond (as Alan Jason) and illustrated by Norman Williams, 1955
  • "Montgomery of Alamein", written by Clifford Makins and illustrated by Frank Bellamy
  • "The Travels of Marco Polo", written by Chad Varah and illustrated by Frank Bellamy
  • "The True Story of St. Vincent de Paul", written by R. B. Saxe and illustrated by Norman Williams

Bible stories

Reprints

1982–1994

Photo strips
  • The Collector – one-off morality tales based around items owned by The Collector
  • Doomlord – Eagle's most popular strip, a saga about a shape-changing alien sentencing humanity to death, but being replaced by another alien who served as Earth's protector. It later featured drawn artwork.
  • Fred – another half-page cartoon featuring a Charlie Chaplin-type character
  • The Invisible Boy – about a schoolboy who could become invisible
  • Joe Soap – a comedy strip about an incompetent private detective
  • Manix – an action strip about a robot secret agent. Later drawn.
  • Saddle Tramp – a western strip featuring a bounty hunter
  • Sgt. Streetwise – an undercover sergeant who used disguise to catch criminals
  • Thunderbolt and Smokey! – about two schoolboys creating their own football team
  • Walk or Die – a survival story about children in a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness

Hand-drawn strips
  • The Amstor Computer – a "story of the week" strip where readers sent in codes that loaded that week's story
  • Avenger – a vigilante with a day job as a teacher
  • Bloodfang – initially a naturalistic tale relating the life of a Tyrannosaur, who was later captured by time-travelling bounty hunters and shipped to a zoo in the 22nd century
  • The Brothers – the tale of twins, one regressed to a "caveman" state due to an industrial accident, trying to locate their family
  • Computer Warrior, initially known as Ultimate Warrior – a popular and long-lived strip featuring a boy who could play computer games for real using a "real life code"
  • Comrade Bronski – yet another incarnation of the 'hard man' formula, this time with the central character as a member of the KGB rooting out internal corruption
  • Crowe St. Comp – the adventures of a group of comprehensive schoolchildren
  • D.A.D.D. – Dial A Dawn Destructor, a group of rock stars, Dawn Destruction, who solved crimes during the night
  • Dan Dare, initially illustrated by Gerry Embleton, then Ian Kennedy after a brief stint by Oli Frey – notable for being a drawn strip, in lavish colour
  • Detective Zed – a humorous strip about a robot detective in 22nd-century London
  • Dolebusters – a strip about three young would-be entrepreneurs who will do anything for ready cash
  • Ernie – a short (usually three panels) comedy cartoon featuring a hapless eagle, Eagle's mascot
  • The Fifth Horseman – a drawn strip, initially about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, becoming a story about an alien computer attempting world domination
  • The Fists of Danny Pike – about an amateur boxer overcoming adversity to become world champion
  • Ghost Squad – a spin-off of Death Wish (below), about a squad of ghost detectives
  • Ghostworld
  • Gil Hazzard (Scorpio) – a drawn strip about a 'hard man', with the gimmick of its initial run in Stereoscopic 3D
  • The Hard Men (comic strip), also known as Clovis and Chowdhary – generic 'hard men' strip about two MI5 agents blackmailed into performing secret missions
  • The Hand – about a freelance photographer who loses a hand in an accident. When his hand is replaced by dead gangster's, it starts to control him
  • The House of Correction – set in a Nazi concentration camp
  • Jake's Platoon – set in World War II
  • The House of Daemon – a strip involving characters trying to escape a haunted house
  • Kid Cops – a science fiction strip where, as all future wars are fought on the Moon, Earth is largely deserted and children must become the police
  • Legend of the Linkits – a toy merchandising tie-in, about a war of robots built from building blocks similar to Meccano or Lego
  • Manta Force – a toy merchandising tie-in, about a group of space colonists who end up in a civil war on their new home. The strip was notable for the colony ship/toy appearing roughly the size of a supermarket yet supposedly containing thousands of troops, tanks and equipment stowed away for the duration of its voyage
  • M.A.S.K. – a toy merchandising tie-in, about the members of MASK fighting their arch-enemies VENOM with the aid of hi-tech masks and transforming combat vehicles
  • News Team – a group of investigative reporters undertaking adventures in war-torn countries and similarly dangerous locations
  • Roadblasters – a toy merchandising tie-in, about organised racing across an entire planet
  • Robo Machines – a toy merchandising tie-in, about the battle of good and evil by sentient shapeshifting robots, similar to Transformers, but based on Bandai's British version of Gobots.
  • Shadow (comic strip) – a strip about a wandering police dog, similar to Lassie but with more violence
  • Soup Squad – a secret division of Scotland Yard dedicated to investigating supernatural crimes
  • S.O.S. – a strip from the back catalogue of Battle about a group of crack undercover soldiers, continued with new material
  • Survival – a science fiction strip about a group of children struggling to survive in a world where every adult has died of plague. The strip is remarkably similar to Kids Rule O.K., which got its parent comic Action banned due to its continual and senseless violence
  • Timespell
  • The Tower King – set in a modern-day London reduced to medieval anarchy
  • Toys of Doom – a sequel of a frequently reprinted multi-part horror strip originally seen in Buster in 1966, involving toys that could be controlled similarly to General Jumbo

Reprinted from 2000 AD

Absorbed from Scream!

Absorbed from Tiger
  • Billy's Boots – about a boy footballer who owned the boots of the legendary Dead-Shot Keen, which made him an unbeatable player
  • Death Wish – about disfigured race driver Blake Edmonds, who undertook extremely dangerous adventures and stunts as he felt he had nothing to lose
  • Golden Boy – an extremely gifted athlete who grew up in a feral state on isolated moorland
  • Star Rider – an alien who stayed on Earth to compete in BMX championships

Absorbed from Battle
  • Charley's War – a critically acclaimed, and meticulously researched, fictionalised account of World War I
  • Johnny Red – a World War II British fighter pilot who fights alongside the Russian army
  • Storm Force – a non-stop action strip about a squad of elite anti-terrorist warriors, inspired by Action Force
  • Gaunt – set in World War II, about an unbalanced "hard man" given a superhumanly strong artificial hand to replace one lost during torture
  • One-Eyed Jack – yet another "hard man" cop, wearing an eyepatch. The series, set in New York, was created by John Wagner and provided inspiration for Wagner's Judge Dredd.

Absorbed from Wildcat

1990 relaunch
  • A rebooted Dan Dare, attempting to return to the thematic roots of the character
  • Beast! – a short-lived horror strip about a demonic creature terrorising a fairground
  • The Eagle One-off – another 'story of the week' strip
  • Dark Angels – a mature strip about teenaged skateboarding vigilantes
  • Mask of Evil – another short-lived strip about a mask that forced its wearer to commit immoral acts
  • Mowser
  • My Pet Alien
  • Rat Trap – a strip about a serial burglar, Dr. Ratty Rat (though exactly what he was a doctor of was never revealed), who looked like a rat, with a powerful sonic rasp. Readers would send in extravagant plans to trap him (e.g. "feed him enough chocolate so he can't move so you can arrest him"), which would be executed by B.I.F.F.F. (British Institute For Foiling Felonies) but always failed (e.g. he would use his rasp to blow open the doors of the police van and escape).

References
  1. John McLusky on Lambiek Comiclopedia
  2. Frank Humphris on Lambiek Comiclopedia
  3. Don Lawrence on Lambiek Comiclopedia
  4. The Guinea Pig at International Hero
  5. The Iron Man at International Hero
  6. Smokeman at International Hero
  7. Tommy Walls at International Hero
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