Eagle Annual 1965 gets smaller with less pages than previously, and has no
engineering, science or nature sections. Even one of the Dan Dare stories is no longer in colour.
Is this the beginning of a decline?
Original Price : 12s 6d (62½p)
Published by : Odhams Books Ltd in 1964
Dimensions : 21cm x 26cm with 160 pages.
Selected highlights:
- Was Christopher Marlowe murdered? Find out here.
- Dan Dare sees Fire in the Sky!
- See if you can Catch A Crook, again?
- Flying Saucers. Fact or Fantasy?
| Contents | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| STORIES | ADVENTURE STRIPS | ||
| Box of Tricks by John Challis | 4 | Dan Dare in March of the Ants | 10 |
| Night Trip to Priory Rock by Edgar Garrett | 25 | Mann of Battle in Mission to the Marquis | 33 |
| Crazy Cat Blues by Dick Tatham | 37 | Heros the Spartan in Mark of the Warrior | 41 |
| The Numismatist by David Motton | 45 | Christopher Marlowe | 50 |
| The Road From Gundagai by Brogan Roberts | 70 | Sgt. Bruce in Wages Snatch | 76 |
| The Death Beam by James Kenner | 80 | Dan Dare in Fire in the Sky | 97 |
| Fear Strikes the Forest by Edward Osmond | 93 | Blackbow the Cheyenne in Town for Ransom | 111 |
| The Last Lap by Stephen Chelsworth | 106 | Mann of Battle in Thunder in the Desert | 125 |
| Night Intruders by Roy Brown | 129 | Sgt. Bruce in The Highwaymen | 133 |
| Dummy Run by Peter Chard | 137 | Blackbow the Cheyenne in The Storm Maker | 144 |
| TRUE LIFE ADVENTURE | INTEREST | ||
| The Texas Rangers | 29 | Transport Crossword | 18 |
| José de San Martín | 60 | Flying Saucers, Fact or Fantasy ? | 19 |
| Mountain Rescue | 101 | Puzzle Corner | 40 |
| Captain Falconer and the Pirates | 155 | The Fastest Man on Land | 56 |
| SPORT | Delta X-Ray Six | 88 | |
| Soccer, and the Men Who Made It | 14 | Steam on the Road | 115 |
| Cricket, and the Men Who Made It | 66 | The Adventure Trail | 120 |
| Boomerangs at the Oval | 85 | Bicycles From the Beginning | 150 |
| Motor Racing, and the Men Who Made It | 140 | HOBBIES | |
| HUMOUROUS STRIPS | Going Fishing for Pike | 48 | |
| Fidosaurus | 9, 132 | Snap, Snappy, Snappiest | 74 |
| XYZ Cars | 84, 159 | Going Fishing for Carp | 148 |