Eagle Annual 1975 was the last of the first series. Times were changing rapidly as
were boys' tastes in magazine and annuals. However, the old favourites such as Dan Dare
made it through to the end, even if some of the others fell by the wayside. Odd that
Dan Dare's rocket look suspiciously like a combination of Thunderbirds 1 and 3...
Original Price : 90p
Published by : IPC Magazine Ltd, A Fleetway Annual in 1974
Dimensions : 19cm x 27.5cm with 128 pages.
Selected highlights:
- Looking into Space predicts men on Mars
- Focus your stamp collection on Railways
- Ships Through the Ages says you could build a nuclear powered ship for £14,500,000 in 1962
- Dan Dare misses out on a White Christmas
| Contents | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Dare | 4 | Round the World By Rail | 68 |
| You Know Them - or Do You? | 12 | The Knight Who Never Was | 70 |
| Thumbing a Lift From the Sharks | 13 | Falling to Earth - At 120 Miles an Hour | 73 |
| El Bandido | 16 | They Don't Know Their Food ABC | 76 |
| Question Time | 22 | Trapped At Three Fathoms | 79 |
| Seeing Isn't Believing | 24 | Speedway - The Thrills and Spills Sport | 81 |
| Famous Fathers, Famous Sons | 25 | The Bandit Buster | 86 |
| Laugh Time | 30 | He was the Greatest Hoaxer of Them All | 94 |
| Danger in the Snow | 32 | Smile Please! | 96 |
| Finger Tip From Disaster | 40 | Nothing New Under the Sun - The Tank | 97 |
| Cook's Tour | 41 | Choose Your Car | 98 |
| Secret of the Forbidden Mountain | 42 | A Worthwhile Trip | 100 |
| The Phantom Raiders | 45 | Before the Take-Off | 104 |
| Hares On the Racing Track | 46 | So You Want To Be a Soccer Star? | 106 |
| Nothing New Under the Sun - Steam Turbine | 49 | Go On, Just Make a Guess! | 110 |
| Full Speed Ahead | 50 | Nothing New Under the Sun - The Compass | 112 |
| Greatest of Them All | 54 | Looking into Space | 113 |
| Nothing New Under the Sun - Cinerama | 62 | The Escape That Wasn't | 118 |
| Adventurers of the High Seas | 63 | Beast of the Gedauvan | 120 |