1960's Eagle Annual starts to get adventurous with a new highlighted section on the cover showing the Exciting New Contents!. Dan Dare moves to page 30. Last of the annuals published by Hulton Press Ltd. Amazingly the price remains the same as previous years. Nature appears as a contents list heading for the first time.
Original Price : 10s 6d (52½p)
Published by : Hulton Press Ltd, London in 1959
Edited by : Marcus Morris
Dimensions : 21.5cm x 26cm with 176 pages.
Selected highlights:
- Dan Dare's story is entitled : The Vanishing Scientists
- Jeff Arnold find some Guns For Hire
- Take a historical adventure with Jack O'Lantern
- Learn how the telephone works
Contents | |||
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Stories | Page | Humorous Strips | Page |
Isle of Missing Men | 8 | Touché | 15 |
Chinese Pirates | 22 | Out Of The Frying Pan | 30 |
Caribou | 67 | Harris Tweed | 40 |
Shark Island | 89 | Waldorf & Cecil | 83 |
Jungle Drums | 127 | Chicko | 126 |
New Year At Northbrook | 154 | Nice Work! | 130 |
Old Sunrise Steams Again | 160 | Goal! | 163 |
Adventure Strips | Hitch Hiker | 173 | |
Riders of the Range | 16 | Engineering | |
Dan Dare | 31 & 143 | Experiments For The Sky | 12 |
Storm Nelson | 60 | Trends In Car Design | 28 |
Dividing Trail | 107 | X Ray | 53 |
Jack O'Lantern | 119 | Rails Across Canada | 54 |
Luck of the Legion | 132 | Deep Sea Cable | 59 |
Cavendish Brown | 165 | How A Telephone Works | 97 |
TV At Work | 104 | ||
Sport | H.M.S. Victorious | 111 | |
So You Want To Go Fishing | 20 | Davy Jones's Oil Locker | 136 |
The Challenge Of The Pentathlon | 64 | The Story of Engines | 138 |
Space Underground | 123 | Strange New Shapes At Sea | 158 |
The Microscope | 164 | ||
Real Life Adventures | Interest | ||
Escape to Climb | 35 | The Charge Of The Old Brigade | 73 |
Edward Whymper | 48 | Puzzle Page | 114 |
Rendezvous With Cochise | 56 | Dragons, Dinosaurs and Dugongs | 116 |
Cecil Rhodes | 93 | Windjammers Sail On | 147 |
Tracks Across The Snow | 98 | Bells Down | 169 |
William Murdock | 102 | Hobbies | |
Fridtjof Nansen | 150 | Build Your Own Rocket Base | 44 |
Nature | Simple Wizardry | 71 | |
Lively Lizards | 26 | Silhouette Book Ends | 80 |
Nature Plays Tricks | 50 | Eagle Coder | 131 |
Know Your Trees | 142 | Play Marble Bagatelle | 137 |