DAN DARE THE EAGLE STORY

the story of the great British Comic for boys,

[@starcruzer1596]

I went to an excellent Dan Dare exhibition at Southport Museum 2019. I later tracked down the original studio where Frank Hampson and his team drew up pages for Eagle. Love this video thanks, though a new upload at higher res would make it even better.

[@Ballinalower]

Wonderful! Thankyou. My dad, Norman Price, was a journalist in Southport at the time, and a friend of Frank Hampson and Marcus Morris. Some early drafts of the Dan Dare were shown to me and my friends for our reaction. You can see us and my Dad at that time on the video response I have left. I grew up to create and make The Tomorrow People and other shows for ITV and for American Television. Dan Dare was the spark of inspiration that set me on that path. Roger Price.

[@clouddog2393]

The Eagle was my favourite boys comic when l was a kid in the 60's . The artwork was incredible especially for "Heros (?) the Spartan" . Dan Dare and Digby were great characters too and the Mekon was and still is one of my favourite evil villains . lt was also an intelligent comic with good stories and information along with the cartoon strips . Happy days and a good time to be a youngster .

[@ubdisani]

thanks for comments, long live Dan Dare.

[@brianplum6690]

what a great and natural talent he was, such wonderful colour work and mood settings.

[@arrowe1969]

Well put together film.

[@imbis253fois]

good documentary

[@Toracube]

Fantastic !!

[@Areashiftybun]

Brilliant video! I love Eagle Comics!

[@ubdisani]

@HorrorOfMike Yes I made this documentary a few years ago, it was shown at last years Eagle Convention in Southport.

[@boosterjonesable]

I don't live all that far from Southport! Plus (in spite of my tender 27 years) I'm a BIG 'Dan Dare' and 'Eagle' fan and I'm glad that this vid was so well informed

[@ahdkaw]

i won a copy of brian bloodaxe for the c64 from eagle comics before it merged with and then merged with and merged with...

[@dnavid]

current technology could give us the real Dan Dare as he should be in Frank's style right out of the Eagle but when?

[@davidrichard2765]

I’m sure that someone , probably Frank himself, appeared on the Granada Television local news at about 6.30 way back in the early 1960’s. He had some illustrations, I only remember a Treen being shown. This would be at about the same time the Beatles appeared on the same programme, before national fame. I said they were rubbish. Does anyone else remember possibly Frank Hampson on TV?

[@BearCubster]

The first adamski comic book character. Dan Dare

[@HorrorOfMike]

This was great, I'm attempting to collect every issue of the later run, but I want to start an original collection as well. Did you make this documentary?

[@jikorijo4516]

Where did you get the interview with Hampson at 7:35?

[@xwsftassell]

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