I am a long time lurker on the forums for both www.comicbookrealm.com and www.comicbookpriceguide.com and I placed a post on both the other day asking how popular back issue of British comics were over the pond. Sadly the response was that a lot of people had heard of 2000 AD and Judge Dredd but that was about it.
So I have decided to try and post about different stories that appeared in some of the comic of my youth.
First up is Day of the Eagle which was in the Battle Picture Weekly.
The story started in the first issue of the comic date 8th March 1957 and ran till 24th May 1975.
This was the first story to feature Mike Nelson code named The Eagle.
The Story is basically a rip of Fredrick Forsyths Day of The Jackal but with Nelson being task to kill Hitter.
The story was written by British comic book veteran Eric Hebden and the art work up till the last issue was done by Patrick Wright with the last issue being done by Barrie Mitchell.
The Day of the Eagle spawn manly sequels written by John Wagner, Gerry Finley-Day,Pat Mills,Alan Hebden and Chris Lowder with art by Wright,Mitchel,Geoff Campion,Eduard Vano and Masip and appeared in the Battle comic and Annuals till 1981.
Bellow is the full episode of the story from an actual copy of Battle Picture Weekly #2
If you would like a copy of Battle Picture Weekly buy it here
If you want to read the full story online click here
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