Sunday, 28. June 2009, 02:22:14
the eagle comic, Mekon, the mekon, dan dare
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In
an earlier post, I talked briefly about The Eagle comic book that was a feature of my childhood.
In The Eagle, Dan Dare waged constant war against the galactic enemy, the evil Mekon. Here's a picture of the Mekon (from good old Wikipedia):
Images of yesteryear.
Saturday, 27. June 2009, 14:27:52
Desparate Dan, eagle, beano, dandy
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We used to read comic books when we were kids. Yes, I know comics are read today, maybe by a bit of a cult following.
But when we were kids, I remember I got the Beano and the Dandy and the Eagle, I think once a week, although the Eagle was less frequent, I think. The Eagle ran for a few years in the 1950s and 1960s.
I remember The Eagle as a sci-fi thing, where galactic wars constantly raged, the evil character being the Mekon, a little green fella with an enormous head housing an enormous brain. The comic was a glossy paper book, which made it better than the others.
The Beano and the Dandy ran on alternate weeks, rough paper productions, eagerly read by a grubby little boy, ha ha.
One of the main characters in either the Beano or the Dandy was Desparate Dan, a tough guy out in the American West. He had a huge chest and a prodigious chin, he ate cow pies, not as you might think, but pies with a whole cow in them. The horns used to stick out to demonstrate this.
WIDGETIZE