Eagle Annual 9

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
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