Eagle Comic (the 80s version)

With Free Doomlord Photostory!

The original Eagle as way before my time but I remember when they relaunched this classic british comic in the eighties.

Dan Dare and the Mekon were back (and brilliant) but so were a whole load of great new stories perfect for little boys with healthy obsessions with death adn distruction.

I remember the cool mini-frisbee 'space spinner' that came with issue one - you could throw it and it would kind off hover in mid-air like a UFO. Very cool.

Eagle was different to other boys comics at the time because it featured photostories - like you get in Viz today or in the girls comics like Jackie (which of course I never read!!). Very dated now but they had a kind of magic at the time.

Also I seem to remember eagle doing some 3D comic stips complete with headache inducing blue/green cardboard glasses and these were just the dogs nuts back then.

My favourtie strip from Eagle though had to be DOOMLORD. This alien-cum-demon weirdo could transfer into peoples souls through touch even after he was dead, and was actually pretty scary at the time.

Anyone fancy knocking up a Doomlord outfit for Halloween for me?