An assortment of mid-20th century British children’s publications, consisting of weekly comic magazines and hardcover annuals. The lot includes bagged copies of Eagle, notably the Special Second-Birthday Number, Vol. 3 No. 1, dated 10 April 1952, featuring Dan Dare: The Red Moon Mystery with Frank Hampson cover art, and Eagle and Swift Vol. 14 No. 10, dated 9 March 1963. Hardcover volumes include Eagle Annual 1966, Eagle Sports Annual No. 6, Eagle Football Annual, and Charles Chilton’s Western Annual: Riders of the Range. Character-based annuals include Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future and The Official Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons Annual. The collection also features Girl Annual Number 2, another Girl annual, and a Thomas the Tank Engine title from the Railway Series. Modern retrospective publications include The Best of Girl: Sister Paper to Eagle and Eagle Annual: The Best of the 1950s Comic. Several modern issues of Eagle Times: The Journal of the Eagle Society are also present. Publishers include Hulton Press and Longacre Press.
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