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If anyone has Eagle for 1958 and/or 1959 and would be willing to search through them for an advertisement, would they contact me by PM, please.

Thank you.

Does anyone remember the free adventure comics given away in Shreddies ?

There were two sets, possibly totalling 8 comics in all; the first set appeared in March of 1961, the second in August of 1961. They were about the adventures of Captain Mike Wyatt and Stewardess Sue Foster, who solved crime ...

Sorry to be negative, but as a geek I guess I was hoping for more history and less blah. But I'm not the target audience for Woman's Hour. No doubt others thought it was great.

I have yet to listen to them all properly, but I had the same hopes and was similarly disappointed. Perhaps my original ...

I forgot to mention that the stories are on Radio 4.

Jane Purcell has written five fifteen-minute dramas about Girls' Coimcs from the fifties to the eighties; they will be broadcast Monday (23rd July) to Friday (27th July) at 10.45am & 7.45pm and have the overall title 43 Years in the Third Form . The Radio Times describes them as 'A celebration of ...

Corporal Clott wrote: The Eagle was a veritable gold mine for adverts.

Can you recall if it's a good source for ceral adverts?

I don't know if this is the sort of thing which would interest anyone else, but I've made a start at compiling a list of cereal advertisements in children's comics, here:

http://www.technodelic.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cereals/cereals.htm

If anyone has copies of advertisements not listed, scans of ...