Monday, January 16, 2017

EAGLE promoting POW! in 1967

In my previous post the other day (click here) I showed a few pages from Pow! No.1 on the 50th anniversary of the comic. To follow up, here's how Pow! was promoted back in January 1967 in the pages of its companion comic Eagle. 

 The irony is that when Hulton were publishing it in the 1950s, Eagle had been initially created as an alternative to American comic imports, and now here it was, published by Odhams, promoting comics that featured reprints of American comic strips. Even Eagle couldn't escape the fact that British kids loved American pop culture.


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5 comments:

  1. John TilesMonday, 16 January 2017 at 04:38:00 GMT

    Uggh. I hated those adverts coercing children to join the military.

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  2. Lew StringerMonday, 16 January 2017 at 10:10:00 GMT

    Yes, they stopped publishing those in comics a long time ago thankfully.

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  3. B SmithTuesday, 17 January 2017 at 02:21:00 GMT

    For a minute there i thought Tom was going to tell us about the evils of smoking.

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  4. KenTuesday, 17 January 2017 at 09:05:00 GMT

    Were not the action war stories of heroic British forces in comic strips the best piece of sublime recruiting posters for the Army, Navy and Airforce?

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  5. Lew StringerTuesday, 17 January 2017 at 12:51:00 GMT

    I think so too, Ken. Which may be another reason I preferred the Power Comics as they rarely featured war stories.

    B Smith; yes it does have the look of those anti-smoking ads doesn't it? :)

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