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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Uggh. I hated those adverts coercing children to join the military.
Yes, they stopped publishing those in comics a long time ago thankfully.
For a minute there i thought Tom was going to tell us about the evils of smoking.
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?
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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