Eureka was an effort by ex-Eagle editor Derek Lord to launch a comic for young people in a similar vein to Eagle all those years before. There may have been more than one dummy produced (it was a project that had a long gestation period) but this is a copy of the dummy I have, A4 sized, full colour, 16 pages
page 2 has a tiny signature - WMS - which is for Bill Storie.
Here Derek Lord sets out his vision for Eureka
Show horse rustlers, by, it looks like the signature says, Nigel Park______ but the speech bubble (in frame 4) obliterates most of the surname. Very frustrating. The signature MUST be that of Nigel Parkinson but it's very unlike his usual cartoon-y style. This is the best art in the whole thing and is very much in the style of someone like Harry Lindfield or Mike Noble.
Here's a close-up on that signature
John Ryan supplied this Captain Pugwash drawingWilliam Rudling drew Chloe
William Rudling also wrote & drew The Adventurers
I've since found this link to ace cartoonist Nigel Parkinson's blog for a strip that was intended for Eureka (but wasn't included in the dummy, above) instead the dummy had this (below) version of Hadrian's Heroes in it instead...art by GM (this was Gordon Matthews) I prefer Nigel Parkinson's version!
Jeremy Briggs covered Eureka for Down the Tubes here and here - both the articles are well worth a read as they give a more detailed look at Eureka.
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