Dan Dare football boots

I'm always happy to feature unusual bits of Eagle merchandise on the blog. 

There were...

Dan Dare roller skates here

Dan Dare hairbrush here

Dan Dare tie clip here

Eagle stationery here

Eagle club notebook here

With the compliments of the Eagle club here

Eagle / Girl table tennis medals here

Eagle club cycle pennant here

Dan Dare gyro jeep here

Dan Dare space shooting here

Dan Dare rocket ball here

Dan Dare beach ball here

Dan Dare bagatelle here

Eagle report to members (1951) here

Dan Dare field glasses here

Dan Dare interplanetary dominoes here

Dan Dare space-ship construction game here

Dan Dare draughts here

Dan Dare transfers (1) here

Dan Dare transfers (2) here

Riders of the Range painting book here

Dan Dare models here

Silver Eagler here

Space-cup here

Dan Dare stationery here

Eagle cricket bat here

Dan Dare secret ink here

Dan Dare mask here

Dan Dare tie here

and now it's the turn of the Dan Dare football boots (which sold recently for £89 - they were signed by Kevin Keegan). Look at these for a 'proper' pair of boots!

UPDATED: David Wright books

For anyone (like me) who's struggled to keep up with the recent flourish of Carol Day (newspaper strip) reprint books that have been published over the last few years here's my handy guide to what you've missed so far...

UPDATE (22nd Oct 2026) Judy episodes 120-197 is available to buy here for £35

UPDATE (22/05/26) - 2 more books (albeit not Carol Day books)...

David Wright's Judy - order it via the Book Palace here

David Wight's Jo - reserve it via the Book Palace here

2 hardback books to start with... 

David Wright's Carol Day - Lance Hallam

David Wright's Carol Day - Jack Slingsby

and then there were 3 softcover books...

David Wright's Carol Day - Cousin Hugo

David Wright's Carol Day - Last of the line

David Wright's Carol Day - Riverside racket

These three books were also available in a slipcase edition...

There were also hardcover & softcover editions of this 'taster' volume produced

The best place to get these books seems to be the Book Palace website - search here

UPDATED: To help pass the time in the iso-cubes

I've looked at Comics calendars before (see here and here) but didn't realise there had ever been any Judge Dredd calendars before until a conversation about it popped up on the '2000AD & Judge Dredd tat and chat' facebook group.

UPDATE (8th November 2026) - now with the 2027 wall calendar added to this listing...

I started looking for traditional 'wall' calendars for this post but I've decided to expand it to look at all types of calendars. All new material is in red.

So with thanks to Ian Anorak Hollingsworth (and ebay!) here we go...

The 1989 calendar - presumably published by Titan as the images look like the covers from their reprint volumes

Poster calendar for 1993

Judge Dredd calendar 1993

given away free as follows:

Megazine 10, Sep 05-18 1992 = January, February November, December

Megazine 11, Sep 19-Oct 5 1992 = March, April, September, October

Megazine 12, Oct 06-19 1992 = May, June, July, August

all images c/o ebay seller hyperbOrean

Poster calendar 1994

This art by John McCrea

This art by Chris Halls

Free with Megazine #38 (October 2-15)

Poster calendar 2003

free with Megazine issue #201 (dated January 2003)





Poster calendar 2004



I'm unclear where this originated from


Wall Calendar for 2016 (front and back cover)

There's a more detailed look at this here

Wall Calendar for 2017

UPDATED: Ewoks - Marvel UK

UPDATE: 17th October 2026 - now with covers for issues 6 & 10 added

Michael Carroll's timeline of Marvel UK comics (here) has an array of interestingly short-lived comics on that I thought I should create cover galleries for them. Sometimes this is easier said than done but let's start off with the 10 issue Ewoks comic from 1987-88.

Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #1, November 1987, 45p

Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #2, December 1987, 45p

Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #3, January 1988, 45p

Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #4, February 1988, 45p

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Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #5, March 1988, 45p

Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #6, April 1988, 45p

Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #7, May 1988, 45p

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Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #8, June 1988, 45p

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Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #9, July 1988, 45p

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Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #10, August 1988, 45p

Commando at the National Army Museum (2011) - part 4

Looking through some of photos the other day I came across a bunch from 2011 that had somehow never been recycled onto the blog. To make up for that here's my first batch of images from the 2011/12 Commando themed exhibition that ran at the National Army Museum (in London's Chelsea). My original review for it is here.

Part 1 of my photos were here

Part 2 of my photos were here

Part 3 of my photos were here

Scott Montgomery

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