The story was entitled 'The street-arabs' friend' and told the story of Dr Barnardo and how he came to set up the instituition that we would come to know as Barnardo's.
So this follows in the 'tradition' of Eagle publishing true-life (back page) stories and it used two well established Eagle figures to present this story.
Until now I just thought that was the end of this strip, the one-off appearance in the annual, but it turns out I was wrong...
In fact the whole strip was reprinted by Barnardo's in the form of a piece of promotional literature to promote the "Barnardo Helpers' League"
This must count as one of the most obscure pieces of Eagle spin-off publications out there, good luck hunting a copy down!
You can't see it on the scan below very well but there is a note which says "Printed by the Apprentices at the Press of Dr. Barnardo's, Goldings, Hertford, Leaflet No. 3/67" - so I'm guessing this is form 1967??
I have a copy of this and wonder who might like to buy it.
ReplyDeletehi there, this is a rare item but there's probably quite a limited market for it sadly - if you let me have your e-mail address then we can have a chat about it?
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