Hi Woodsy
The cut-away drawings featured in the Eagle comic have been mentioned several times on Moonbase Central.
While I never had the Eagle, I have just picked up a re-print volume containing a good selection of these full colour paintings. To the best of my knowledge, this is the second volume of such Eagle re-prints.
The Eagle Annual of the Cutaways, Edited by Daniel Tatarsky, Orion Books, 2008, contains just over 140 cut-aways from across the years, along with background information. It is a companion volume to The Eagle Annual of the 1950s, and the 1960s.
The Post Office Tower in London (featured in the 1966 Doctor Who story The War Machines); Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; along with boats; spacecraft; The Mersey Tunnel; an American base in Antarctica; a mobile dental surgery; an atomic power station; a Martin Baker ejector seat; Televising the Coronation of Her Majesty; and even the bells of Big Ben (yes, I do know Big Ben is actually one of the bells, not the tower itself).
This is a great book - these cut-aways must have helped to sell as many copies of the Eagle as the adventures of Dan Dare. Mostly two cut-aways per two-page spread. The cover and pages have been given an 'aged' look, to resemble a survivor of the 1950s or 1960s. Hardback.
There was also an earlier volume - The Eagle Book of Cutaways, by L. Ashwell Wood, published by Michael Joseph, 1988. I do not have this, so can not say if there is any overlap in the contents between the two books. This one is landscape (horizontal) format.
Yours Sincerely,
Paul Adams from New Zealand
I also have the book, which is good apart from the "pseudo-ageing" of the page edges. The same thing blighted the companion "Best of Eagle" -I think the earlier Bes tof Eagle edited by Denis Gifford was far better, and I suspect the companion cutaways volume was better than the new one, too (thoug hI don't have it).
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