The Eagle was a British comic first published on 14 April 1950. It closed in April 1969. In March 1982 the comic was resurrected, closing again in the issue dated January 1994.
The most famous strip to appear in The Eagle was that of Dan Dare, subtitled 'Pilot of the Future', a science fiction escapade wherein the eponymous hero incessantly battled incipient pan-galactic disaster, usually precipitated by the Mekon.