1983: EAGLE 71-82

This is it!  The end of the EAGLE's short-lived dalliance with photo-stories (and nice paper.  And multiple text features.  And celebrity culture.  And... the list goes on) but, at least, it bowed out in style.  Another four ACTION FORCE mini-comics, a spot of aggro with breakfast broadcaster TV-am (more on that in a separate entry) and readership appeasing spud guns ("mash up the Mekon) and, naturally, another Frisbee-thingy.

The Eagle itself continued for many years.  But it was never this special again.

ISSUE 71

30 July 1983

Free ACTION FORCE mini-comic issue 2: SAS Force.

ISSUE 72

6 August 1983

ISSUE 73

13 August 1983

Free ACTION FORCE mini-comic issue 3.

ISSUE 74

20 August 1983

ISSUE 75

27 August 1983

Free ACTION FORCE mini-comic issue 4.

ISSUE 76

3 September 1983

ISSUE 77

10 September 1973

Free ACTION FORCE mini-comic issue 5

ISSUE 78

17 September 1983

Last photo-story issue.

Contains half-page rebuttal of TV-am News story related to The Hand.

Relaunch announcement.  The wording carefully avoids any mention of the photo-stories becoming traditional comic strips.

ISSUE 79

24 September 1983

First relaunched issue.  The format (inferior printing and paper) now matches BATTLE, 2000AD and TIGER.

ISSUE 80

1 October 1983

ISSUE 81

8 October 1983

ISSUE 82

15 October 1983