Jeff Hawke
Often regarded as one of the most important science fiction comics ever released.
! Trivia:
In the strip H1760, published 21 November 1959, it is possible to see a stone that commemorates the first human landing on the Moon, noting that it happened on 4 August 1969.
Thus, Sydney Jordan and William Patterson forecast the real date of this event with an error of only two weeks, ten years before Neil Armstrong made the first descent to the Moon surface on July 21!
The greatest space adventurer and fighter of interstellar wars is JEFF HAWKE, the James Bond of the galaxies.
The cartoon spaceman has won many awards for his creator Sydney Jordan. Fantasy is Jordan's great asset as a draughtsman and writer. He moves you a million miles in a twink and his space perspectives are masterly.
Sydney Jordan was born in Dundee, Scotland. By the age of ten he was drawing 'science fiction' pictures of a kind; building model airplanes to satisfy a passion for World War I aircraft, looking at the stars through an old naval telescope. Thus was sown the seeds of his career.
The artist was trained as an aeronautical engineer. Aircraft and space seem to provide the widest possible scenario for the strip hero he had in mind.
The strip JEFF HAWKE first appeared in the Daily Express on 15th February 1954.
A typical Jordan thought:
"The history of man is the story of 800 ghosts, standing at my back. Only 800 ancestors ago, I was a hominoid, just emerging from the ape. And 650 ancestors ago, I was still living in a cave."
"Yet think - today man's footprint is on the moon. On this time-scale Jeff Hawke's journeys to the stars are not fantasy. They are the events of tomorrow."
Jeff Hawke Episode List
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1 Space Rider
2 The Martian Invasion
3 The Search For Asteron
4 The Threat Of The Past
5 Opposite Power
6 Sanctuary
7 Unquiet Island
8 The Castaway
9 Out Of Touch
10 The Dream Pedlars
11 Poles Apart
12 Sacrifice
13 Time Out Of Mind
14 Overlord
15 Survival
16 Wondrous Lamp
17 Counsel For The Defense
18 Pastmaster
19 Immortal Toys
20 The Ambassadors
21 The Gamesman
22 A Test Case
23 Pass The Parcel
24 The Changeling
25 Rip Van Haddow
26 Prodigal Son
27 Uncanny Deep
28 Winner Loses All
29 Faery Land Forlorn
30 A Foreign Body
31 Moonstruck
32 The Helping Hand
33 Anti-gravity Man
34 Made In Birmingham
35 The Oil Rig
36 Incognito
37 The Great Atlantic Crossing
38 Getaway
39 Ghost Errant
40 A Word Of Advice
41 The Intelligent Ones
42 Wildcat
43 Overland
44 The Engine That Worked On Grass
45 The Hole In Space
46 The Venusian Club
47 Cataclysm
48 The Poltergeist
49 Rogue Star
50 The Day The Moon Nearly Exploded
51 The Strange Ship
52 Daughter Of Eros
53 S. O. S.
54 Rescue Party
55 Chacondar!
56 The Book Of The Worlds
57 Time Is Out Of Joint
58 Someday I'll Find You
59 The Bees On Daedalus
60 Here Be Tygers
61 Selena
62 Sitting Tenants
63 Shorty's Secret
64 On The Run
65 The Comet's Tale
66 The First Person Plural
67 The Winds Of Mars
68 Moratorro
69 Heir Apparent
/and many, many more….