Where Eagles Dare
Aug. 21st, 2023 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosanicusThis week my mum has truly embraced semi retirement and begun pulling out boxes upon boxes of what she refers to as "Uncle Reg's Clart" alongside various things given to us by my (living) grandparents when they downsized last year. What this amounts to is that the living room is now chock full of both Lego and a lot of musty boxes which, in today's case, have disgorged about twelve dozen copies of The Eagle from the early fifties.
As it turns out, these Eagles include almost all of the numbers which serialised Biggles in the Blue, about a third of in the Gobi and the issue with the story which turned out to be plagiarised from the mammoth bit of Charter Pilot. All in all I feel very pleased about this, especially because I remembered there had been some Biggles in the Eagle moments before I glanced down and saw the front page header reading NEW BIGGLES STORY BEGINNING THIS ISSUE. Sometimes serendipity strikes.
Anyway Biggles in the Blue is already delivering in spades. What is it delivering? Hard to say. But von Stalhein seems very disappointed that Biggles won't drink wine with him.
Some of the illustrations in The Eagle are closer to how I imagine & Co. in my head but I can't say I'm convinced by this EvS.
As it turns out, these Eagles include almost all of the numbers which serialised Biggles in the Blue, about a third of in the Gobi and the issue with the story which turned out to be plagiarised from the mammoth bit of Charter Pilot. All in all I feel very pleased about this, especially because I remembered there had been some Biggles in the Eagle moments before I glanced down and saw the front page header reading NEW BIGGLES STORY BEGINNING THIS ISSUE. Sometimes serendipity strikes.
Anyway Biggles in the Blue is already delivering in spades. What is it delivering? Hard to say. But von Stalhein seems very disappointed that Biggles won't drink wine with him.
Some of the illustrations in The Eagle are closer to how I imagine & Co. in my head but I can't say I'm convinced by this EvS.
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Date: 2023-08-21 04:54 pm (UTC)I love In the Blue, despite the regrettable parts, EvS going on about wine and snake-charmers is amazing, and there's another scene later on that's responsible for a fair number of fics...
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Date: 2023-08-21 05:02 pm (UTC)I will absolutely post some of the illos once I've finished. There's a lovely one of Biggles from the serial of Gobi, which I probably won't read in this state since we've got, as I noted, about a third of the issues and none of them are consecutive.
I look forward to finding out what moment this is...
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Date: 2023-08-21 07:09 pm (UTC)no subject
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