Eagle (British comics) Riders of the Range and P.C. 49 helped ensure a weekly circulation of almost a million copies, but it was the adventures of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, which most captivated readers. Created by Hampson—now a full-time staff artist with his own team—Dan Dare was the UK's first science-fiction comic strip of any significance. Readers were thrilled by the square-jawed British spaceman's weekly exploits, and his struggles with The Mekon. While Morris (who by now had resigned from St James) edited the magazine from Hulton's premises at Shoe Lane in London, the comic was created in a converted bakery
Who Is Ireland's Enemy? Who Is Ireland's Enemy? Who Is Ireland's Enemy? is an Irish poem authored by Brian O'Higgins as part of the Irish nationalist response to the First World War and became popular during the conscription crisis of 1918. It first featured in "Irish Freedom" in September 1914, in an edition entitled "Germany Is Not Ireland's Enemy"; that year the journal was suppressed by the British authorities. O'Higgins was a member of Sinn Féin (later a president of the party) and was opposed to Irishmen fighting in the First World War. O'Higgins' poem was one of the more visceral of the anti-recruitment