Description: I Will Always Combine Postage.Read My Descriptions, See My Feedback, View My Photos, Visit My Other ListingsAll Graphic Novels are posted in bubble wrap in rigid padded envelopesAll photographs are of the item you are bidding on. I do not use stock shots. This oversized paperback beautifully reprints original material in a size unmatched in subsequent editions. Jeff Hawke Book 2 Counsel for the Defence.Publisher: Titan Books Published: April 1987 1st Edition. One of my favourites, first read it at school at its original printing and have returned to it over the decades ever since. Despite its age its ideas remain very modern. "Counsel for the Defence” by Sydney Jordan and Willie Patterson. Cover by Brian Bolland. Thought of as one of the most influential and intelligent comic strips ever published, Jeff Hawke is a high point in adult-oriented science- fiction storytelling! Jeff Hawke is once more forced to be an ambassador for humankind, as strange aliens make contact with humanity. A mysterious alien toys with time and becomes the "Pastmaster;" and an excavation unearths mysterious artifacts of incredible power in "The Immortal Toys" Willie Patterson's scripts make Jeff Hawke's plots and characters truly compelling, and Sydney Jordan's groundbreaking artwork fully capture the peculiarities of the aliens in Jeff's universe! softcover Dimensions: 22 cm x 28 cm. 9-in. x 11.5 inches. 90 pages Black & White. Original Cover Price: £4.95Condition is near mint. The covers and spine have minimal wear, retaining their full reflectivity and gloss undiminished despite their 30+ years. Inside pages are clean, white and retain the crispness and vitality evident in their first reading. All pages are firmly attached to the spine. Jeff Hawke Jeff Hawke was a British science fiction comic strip created by Sydney Jordan. It was published in the Daily Express from 15 February 1955 to 18 April 1974, by which point Jordan had "written or co-written and drawn 6,474 episodes." Despite its obscurity in English-speaking countries, it is often regarded as one of the most important science fiction comics ever released, especially in Italy and Scandinavian countries. See below for more info on Jeff Hawke and his creators >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> All comics are from my own collection which I am disposing of.All photographs are of the comic you are bidding on. I do not use stock shots.I have additional cover and internal photographs, please send me your email address and the issues you are considering biding on and I will send you copies.I try to create short sets - usually with 6 or less related issues – to provide the reader with a complete or near complete story arc or theme. This provides a better reading experience and can also encourage a jump in point for new companies, characters or titles.I aim for honest grading and will always describe any shortcomings including the presence of price stickers.All are packed securely.I identify “my favourites” as such. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they are better than my other listings - although I guess I would argue that they are!! You judge.I will always combine postage costs for multiple purchases. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I have collecting them. Jeff Hawke Jeff Hawke was a British science fiction comic strip created by Sydney Jordan. It was published in the Daily Express from 15 February 1955 to 18 April 1974, by which point Jordan had "written or co-written and drawn 6,474 episodes." Despite its obscurity in English-speaking countries, it is often regarded as one of the most important science fiction comics ever released, especially in Italy and Scandinavian countries. Publication history Sydney Jordan was a graduate of the Aeronautical Technical School in Reading. He long sought to draw a fantastic comic where he could exploit his skills in drawing aeroplanes. In 1955 he met Eric Souster and Jim Gilbert in London, two friends with whom he had served in the R.A.F. Together they created the character of Jeff Hawke. At first Jeff Hawke, presented as an ex-R.A.F. pilot (just like Jordan) was a rather ordinary, Flash Gordon-like heroic character. The plots were centred around ordinary adventure and science fiction themes common in pulp comics and fiction of the age, and at this stage the drawings were only of average quality. Nevertheless the strip was good enough to be published daily in the Daily Express. In 1956 William Patterson joined his childhood friend Jordan, at first writing only the dialogue. Prior to this he did work on the Children's Encyclopedia for Amalgamated Press, also doing stories for Dan Dare and war comics. However after a few years he began to produce plot lines and stories as well. This led to a dramatic improvement in the quality of the comic. Patterson made Jeff Hawke the first science fiction comic strip for adults, not just children or adolescents. Jordan, now concentrating entirely on drawing, improved his style to a highly suggestive, realistic, contrasted black-and-white mark. The Patterson-Jordan period is considered the "true" Jeff Hawke by most. Willie Patterson was born in 1929 in Perth, Scotland, and met his future wife Anne (born in 1929) at Perth Academy where they both studied the classics and became sweethearts. They married in 1951, aged 22, and had three daughters - Chrys (born in 1952), Frances (born in 1961) and Eva (born in 1966). Throughout the fifties and sixties Willie Patterson travelled between Perth and London, by sleeper train, to fulfil obligations at the Daily Express, and also worked at home on the Jeff Hawke scripts. Using an electric typewriter on a specially made large wooden desk, listening to operas and classical music. He was a larger than life character who organised fireworks displays for the community and parties for his children. His parents and sister lived in Perth and Willie liked to spend time with them, going down to the local pub with his father for a wee dram. Family was important to him. In 1969, following a number of stresses and pressures, William Patterson's contract to write Jeff Hawke came to an end. He was not in good mental health and remained in London, separated from his family who stayed in Perth. Willie Patterson's physical health also was affected and he died in 1986, aged only 57 years old. He was laid to rest in Kensal Green cemetery, attended by his daughters Chrys Muirhead and Frances Patterson, and Sydney Jordan. The 1986 Titan Books republication of Jeff Hawke, Book Two, contains a testimonial to the life of Willie Patterson, by Sydney Jordan. Jordan took back care of both stories and drawings, but without Patterson the quality of the strip declined again. Finally, on 18 April 1974 the Daily Express published its last Jeff Hawke strip. In 1977, however, comics artist Brian Bolland was approached by Jordan to ghost some episodes, and remarked that by this point fellow artist - "active in the days of comic fandom" and soon to turn professional - Paul Neary had "already done quite a few." Bolland drew 15 episodes, and "Syd touched up some of the faces, a few details here and there, to make them look a bit more like him." By this point, "although the Express owned the rights to the strip, they were not printing it," but since it had a strong European following, these new episodes (Bolland believes) "got collected in anthologies in French and Spanish," but not in the UK except briefly in "the fanzine Eureka." Jordan later tried to revamp the character by publishing a similar strip called Lance McLane in the Scottish newspaper Daily Record. After this failed to catch on, Jordan came up with an embarrassing plot hole in which McLane somehow transformed himself into Hawke. However the resuscitated strip never recovered the original brilliance of the Patterson period: Jordan left more and more work to his unnamed helpers, and rapidly the strip fell into oblivion. Themes Jeff Hawke started as a conventional hero-vs-aliens science fiction action comic, but under Patterson's direction it quickly developed its own individual style. The three frames format of the daily strip made it hard to create vivid action scenes, so the stories centred more on dialogue than on action and violence (although these do occur). The Jeff Hawke character himself became more and more focused on reasoning, diplomacy and moral virtues instead of brute force and bravery, and he is frequently forced by circumstances to be the ambassador of mankind in front of alien species. There are many circumstances in which Jeff Hawke is more an observer than a participant. The real main characters in Jeff Hawke were the aliens. The universe of Jeff Hawke was highly populated with strange alien species that came in contact with humans for various reasons – accidental contact, commercial interests, and so on, but hardly ever for invasion. The plots of Jeff Hawke turned around the seemingly endless, baroque diversity of aliens and their worlds, their contacts with humans, and the ability of Hawke and his friends to manage relationships with so many different entities. The subtle wit of Patterson made the creatures and the plots revolving around them as fascinating as they were amusing, whereas the highly expressive Jordan drawing style fully captured the strangeness of the various worlds and creatures. The aliens were almost always much more technologically advanced and wise than humans, and often the plots were highly critical of various "primitive" aspects of the human race, like pollution. Often in the plots of Jeff Hawke there was a connection between extraterrestrial entities, archaeological mysteries and even supernatural creatures. The god Pan and the devil, among others, appeared in Jeff Hawke strips. There was also a softcore erotic flavour in some strips. For example, there were some instances in which alien creatures took the shape of beautiful young women. Characters Apart from Jeff Hawke himself, there are not many recurring characters in the comic, and almost no stable one. Here are listed the ones that recur the most. Jeff Hawke: A well-educated, ex-pilot, with an outstanding scientific and archaeological knowledge and a seraphic, ironic attitude. He usually wears a sober suit and a necktie, unless when he's forced to use a spacesuit (which happens quite often). Laura: The girlfriend of Jeff Hawke, almost disappears after the first stories. Mac McLean: A Canadian air force pilot, he is Jeff Hawke's aid in many situations and one of the few human recurring characters. Kolvorok: The First Official of the Intergalactic Police. A funny, one-eyed, jellyfish-shaped tentacled alien, it is as verbose as inept. Chalcedon: A gigantic humanoid, and a mischievous, arrogant, clever interstellar criminal. He always manages to escape both Jeff Hawke and the Intergalactic Police. Recognition Despite being published in an English newspaper, Jeff Hawke is practically unknown in English-speaking countries. On the other hand, it gained considerable popularity in Italy, Sweden, Spain, ex-Yugoslavia and some other European countries. In USA, Jeff Hawke was printed in the "Deseret News" and was reprinted in Menomonee Falls Gazette. Jeff Hawke and the Apollo Moon Landings 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. Original model for Jeff Hawke In the introduction to "The Jeff Hawke Book Two: Counsel for the Defence" (Titan Books, 1986), Sydney Jordan states: "The discerning may recognise from my drawings of Hawke, that I used Hans Meyer as a model." South African actor Hans Meyer later went on to feature in a number of TV shows including BBC TV's Colditz as Hauptmann Ullmann. Collected editions In 1985, Nick Landau of Titan Books was finding considerable success with Judge Dredd and other 2000AD collections, and obtained the rights to publish some Jeff Hawke collections, and with them "[n]early 7,000 [copies of] episodes in a huge ungainly pile" from the Express offices. He approached professional fan Brian Bolland, who suggested "Overlord" as the first story to be collected, and duly produced a cover for the collection. A second collection followed soon after, subtitled "Counsel for the Defence," also under a newly commissioned cover from the popular Dredd and Camelot 3000 artist, Bolland. Bolland notes, though, that "[s]ales of the Jeff Hawke collections were obviously disappointing, so there were only two." Plans were already afoot for a third collection, and the shelved book, Bolland reports, would have "contained another great story "The Ambassadors"." In 2008, Titan Books resurrected the Patterson-era comic strip collections in a hardback archival - 'collector's' - format, issued alongside their similar hardback Dan Dare and Charley's War collections, and in tandem with other collections of Daily Express strip favourites Modesty Blaise and James Bond. The first book covered the same contents as the two volumes from nearly twenty-five-years previously; the second volume echoes Bolland's recollection of the mooted contents of the unpublished original third volume. The British Jeff Hawke Club began reprinting Jeff Hawke in its journal, Jeff Hawke's Cosmos, in 2003. Each issue includes story notes on the science featured in the story, and commentary on the origins of the tales from creator Sydney Jordan. In addition to the regular magazine, three special editions - The Martian Quartet, Lunar 10 and Hawke's Notes have also been published.
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Character: Jeff Hawke
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Issue Number: 2
Style: Black & White
Format: Trade Paperback
Grade: Near Mint
Type: Graphic Novel
Features: First Edition
Artist/Writer: Sydney Jordon, Willie Paterson
Universe: Jeff Hawke
Vintage: Yes
Series Title: Jeff Hawke
Publication Year: 1987
Language: English
Publisher: Fleetway
Tradition: UK Comics
Genre: Science Fiction
Story Title: Jeff Hawke Counsel for the Defense
Era: Bronze Age (1970-83)
Date of Issue (MM/YYYY): April 1987
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Ex libri: No