About Reg Eves
Lived 1892 – 1972 (aged 79–80). Reg Eves was a comics artist.
Reginald Thompson Eves (12 December 1892 – 1972) was a British editor and writer of comics and story papers for the Amalgamated Press.
He joined the company in 1908, and during the First World War was assistant editor, under editor John Nix Pentelow, of the boys' story papers The Magnet and The Gem, also writing many of the stories. In 1954 he was the editor of Lion, a new weekly comic launched to compete with Hulton Press' Eagle. Despite having no interest in science fiction, he was under orders from management to have a space hero to compete with Dan Dare, and commissioned Captain Condor from writer Frank S. Pepper.
Eves retired in 1959, when AP was acquired by the Mirror Group and renamed Fleetway Publications. He died in 1972.
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Who was Reg Eves?
British cartoonist
When was Reg Eves born?
Reg Eves was born on 12 December 1892 in London Borough of Hackney.
When did Reg Eves die?
Reg Eves died in 1972.
What was Reg Eves's occupation?
Reg Eves was a comics artist.
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