Dan Dare,
I can still remember the first page of the first copy of the Eagle comic that I bought.
I wish I had kept it.
I bought the 1st edition. The day it was published.
It included an invitation to join The Eagle Club, with prizes for the 1st dozen or so joiners from each part of the country.
For the NE of England the prize was a trip to the Headingly Test Match.
My application, complete with 1/- postal order, went into the mail on the same day.
My membership number was 100,008.
I didn't get to Headingly.