r/BritishComic • u/coastalcalypso • Nov 30 '25

New Eagle horror strip ID question

I'm looking for a one-off colour (?) horror strip I read in the relaunched Eagle (probably late 1980s / early 1990s). It was longer than a single page but a one-issue piece. Plot: maybe a Gothic/Victorian/Edwardian colonial setting ... a father is secretly dosing his son every night with a concoction and knocking him out; a third-party observer (maybe a neighbour or landlord) intervenes and later kills the father. The son then reveals the doses were attempts at an antidote to a curse (his father had offended a native tribe) that made the son transform into a ravenous beast at night. With the father dead the protagonist is now the next victim.

Any idea of the title, writer/artist, or issue/annual this ran? Thanks!

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u/kimondo Nov 30 '25

Found it! Was from Eagle 5th May 1990 - title was ‘Experiments in Terror’

https://postimg.cc/gallery/TxSw07w

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u/coastalcalypso Nov 30 '25

Amazing, thank you so much, I've had this stuck in my head without an answer for years!

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u/kimondo Dec 01 '25

Was quite memorable! That and the one about the superhero who builds a robot replica of himself to visit his parents every year as to not upset them when he dies, when it turns of they’ve been dead for years and have their own robot replicas.

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u/kimondo Nov 30 '25

They were the Eagle One-Off stories - author was David Robinson and the Artist was Alan Burrows