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2 unusual facts about Macdonald Hastings


Macdonald Hastings

In 1951, he served at the “Special Investigator” for the Eagle, a publication which involved the fictional character Dan Dare, a spaceman, and which aimed to both entertain children and teach good morals.

He was editor of the Strand Magazine between 1946 and 1950, after which he was recruited by Rev Marcus Morris to write for a new boys' comic, The Eagle.



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Staff writers included MacDonald Hastings, Lorna Hay, Sydney Jacobson, J.B. Priestley, Lionel Birch, James Cameron, Fyfe Robertson, Anne Scott-James, Robert Kee, and Bert Lloyd; many notable freelancer writers contributed, as well, including George Bernard Shaw, Dorothy Parker, and William Saroyan.