Jeff Hawke club – a word to the uninitiated

Prossit avatarThis post is aimed at those who have stumbled across this website but are not familiar with the Jeff Hawke club. The JHC is a unique and very successful publishing venture, re-printing for the first time ever the entire run of Jeff Hawke stories , probably the greatest sci-fi strip of the 20th century.Created and drawn by Sydney Jordan, Jeff Hawke ran consecutively as a syndicated strip in two British newspapers from 1954 until 1988 and was a sci-fi strip aimed at an adult audience. Its themes are subtle and thought provoking – its artwork mature and realistic. The entire corpus comprises 111 stories and until the JHC began its work, only six of these were available in reprinted form in English. To date , since its formation in 2001, the club, with full co-operation of Sydney Jordan, has re-published 93 of the stories in a series of large-format books, which reproduce the strips ( from master-prints  in the newspaper archives) at their original size. Accompanying each story are extensive notes, both by Sydney and by well known science author and collaborator Duncan Lunan.

The books are published three times a year and are available exclusively to members of the Jeff Hawke club. Membership fee is paid annually and for this you receive the next three books as they become available. Membership also allows you to purchase all the other books in the series and thus to obtain the entire collection of Jeff Hawke stories to date.This is a unique opportunity to own and read this groundbreaking sci-fi series, available nowhere else.

Annual membership rates ( including regular postage)  are as follows ( assuming that you pay via Paypal)

U.K. £28.50        E.U.  £34         Rest of the world   £41

U.K. £26 ( if paid by cheque, bank transfer etc)  Contact our club secretary at the email address at the bottom of the page for more details

 

Skipper Prossit                                               (some of the JHC books below – click to enlarge) Stanmp Allbum- covers_edited-1 copy

 

 

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