When the Junior Express weekly  began in September 1954, its readers , in addition to enjoying  the weekly Jeff Hawke adventure could also

collect Jeff Hawke Space gen cards with each issue of the comic. In the fifties, collecting cards of all kinds was still very popular and although cigarette cards had already had their  heyday in the twenties and thirties, cards of the same shape and size continued to be a popular item in packets of tea, toothpowder and numerous other  household items.  The Jeff Hawke – Space gen  series comprised 25 cards in all and showed their young readers what space travel might be like in the not too distant future of Jeff Hawke’s world. Some cards involved imagined spacecraft and technology while others presented astronomical and science facts, somewhat like the “Out into Space” series presented at the same time by Brooke Bond tea. In some upcoming posts we will be presenting images ( both front and back)  of all 25 cards from the Jeff Hawke series.     Skipper Prossit