2000AD #57 cover – 1978 Dave Gibbons cover
Artist: Dave Gibbons (All)
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DescriptionFollowing the series of Supercovers (up to Prog 43), 2000AD decided from Progs 46 to 58 to have the first page of the Dan Dare strip each week to also serve as the cover. So on this penultimate cover in that run, there’s quite a lot of dialogue and story exposition. Even so, that ‘first page’ of the strip tended to be so splashy that these covers weren’t really much different to the other covers.And this one is very splashy, as it was episode 2 of the Waterworld story. Dan and Hitman are voicing their angst about the Eagle craft being buffeted by currents twenty miles down in an deep-sea trench of Waterworld. “Another bash like that and we're gonna burst open like a cracked egg!”. (Hmm. The date on the cover was one day before Easter in 1978, so I’m not sure whether that may have prompted the ‘egg’ reference.) The cover is nice and dynamic, with a superbly drawn Eagle craft flying straight at the reader, and the inks are typically crisp. The page was all lettered by Gibbons as well, further demonstrating his supremely steady hand. Social/Sharing |
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Paul Roach 
Member Since 2014
Posted on 11/12/2025
Nils E wrote:
Wow! All this for 9p
Ha ha. Yes, and seven years earlier it might have been labelled as "9 New Earth Pennies". I'd say that 9p felt like quite a lot as a child at the time, but it was definitely worth every last (Galactic) Groat!
Kavi H
Member Since 2018
1 - Posted on 11/12/2025
That Eagle craft looks so damn good!!! amazing 2000 AD cover art addition and early work by Gibbons. congrats!
Paul Roach
Member Since 2014
1 - Posted on 11/12/2025
Kavi H wrote:
That Eagle craft looks so damn good!!! amazing 2000 AD cover art addition and early work by Gibbons. congrats!
Thanks Kavi! Gibbons was always superb at spacecraft and tech.
Peter Sullivan
Member Since 2006
Posted on 11/28/2025
Paul Roach wrote:
Thanks Kavi! Gibbons was always superb at spacecraft and tech.
As a delusional kid I made a pathethic cardboard version of the Eagle craft out of cereal boxes turned inside out, cut and shaped. It had a hatch that opened and some wondows for the pilots made out of cardboard and sellotape. It is funny the insane shit you do as a kid. I also made a bad attempt to turn an old action man into a Marvelman figure but gave up on that one too after painting him for the costume and then realising that he looked silly when I tried to move him as I could not paint all the areas without dismantling him. Double lol.
Paul Roach
Member Since 2014
Posted on 11/29/2025
Peter Sullivan wrote:
As a delusional kid I made a pathethic cardboard version of the Eagle craft out of cereal boxes turned inside out, cut and shaped. It had a hatch that opened and some wondows for the pilots made out of cardboard and sellotape. It is funny the insane shit you do as a kid. I also made a bad attempt to turn an old action man into a Marvelman figure but gave up on that one too after painting him for the costume and then realising that he looked silly when I tried to move him as I could not paint all the areas without dismantling him. Double lol.
I find myself hoping that you still have the cardboard Eagle craft and Marvelman figure, Peter. Or at least photographs. You really must upload images of these to CAF for appreciation and comments, as craft of that level of ambition needs to be shared. Please don't disappoint us.
Peter Sullivan
Member Since 2006
Posted on 1/24/2026
Paul Roach wrote:
I find myself hoping that you still have the cardboard Eagle craft and Marvelman figure, Peter. Or at least photographs. You really must upload images of these to CAF for appreciation and comments, as craft of that level of ambition needs to be shared. Please don't disappoint us.
Long gone, thankfully for posterity. I do however still have my comics I made as a kid, including a fully colour penciled one which had shameless robberies of other artists works and my mutant version of Dredd called Judge Budgie. Lol. A human body and budgie head. No one noticed because of the helmet presumably! And he has some sort of hypnotic mutant power that clouded perceptions. Cameras, you say? Kids do not think logically.
J. Lim
Member Since 2008
1 - Posted on 11/12/2025
Damn! A Gibbons 2000 AD Dan Dare cover ! This looks amazing and oozes the look of a classic sci fi poster. Very Cool!
Peter Sullivan
Member Since 2006
2 - Posted on 11/12/2025
This was one of the covers I dreamed of owning. Gibbons had long sold it when I asked his rep. Then my tastes changed and I gave up on Gibbons and sold or traded all the artwork I had by him. Funny how time changes all things, including obsessions. At one stage I would have jumped into a pit with a hungry wolf to fight for this. Lol. Same thing happened for me with Bolland and O'Neill.
Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005
1 - Posted on 11/12/2025
Great floating head cover with fat outlines! The Eagle heading into an asteroid field brings a hot rod feel served right up to the audience. In this age of Star Wars, the bar had been raised and Gibbons stepped up in the fine tradition of Brit sci-fi illustration.
Miki Annamanthadoo
Member Since 2003
1 - Posted on 11/13/2025
Classic science fiction! Classic Gibbons! What's not to love!
Toni S
Member Since 2019
1 - Posted on 11/15/2025
A very nice cover suerbly drawn by this master! Always loved the 2000Ad magazine format.
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