The Reverend John Marcus Harston Morris OBE, (25 April 1915, Preston, Lancashire – 16 March 1989, London) known as Marcus Morris, was an English Anglican priest who founded the Eagle comic in 1950 and was deputy chairman of the National Magazine Company. His family moved to Southport, Lancashire in 1918. Morris read literature and then theology at the University of Oxford and was ordained as a priest in 1940. He worked in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and Weeley, Essex and was an RAF chaplain.

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  • The Reverend John Marcus Harston Morris OBE, (25 April 1915, Preston, Lancashire – 16 March 1989, London) known as Marcus Morris, was an English Anglican priest who founded the Eagle comic in 1950 and was deputy chairman of the National Magazine Company. His family moved to Southport, Lancashire in 1918. Morris read literature and then theology at the University of Oxford and was ordained as a priest in 1940. He worked in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and Weeley, Essex and was an RAF chaplain. In 1945 he returned to Southport as vicar of St James's, Birkdale, and in 1950 moved to Epsom, Surrey. He lived later in Bath, Somerset. He is best known for founding the Eagle in 1950, after noticing that young boys were reading American adult horror comics. He chose to offer more suitable stories in the same attractive comic-strip format. He later founded several other comics: Girl, Swift and Robin, for girls, boys, and younger children. Marcus Morris died in the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, London. "His memorial service filled St Bride's in Fleet Street to overflowing", according to his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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  • The Reverend John Marcus Harston Morris OBE, (25 April 1915, Preston, Lancashire – 16 March 1989, London) known as Marcus Morris, was an English Anglican priest who founded the Eagle comic in 1950 and was deputy chairman of the National Magazine Company. His family moved to Southport, Lancashire in 1918. Morris read literature and then theology at the University of Oxford and was ordained as a priest in 1940. He worked in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and Weeley, Essex and was an RAF chaplain.
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  • Marcus Morris
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