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Reginald Thompson Eves (12 December 1892 1939 England and Wales Register Index of Births, Hackney, 1893Q1 – 1972) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 was a British editor and writer of British comics and for the Amalgamated Press.
He joined the company in 1908,Alan Clark, Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors, The British Library, 1998, p. 55 and during the First World War was assistant editor, under editor John Nix Pentelow, of the boys' story papers The Magnet and The Gem,Steve Holland, The Men Behind Girls' Fiction, Collecting Books and Magazines, 2001 also writing many of the stories. He was impressed by the letters he received from female readers of The Magnet, and after the war, when AP were seeking to expand into new markets, he launched the girls' story paper School Friend in 1919, becoming its first editor. However, he primarily used the male writers he was familiar with from the boys' papers, like Charles Hamilton.
In the 1920s he took charge of a group of papers, including The Champion, The Rocket and The Triumph; in the 1930s into the 1950s he edited Girls' Crystal.Bird, Dennis L. "Some of Our Favorite Authors: This Month: Ronald Fleming," Collectors' Digest (Jan. 1994). Archived at the Friardale Website. In 1954 he was the editor of Lion, a new weekly comic launched to compete with Hulton Press' Eagle. Despite having no interest in science fiction, he was under orders from management to have a space hero to compete with Dan Dare, and commissioned Captain Condor from writer Frank S. Pepper.Andrew Darlington, "Captain Condor: Space Hero in Search of an Artist", The Mentor 84, October 1994, pp. 5-8, 11
Eves retired in 1959,Steve Holland, Look and Learn: a History of the Classic Children's Magazine, 2006, p. 29 when AP was acquired by the Mirror Group and renamed Fleetway Publications. He died in 1972.Index of Deaths, Dartford, 1972Q3
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