Reginald Thompson Eves (12 December 1892[1][2] – 1972)[3][dubious – discuss] was a British editor and writer of comics and story papers for the Amalgamated Press.
[4] 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.
[5] In the 1920s he took charge of a group of papers, including The Champion, The Rocket and The Triumph;[4] in the 1930s into the 1950s he edited Girls' Crystal.
[6] In 1954 he was the editor of Lion,[dubious – discuss] 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.