Fraser of Africa is a comic strip that ran one page a week in full colour in the British comic Eagle in 1960–61, written by George Beardmore and illustrated by Frank Bellamy. It follows Martin Fraser, a white hunter in the game reserves of colonial Tanganyika, as he tracks down an American film star who has gone missing on safari, hunts down European ivory poachers, and helps a Maasai warrior rescue his tribe from Arab slavers. Bellamy, who had long had a fascination with Africa, corresponded with a farmer in Kenya who advised him on the accuracy of the wildlife depicted, and used a limited palette of browns and yellows to capture the parched East African landscape, only occasionally breaking into blues and reds. A collected edition was published by Hawk Books in 1990. References Norman Wright, "Frank Bellamy and Fraser of Africa", introduction to Eagle Classics: Fraser of Africa, Hawk Books, 1990 British comic strips Adventure comics Comics set in Africa Jungle (genre) comics British comics characters Comics characters introduced in 1960 1960 comics debuts 1961 comics endings Fictional explorers Eagle comic strips Eagle (comic) characters Male characters in comics