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Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories. [2] Dare appeared in the Eagle comic series Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future from 1950 to 1967 (and subsequently in reprints), and dramatised seven times a week on Radio Luxembourg (1951–1956).
Between 1977 and 1981 the Dan Dare character was revived to appear in the new 2000AD comic. For the first 45 progs (issues) of the comic, "Dan Dare" was considered to be the "lead" strip, and hence held the coveted centre-spread position, thus allowing the first two pages of the strip to be printed in colour.
The Mekon (/ ˈ m iː k ɒ n / MEE-kon) of Mekonta is the arch-enemy of the British comic book hero Dan Dare.He first appeared on 3 November 1950 in the 30th episode of the Eagle comic strip Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, having been created by Frank Hampson.
"Dare", also known as Dare - The Controversial Memoir of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future [a] is a British dystopian science fiction comic story, starring the character Dan Dare. Written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Rian Hughes , the story originally began publication in the Fleetway Publications anthology Revolver in July 1990 before ...
He celebrated by drawing a Dan Dare strip for the university's internal magazine. The punch line of the script involved the university getting an application from Dare's nemesis The Mekon . In ailing health, Hampson died from a stroke and the lingering effects of throat cancer in July 1985, in Epsom, Surrey , England.
Spaceship Away was created by Rod Barzilay as an attempt to revive the original Dan Dare of the 1950s and early 1960s. It was born after Rod's efforts to arrange publication of "The Phoenix Mission", a story he had written, and persuaded an original Dan Dare artist Keith Watson to illustrate in pastiche style. This ran up against commercial ...
Flashtrek: Broken Mirror, first created by Vex Xiang, is one of the online Star Trek games, and is entirely browser-based. It has spawned several sequels. One sequel was created by Vex Xiang, and multiple others were created by fans.
Dan Dare is a classic British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson for the Eagle comic story Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future in 1950. Pages in category "Dan Dare" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.