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Dan Dare

The return of the 'original' Dan Dare in 1989
Publication information
Publisher Hulton Press
First appearance Eagle #1 (April 14, 1950)
Created by Frank Hampson
In story information
Full name Colonel Daniel McGregor Dare
Team affiliations Interplanet Space Fleet

Dan Dare is a classic British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson. Edward Hulton (1869-1925 was a British Newspaper Publisher and Thoroughbred racehorse owner In Comic books and other stories with a long history first appearance refers to the first occurrence to feature a Fictional character. Frank Hampson ( 21 December 1918 &ndash 8 July 1985) was an Illustrator and is best known for being the creator and artist The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing Cartoons Traditionally much of this work was and still is humorous and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes Frank Hampson ( 21 December 1918 &ndash 8 July 1985) was an Illustrator and is best known for being the creator and artist Hampson not only invented Dan Dare and his entire world, he also put together the original team of artists and wrote the first two stories. Dan Dare appeared in the Eagle comic story Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future in 1950, dramatised several times a week on Radio Luxembourg. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Radio Luxembourg is a commercial broadcaster in many languages from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

The stories were set in the late 1990s but the dialogue and manner of the characters is reminiscent of British war films of the 1950s. War film is a Film genre concerned with Warfare usually about naval, air or land battles sometimes focusing instead on Dan Dare has been described as "Biggles in Space" and as the British equivalent of Buck Rogers. James Bigglesworth, better known in flying circles as " Biggles " is a fictional pilot and adventurer created by W Buck Rogers is a fictional character who first appeared in 1928 as Anthony Rogers the hero of two Novellas by Philip Francis Nowlan published in the magazine Dan Dare was distinguished by its long, complex story lines, snappy dialogue and meticulously illustrated comic-strip artwork by Hampson and other artists, including Harold Johns, Don Harley, Bruce Cornwell, Greta Tomlinson, Frank Bellamy and Keith Watson. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Frank Bellamy ( 21 May 1917 &ndash 5 July 1976) was a British Comics artist best known for his work on the Eagle Keith Watson ( 1 February 1935 — 9 April 1994) was a British comics artist most famous for his work on Dan Dare and

Presently, a new series of Dan Dare has been launched by Virgin Comics. Virgin Comics LLC is a Comic book company founded in 2006 which produces stories (many of which are Indian culture related for an international audience It is written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Gary Erskine. Garth Ennis (born January 16, 1970 in Holywood, Northern Ireland) is an Irish Comics writer best known for the DC Gary Erskine is a Scottish Comic book artist born in Paisley, near Glasgow in 1968

Contents

The 1950s

A Frank Hampson & Don Harley page from the 1959 Eagle Annual No. 8: Dan Dare in Operation Moss
A Frank Hampson & Don Harley page from the 1959 Eagle Annual No. 8: Dan Dare in Operation Moss

Dan Dare appeared on the cover of the first issue of the weekly comic strip magazine, Eagle, on 14 April 1950. Events 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar 's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. There were two large colour pages of his story per issue. The artwork was of a high quality, the product of artists in a studio called the Old Bakehouse in Churchtown, Southport, Lancashire. Southport is a seaside town on the Irish Sea coast situated within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in England, UK. The Eagle's founder, the Rev Marcus Morris, was vicar of the Southport church of St James at the time. It had scale models of spaceships, and models in costume as reference for the artists. A spacecraft is a Vehicle or machine designed for Spaceflight. Art modeling involves the posing of a model, an often paid sometimes even professional human subject as an aid in creating a portrait or other work of Art Occasionally, Eagle incorporated "centrefolds" of the fictional spaceships, such as Dan's ship the Anastasia, reminiscent of cutaway drawings of aircraft in aviation magazines or even Eagle itself. The centerfold of a Magazine refers to a Picture printed on a single sheet of paper and inserted in the middle of the publication The storylines were long and complex, sometimes lasting more than a year. Later, artwork was produced at a studio in Hampson's house in Epsom, Surrey, where his production line techniques were continued. See also Epsom New Hampshire, and Epsom New Zealand. For the chemical compound see Epsom salts.

Attention was paid to scientific plausibility, the science fiction luminary Arthur C. Clarke acting as science and plot adviser to the first strip. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (16 December 1917–19 March 2008 was a British Science fiction Author, Inventor, and The stories were set mostly on planets of the solar system presumed to have extraterrestrial life and alien inhabitants, common in science fiction before space probes of the 1960s proved the most likely worlds were lifeless. The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by Gravity. Extraterrestrial life is Life originating outside of the Earth. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 The first story begins with Dan Dare as pilot of the first successful flight to Venus. The VENUS ( V ictoria E xperimental N etwork U nder the S ea project is a cabled sea floor observatory operated by the University

The quality of the strip and its popularity remained high throughout the 1950s. In the late fifties Eagle's new editor who objected to the cost of the studio. The conflict caused Hampson to leave the strip in 1959, in the middle of a long plot that saw Dan searching an alien planet for his long-lost father. Production fell to Frank Bellamy, whose modern 3-dimensional style contrasted with Hampson's, despite efforts to smooth the transition by alternating the two pages of the weekly strip between Bellamy and the team of Don Harley and Keith Watson, and freelance artist Bruce Cornwell. Frank Bellamy ( 21 May 1917 &ndash 5 July 1976) was a British Comics artist best known for his work on the Eagle

Characters

Dan Dare was surrounded by a varying cast, initially:

His lean-faced character was recognizeable by the outer tips of his eyebrows, which were wavy. The eyebrow is an area of thick delicate hairs above the Eye that follows the shape of the brow ridges. His uniform looked like a typical British Army type (Frank Hampson used his own World War II army uniform as a model), though a lighter green. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. In place of British rank insignia it had coloured stripes and circles on the shoulderboards. Insignia (the plural of Latin insigne: emblem symbol is a Symbol or Token of personal power, Status or Office His cap badge was a vertical, antique rocketship in a circle with one five-pointed star on either side. Initially, Dare was to be portrayed as a chaplain. A chaplain is typically a Priest, Pastor, ordained Deacon, Rabbi, Imam or other member of the Clergy serving a group of

Vehicles

Spacecraft of various designs were presented as the product of inhabitants of various planets. A spacecraft is a Vehicle or machine designed for Spaceflight. The vehicle most identified with Dan was the winged Anastasia. It employed technology from various planets. Later, an alien ship was adopted and renamed the Zyl-bat. There was also an experimental time-travelling ship called Tempus Frangit (Latin: it breaks time or time breaks). Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome.

There were land and air vehicles – in the first stories, cars conform to styling of the time, while some flying machines were based on the design of helicopters of the mid-twentieth century. History Since 400 AD Chinese children have played with bamboo flying toys. Also of note was Lex O'Malley's ship, the Poseidon, a versatile craft that could operate as a jetfoil as well as a submarine. A Jetfoil is the name for a passenger-carrying waterjet-propelled Hydrofoil design by Boeing.

London Transport used overhead monorails and helibuses in early stories. Creation The organisation was created by the Transport Act 1947 and replaced the London Passenger Transport Board. A monorail is a transportation system based on a single beam The term is also used variously to describe the beam of the system or the vehicles travelling on such a beam or Ground transport cars were also drawn with gyroscopes and single wheels. A gyroscope is a device for measuring or maintaining orientation, based on the principles of Angular momentum.

Spaceports

There is evidence that the Spacefleet spaceport in Earth is west of Formby in Lancashire on a semicircle of land built into the Irish Sea by landfill. Formby is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea The Irish Sea ( Irish: Muir Éireann or Muir Meann; Scottish Gaelic: Muir Eireann Welsh: Môr Iwerddon, For other uses see Water treatment and Land reclamation. A landfill, also known as a dump (and historically as

Spacesuits

Spacefleet spacesuits had a corselet plate like on Siebe Gorman standard diving suits. Siebe Gorman & Company Ltd was a British company which developed Diving equipment and breathing equipment and worked on Commercial diving and Marine A standard diving dress consists of a metallic ( Copper, Brass or Bronze) Diving helmet, an airline or hose from a Surface supplied Their suit had no life-support backpack; the life-support gear was between two layers of the helmet. Life support, in the medical field refers to a set of therapies for preserving a patient's life when essential body systems are not functioning sufficiently to sustain life unaided

All or most Dan Dare comic pictures were drawn from models or posed humans. As a result, the Spacefleet spacesuits in space hang in folds like the boilersuit in which the models posed and show no sign of gas pressure. A space suit is a complex system of Garments equipment and environmental systems designed to keep a person alive and comfortable in the harsh environment of outer space Distinguish from Overhaul. An overall is a type of Garment which is usually used as Protective clothing when working After the first Venus war, Spacefleet spacesuits had propulsor backpacks copied from a Treen or Theron design. See Theron for other meaings The Therons are fictional aliens usually golden-brown-skinned who lived on the south hemisphere of the planet

Some other spacesuits such as Blasco's have life-support backpacks.

Radio Luxembourg serial

This ad for the Dan Dare pilot of the future serial appeared in the 208 magazine in March 1952
This ad for the Dan Dare pilot of the future serial appeared in the 208 magazine in March 1952

The New Adventures of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future aired five times a week on Radio Luxembourg for five years from July 2, 1951. Radio Luxembourg is a commercial broadcaster in many languages from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Radio Luxembourg is a commercial broadcaster in many languages from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Dan's voice was Noel Johnson, who also played Dick Barton on BBC radio. Noel Johnson ( 27 December, 1916 - 1 October, 1999) was an English Actor. Dick Barton - Special Agent was a popular Radio programme on the BBC Light Programme from 1946 to 1951. [2] The 15-minute show was sponsored by Horlicks and on March 3, 1952, the 106th episode of Dan Dare was heard that Monday night with different episodes on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7:15pm. Horlicks is the name of a company and of a Malted milk hot drink which is claimed to promote Sleep when consumed at bedtime Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

The 1960s

In 1960 artwork was taken over by Frank Bellamy, Don Harley, Keith Watson, Gerald Palmer, with Bruce Cornwell, and the look changed, with the colourful, rounded rocket ships replaced by angular silver craft, and changes to the space suits and insignia. Frank Bellamy ( 21 May 1917 &ndash 5 July 1976) was a British Comics artist best known for his work on the Eagle Keith Watson can refer to Keith Watson (politician, Australian politician Keith Watson (artist, British comics artist who worked on Gerald Palmer may refer to Gerald Palmer (car designer (1911&ndash1999 designer of the Jowett Javelin Gerald Palmer (politician The changes were never wholeheartedly taken up, however, and the look was erratic from then on. In 1962 the strip was removed from the front to the inside of the comic, in black and white, and was drawn by Keith Watson. Keith Watson ( 1 February 1935 — 9 April 1994) was a British comics artist most famous for his work on Dan Dare and Over the remaining years the strip varied in format and quality, eventually returning to the front page in colour, until it ended in 1967 with Dan retiring to become Space Fleet controller. Strips from the 1950s were reprinted until 1969, when Eagle merged with Lion. For a while the reprints continued in black and white in Lion.


The 1970s

In 1977, Dan Dare appeared again in the first issue of 2000 AD The first story had the character revived from suspended animation after two hundred years to find himself in a different world. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays The Mekon had also survived but otherwise the cast was different, as was the tone of the strip (heavily influenced by the punk movement, as was much of 2000 AD) and the personality of the title character. The punk subculture is based around Punk rock. It emerged from the larger Rock music scene in the mid-to-late-1970s in the United Kingdom, the United The strip was initially illustrated by Massimo Belardinelli, whose Dare owed nothing to the original apart from the wavy eyebrows. Massimo Belardinelli (5 June 1938 &ndash March 2007 was an Italian Comics artist best known for his work in the British Science fiction comic 2000 AD After a brief run, the series was dropped, but returned later, this time in a more realistic style by Dave Gibbons. Dave Gibbons (born April 14, 1949) is a British Comic book Artist, writer and sometime letterer In the latter series Dare was launched on a deep space mission in the style of Star Trek. Star Trek is a Science fiction Television series created by Gene Roddenberry that aired from September 8, 1966 through In a series of adventures, Dare encountered planets in need of aid and united them in opposition to the evil race who controlled that part of space. The strip was again dropped, the final episode showing the demise of Dare's ship, with a space-suited Dare drifting in space.

In 1967 the Pink Floyd song "Astronomy Domine", from the 1967 album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" references Dan Dare ("Stairway scare, Dan Dare, who's there"). Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Pink Floyd are " Astronomy Domine " is a song by British Psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is Pink Floyd 's debut album and the only one made under Syd Barrett 's leadership although he made some contributions to

In 1975, Elton John released the album Rock of the Westies, which included "Dan Dare (Pilot of the Future)". Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947 is an English pop / rock Singer, Composer Rock of the Westies is the tenth Studio album by British Singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1975 (see 1975 in music In it, John laments that he won't be joining Dan on his rocket and reveals that he prefers The Mekon.

In 1979, David Bowie referenced Dan Dare in his song DJ (song). Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger. " DJ " was a single by David Bowie. It was taken from the album Lodger in the UK being released on June 29 1979.

The 1980s

Dare returned to 2000AD in a story also featuring an aging Mekon, who framed Dare for murder. This re-imagining of Dare casts him almost as a superhero. Dare escapes to a planet that is home to an amphibian-like race which claims he is their Chosen One. He receives a semi-mystical glove that can shoot energy beams. The series proved popular for a couple of years until it was dropped in 1981.

In 1982 Eagle was re-launched, with Dan again its flagship strip. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) The new character was the great-great-great-grandson of the original, and the only surviving original was the Mekon. The initial artist was Gerry Embleton, who drew the Dan to resemble the original exactly, but he was quickly replaced by Ian Kennedy, who gave the hero a younger look and blond hair. Gerry Embleton is an Anglo-Swiss artist born in London He is the brother of Ron Embleton. Ian Kennedy (born 1932-09-22, Dundee, Scotland) is a UK artist who worked initially for D

The opening Dan Dare story was an epic, lasting 18 months, written by Pat Mills and John Wagner. Pat Mills, nicknamed 'the godfather of British comics' is a Comics writer and editor who along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s and John Wagner is a Comics writer who was born in Pennsylvania in 1949 and moved to Scotland as a boy It opened with a flashback to the unseen final defeat of the Mekon by the original Dan, after which he was sealed inside an artificial asteroid and exiled into space. In history film television and other media a flashback (also called analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current Asteroids, sometimes called Minor planets or planetoids', are bodies—primarily of the inner Solar System —that are smaller than planets but Centuries later he was accidentally freed and returned to conquer Earth. A few years later Dan returned from space to find Earth under Treen rule and set out to free the planet. His new cast included Lt Helen Scott, leader of the Earth Resistance, and Valdon, a renegade Treen similar to the earlier Sondar. One controversial was a lengthy flashback which retconned the original Dan to be a veteran of World War II and to have travelled through time to the era in which his adventures in the original Eagle took place - an attempt to explain why a hero in the age of space travel had a 1950s outlook on life. Retroactive continuity is the deliberate changing of previously established facts in a work of serial fiction World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including

After this initial storyline other writers were used and different supporting characters came and went, including Professor Pinkerton, a female scientist similar to Professor Peabody, and a new Digby (again, a descendant of the original). The Mekon was generally the foe in alternate stories.

In 1987 the strip received became more like a space opera, with increasing violence. Space opera is a subgenre of Speculative fiction or Science fiction that emphasizes romantic, often Melodramatic adventure set mainly or entirely Violence is the exertion of force so as to injure or abuse The word is used broadly to describe the destructive action of natural phenomena like Storms and Earthquakes Now drawn by John Gillatt, Dan took on a tough-guy look. He led space commandos and packed a hi-tech gun reminiscent of that carried by Judge Dredd. For the 1995 film see Judge Dredd (film. For the Reggae / Ska performer see Judge Dread.

During the 1980s Dan Dare starred in three computer games for the Commodore 64/128, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Atari computers. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal Home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd The Amstrad CPC is a series of 8-bit Home computers produced by Amstrad Plc during the 1980s and early 1990s Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. The first was a different game on each system; the second and third were shoot'em-ups. All three were based on the 1950s strip rather than the contemporary comics.

The 1990s

In 1989, Dan Dare was re-launched in a return to original character, the first story drawn by Keith Watson and later ones by of other artists. Dan Dare Pilot of the Future is a 1986 Computer game by Virgin Games for the ZX Spectrum, Keith Watson ( 1 February 1935 — 9 April 1994) was a British comics artist most famous for his work on Dan Dare and The initially kept to the look of the original but was again updated in 1990. It ran until the last issue of Eagle [then a monthly publication] in January 1994.

In 1990, a strip entitled Dare, written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Rian Hughes, was serialized in Revolver. Grant Morrison (born January 31 1960 is a Scottish Comic book writer and artist Rian Hughes is a British Graphic designer illustrator and Comics artist noted for his work on 2000AD, where he illustrated It presented bleak and cynical characters and was a not-too-subtle satire of 1980s British politics. The politics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland takes place in the framework of a Constitutional monarchy, in which the Monarch is Head Spacefleet had been privatised, the Treens were subjected to racist abuse in urban ghettos, Digby was unemployed, Professor Peabody had been murdered, and Dare's mentor Sir Hubert Guest betrayed Dare to the Mekon and his quisling British Prime Minister, Gloria Munday (whose appearance and demeanour appear modelled on Margaret Thatcher. For other uses see Mekon. The Mekon (of Mekonta was the arch-enemy of the British Comic book hero Dan Dare, first Margaret Hilda Thatcher Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925 ) Ultimately, Dare destroys London, the Mekon and himself through a smuggled nuclear weapon.

From 19 April - 10 May 1990, BBC Radio 4 aired a four-part adaptation of Voyage to Venus, dramatised by Nick McCarty and directed by Glyn Dearman. The cast included Mick Ford (Col. Dan Dare), Donald Gee (Digby), Richard Pearce (the Mekon), Terence Alexander (Sir Hubert Guest), Zelah Clarke (Prof. Peabody), William Roberts (Hank Hogan), Sean Barrett (Pierre Lafayette), John Moffatt (Kalon), Shirley Dixon (Mrs. Digby), Ben Onwukwe (Volstar), David Goudge (Sondar), Margaret Courtenay (Aunt Anastasia), Brian Miller (Urtag), David King (Dapon)

In 1996, The Planet published its first and only issue. Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Inside was a new and unfinished Dan Dare story, "Remembrance", drawn by Sydney Jordan featuring a slightly older Dare and apparently set some years after the original Eagle strips.

In 1997, to celebrate their 20th anniversary, 2000 AD published two issues with additional free comics, the first a reprint of the first issue of 2000 AD, which starred Dan Dare. The second free comic was a speculative issue called 3000 AD which contained strips partially based on the first issue of 2000 AD. One strip was entitled "The Return of Dan Dare", which also featured the return of the Mekon.

The 2000s

In 2002, Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future became a computer-generated TV series produced first by Netter Digital then by Foundation Imaging, running to 26 22-minute episodes. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Dan Dare Pilot of the Future is a computer-generated TV series produced first by Netter Digital then by Foundation Imaging, running to 3D computer graphics (in contrast to 2D computer graphics) are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer Netter Digital Entertainment' (NDE was a company created by Douglas Netter in 1995. Foundation Imaging was a CGI visual effects studio Computer animation studio and Post-production editing facility The series drew on several comic book incarnations. It started on Nicktoons UK on 5 November 2005 at 6. For Nick Toons in United States, see NickToons Network. Nicktoons UK, formerly NickToons TV, is a digital television station Events 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier ( Brittany) Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 30pm. Two abortive attempts had been made to make a live-action series, in 1981 and 1991.

In 2003, Dan Dare reappeared in The Phoenix Mission, in a new magazine called Spaceship Away. Initial work was by Keith Watson, but after his death it was taken over by Don Harley and other artists. Keith Watson ( 1 February 1935 — 9 April 1994) was a British comics artist most famous for his work on Dan Dare and The strip is a deliberate imitation of the 1950s, to the point of drawing each page as if the front of the 1950s Eagle. Spaceship Away is edited by Rod Barzilay.

Although the Spacefleet uniform is the old one, its cap badge changed. The rocket was replaced by the sideways-flying eagle logo of the defunct magazine.

In 2007 it was announced that Virgin Comics will publish a Dan Dare comic written by Garth Ennis, with art by Gary Erskine. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Virgin Comics LLC is a Comic book company founded in 2006 which produces stories (many of which are Indian culture related for an international audience Garth Ennis (born January 16, 1970 in Holywood, Northern Ireland) is an Irish Comics writer best known for the DC Gary Erskine is a Scottish Comic book artist born in Paisley, near Glasgow in 1968 [3] Virgin also acquired the film, television and video game rights. Virgin's Richard Branson is a fan of the character. Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950 is an English Business magnate, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 companies [4] The comic follows the original strips, Space Fleet having collapsed along with the UN due to nuclear war between China and America; Britain survived due to defensive shields made by Professor Peabody, and has become a world power again as a result with the Royal Navy taking Space Fleet's role. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service)

Dare is on an asteroid with memorabilia from Earth and a hologram of 1950s rural England; Peabody is Home Secretary to an amoral Prime Minister, who she knows deep down isn't a good man; and Digby is a high-ranking officer at the orbiting Navy base Gibraltar. When the Mekon returns with a revived army, Dare is called out of retirement to lead the defence, while Peabody investigates shady dealings on the home front not knowing the Prime Minister answers to the Mekon.

Characters inspired by Dan Dare

Characters inspired by or based on Dan Dare have appeared throughout British popular culture. One example is Wing Commander Leyton in British Summertime by Paul Cornell, which juxtaposes the utopian future portrayed in the original comics with the Britain of today. Paul Cornell (born July 18 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as Doctor Who fiction The Doctor Who New Adventures novel The Dying Days by Lance Parkin features a British astronaut named Alexander Christian, named after an earlier, unpublished version of the character. Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The Virgin New Adventures ( NA s were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series The Dying Days is an original novel written by Lance Parkin and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Lance Parkin is a British Author, best known for writing Fiction and reference books for Television series, in particular Doctor Who

In 1971, British comedian Kenny Everett satirised Dan Dare with his own space hero, Captain Kremmen. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Kenny Everett (born Maurice Cole in Seaforth Lancashire; 25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995 was an English radio DJ and television entertainer Captain Kremmen was a Science fiction radio serial set in the early 21st Century (The pilot opens in 2005) Everett was a fan of Dan Dare in his childhood and made references to this in his own science-fiction stories.

In the 1980s, Private Eye published Dan Dire, Pilot of Future?. Private Eye is a fortnightly British satirical Magazine, edited by Ian Hislop. Dire was based on politician Neil Kinnock, the question being whether he'd ever become Prime Minister. Neil Gordon Kinnock Baron Kinnock PC (born 28 March 1942 is a British Politician. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the political leader of the United Kingdom Dire's enemy was the Maggon, a combination of the Mekon and Margaret Thatcher. For other uses see Mekon. The Mekon (of Mekonta was the arch-enemy of the British Comic book hero Dan Dare, first Margaret Hilda Thatcher Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925

In the early 1990s, the British satirical TV show Spitting Image ran sketches called "Dan Quayle, Pillock of the Future?", poking fun at the US Vice-President. Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human Spitting Image was a British satirical Puppet show that ran on the ITV television network from 1984 to 1996 James Danforth "Dan" Quayle (born February 4 1947 is an American politician and a former Senator from the state of Indiana.

Marvel Comics created a Dan Dare-esque character in their Captain Britain line in the 1980s. Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc Captain Britain ( Brian Braddock) briefly known as Britannic is a Fictional character, a Superhero appearing in the comic books published by The character was Roy Risk, one of the British heroes killed by The Fury. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located

In the late 1990s, following the Labour Party's ascent to power, the Saturday edition of The Times printed a strip by political cartoonist Peter Brookes called "Dan Blair; Pilot for the Foreseeable Future", the major characters represented by noted political figures. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. Peter D Brookes (born 28 September 1943 is a English cartoonist who has produced work for numerous publications including Radio Times, New Society This ran from September 1997 until January 1999.

In his Afterword to Ministry of Space, Warren Ellis lists Dan Dare as one of the inspirations for the story, in which Britain forges an ambitious space programme in the decades following World War II. Ministry of Space is a three-part alternate history mini-series written by Warren Ellis, originally published in three issues by Image Warren Ellis (born February 16, 1968) is a British author of Comics Novels and Television, well known for sociocultural Sir John Dashwood, the central character of Ministry of Space, is a cynical version of Dan Dare himself.

Captain Jack Harkness, the Doctor Who and Torchwood character, has several similarities to Dan Dare. Captain Jack Harkness Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Torchwood is a British science fiction Drama Television programme, created by Russell T Davies and starring John Barrowman The script for the episode The Empty Child in which Captain Jack makes his first appearance describes him as having "the jawline of Dan Dare, the smile of a bastard". " The Empty Child " is an episode in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on [5]

Dare makes brief appearances in the steampunk comics Scarlet Traces: The Great Game (where he and Digby are officers in the British invasion of Mars; Mercurians, Treen, and Theron are also briefly seen) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier (where, along with Jet Morgan and Jet-Ace Logan, he is one of the first pilots in the post-Ingsoc space program). Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and Speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s Scarlet Traces (2002 is a comic of the Steampunk genre written by Ian Edginton and illustrated by D'Israeli. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier is an original Graphic novel in the Comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Journey Into Space was a BBC Radio Science fiction programme written by BBC producer Charles Chilton. Jet-Ace Logan was a British Comic strip appearing in Comet 1956-1959 and Tiger 1959-1968 plus the 1969 Tiger Annual In George Orwell 's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Ingsoc is the ideology of the totalitarian government of

The musical group Art of Noise has a song tribute called Dan Dare. Art of Noise were an Avant-garde Synthpop group formed in 1983 by producer Trevor Horn, music journalist Paul Morley, and session

Reprints

Most of the 50s and 60s strips were reprinted by Hawk Books between 1987 and 1995.

Stories left out were :

In 2004, Titan Books began collecting the series from the beginning of the Hampson run in dust-jacketed hardback editions. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Titan Publishing Group is an independently owned publishing company established in 1981 Collected thus far:

The Man From Nowhere and Rogue Planet began a three-part story arc, which is continued in Reign of the Robots (scheduled for an April/May 2008 release).

The 2007 series had the first three issues collected into one hardback volume, released in April 2008 (ISBN 0981520022), but the whole series will be collected into a single volume later in the year:

See also

References

  1. ^ Dan Dare 'inspired UK innovation' BBC News
  2. ^ Obituary: Noel Johnson The Guardian
  3. ^ Gary Erskine's page on Dan Dare
  4. ^ Virgin takes up 'Dare', Variety, August 26, 2007
  5. ^ (2005) Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts. Dan Dare Pilot of the Future is a computer-generated TV series produced first by Netter Digital then by Foundation Imaging, running to The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman BBC Books, p. 323. ISBN 0-563-48641-4.  

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