Dan Dare Omnibus

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The TV series Star Trek, for instance, is set in the 24th century, but was really more about the rapid changes taking place in American society during the 1960s. The Venus of the Dan Dare strips was a lush planet, with three main races living on it: the emotionless, technically-advanced Treens in the north and the peaceful Therons and Atlanteans in the south. Separating the two was the Flamebelt, a band of volcanoes and molten lava inhabited by the dangerous Silicon Monster. Shiny-Looking Spaceships: The ships weren't usually shiny as such, but were almost always brightly coloured (The spaceship interiors, on the other hand, were often cramped and utilitarian).

Horde of Alien Locusts: The story 'The Red Moon Mystery' featured "space bees" that would strip planets of organic life.

John Freeman. "Dan Dare Remembered". Down The Tubes. Archived from the original on 2 May 2012 . Retrieved 11 October 2012. a b c Berridge, Ed (11 November 2018). "Four-Colour Classics: Too Much Too Young - The Story of British Adult Comics Part Three". Judge Dredd Megazine. No.277. Rebellion Developments. I suspect Frank’s style was inspired in part by American artists such as Milton Caniff, who also used a great variety of viewpoints for frames and Indeed, a lot of bold shadow effects. Some of the brush/pen line work is similar as well. Obfuscating Stupidity: Digby is no genius, but neither is he the idiot he allows the villains to think he is.

Xel, first encountered in Operation Time Trap in 1963. Xel is another enemy in the mould of the Mekon. Having stowed away with Dare at the end of his first appearance, in the next story Xel allies with the Mekon but the two fall out. Xel would make regular appearances through the 60s before being finally captured. Dan Dare has occasionally been published in other magazines and publications in ex-Yugoslavia, including a title published by the company Decje novine in 1977.Some episodes of Dan Dare were also published in Panorama, the most popular and longest living comic strip magazine in ex Yugoslavia later renamed Stripoteka, alongside some other excellent British SF comics and other international strips. It ran for over 900 issues, ceasing publication in the 1990s when the area was devastated by war. Agri World: The first storyline is about a mission to turn Venus into one of these to provide food for an overcrowded Earth. Eagle featured a mix of features and both text and comic strip stories, but Dan Dare was to prove to be by far the most durable character to emerge from the publication.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. 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. Religious overtones were never that far away. Dare was named after Hampson's mother's favourite hymn, Dare to be a Daniel and the comic's title was inspired by Hampson's wife, Dorothy, who came up with the idea after spotting a large eagle-shaped lectern, "wings outspread to support the bible", in church. Grant Morrison( w), Rian Hughes( a)."Dare" Revolver,no.1-7(July 1990 to January 1991). Fleetway Publications.

A cheerful, trustworthy soul, Dan had many friends who aided him in his exploits, including faithful batman Spaceman Class 1 Albert Digby, his boss, Sir Hubert Guest, Spacefleet Controller, fellow pilots Hank and Pierre, and boffin Professor Peabody, who was also distinguished by being a rather fetching young lady! Missions were usually undertaken in his personal spaceship, the Anastasia. David Butler, "Time and relative dissertations in space: critical perspectives on Doctor Who", Manchester University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-7190-7682-X, p.151 Transplanted Humans: The Atlantines turn out to be the descendants of humans kidnapped from Earth by the Treens twenty thousand years ago.

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Like many creators, only he could draw the “authentic” version of his characters. Look at Don Harley‘s version of Dan and Digby, for example. While perfectly adequate, for me, they never had quite the same character. Benson, Timothy (14 April 2021). "Dan Dare comic: How a fifties vicar came to land the Eagle". Express.co.uk. Comic Strip of the Future" by Matthew Badham, in Judge Dredd Megazine #314 (September 2011), pp.16–22 Dan Dare would be unique to British comics in the way that meticulous attention was paid to both graphic realism and feasible plots. Hampson, for example, had staff act out the storyline before any drawing took place. Science fiction, whether in literature or film, has, in reality, always had more to do with the present rather than the future.