Tomlinson hoped to follow up on the success of Eagle with the supernatural comic Scream! but a combination of slow sales, industrial action and management interference saw the title cancelled after fifteen issues, and merged with Eagle. "Monster" and " The Thirteenth Floor" were added to the line-up, while around the same time changes were made to the comic's two biggest hitters. Mills moved on from "Dan Dare", deciding he had "done his penance for reviving the character" and "to leave while I was still ahead". Tomlinson took over as writer under the pseudonym 'D. Horton'. [5] Meanwhile, the veteran Eric Bradbury took over art duties on "Doomlord". [9] Walt Disney’s True Life Adventures: Living Desert top centre panels, in '4-color' colour (26 June 1954 – 31 July 1954) I think Alan Grant’s Doomlord was the best Eagle comic for its intelligence and imagination, it certainly raised questions and made one think. When I saw the alien Klaatu in 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, Klaatu lands on Earth in ’51 USA, assumes a made up identity and lives in a boarding house so it’s easy to connect Klaatu with Doomlord Vek, but the Doomlords were a lot more controversial with their “fate of the individual unimportant when species in danger of extinction” justification of killing innocents for the sake of their mission. But Dan Dare is a good way for us to connect to younger audiences too. We’re putting together an exhibition for the September 2018 centenary of Frank Hampson’s birth but we have also done quite a few outreach and exhibition projects exploring the themes of space travel, comics and graphic novels for younger kids.

The Morrison/Hughes Revolver series has been collected by Fleetway in 1991 as Dare: The Controversial Memoir of Dan Dare ( ISBN 1853862118). The Company also owns the global rights to other associated strips that appeared in the Eagle including Computer Warrior, Stormforce, Ghost Squad, Manix, The Fists of Danny Pyke, Crowe Street Comp, Walk or Die, Survival, The Amstore Computer and Detective Zed. a b c d e f g h i Tomlinson, Barrie (24 September 2017). Comic Book Hero. Pitch. ISBN 9781785313585. Khoury, George (2004), True Brit: a celebration of the great comic book artists of the UK, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing, ISBN 978-1-893905-33-7 The Eagle Comic today remains a global publishing phenomenon and Dan Dare today is a British Icon! Nothing had been seen like it before and even Stan Lee the Creative leader of Marvel, was a huge admirer of the Comic and its content.Julian: Well, I am impressed, reading the about thinking and effort you put into it. It certainly has that look about it! Condensed adaptation of three C. S. Forester novels, The Happy Return (1937), A Ship of the Line (1938) & Flying Colours (1938), illustrated by Martin Aitchison Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett wrote Dan Dare into his song " Astronomy Domine", from the band's debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, with the line "Stairway scare, Dan Dare, who's there?".

The Golden Man" ( Sir Walter Raleigh), written by Marcus Morris and Guy Daniel and illustrated by Robert Ayton, 1961 Fustar: Forum member Fustar has created an excellent blog, where he discusses comics, television, sport and many other subjects in a 'straight- talking' blog.

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Nicholls, Peter; Clute, John (1999), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, London: Orbit, ISBN 978-1-85723-897-6 Boyd, Norman Illustrators Special No.11: The Art of Frank Bellamy, Book Palace Books, 2021 ISBN 9781913548087 a b c Comic Book Punks: How a Generation of Brits Reinvented Pop Culture. Rebellion Publishing. 21 November 2023. ISBN 9781786189837. During the 1980s Dan Dare starred in three computer games for the Commodore 64/128, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Atari computers. 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: