I Gave My Word: Dan's word is his bond, although the strip is honest about how circumstances beyond his control can lead him to be unable to keep it.

David Butler, "Time and relative dissertations in space: critical perspectives on Doctor Who", Manchester University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-7190-7682-X, p.151 In Turkey, The Roket comic was first released on 9th Fe Here are some more interesting blogs to read: Life in Thailand, Life, Stuff and Things, Flash Online Games News and Peter Inns's Blog Many of Dan's exploits took place on Venus, a divided planet, inhabited by the emotionless Treens and and their meglomaniac leader The Mekon in the north, and the peaceable Therons in the south. A wizened, tiny figure who traveled on a personal flying saucer, The Mekon was physically feeble, but made up for this with his huge intelligence - shown by his enormously enlarged head.

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Downer Ending: Dare, Grant Morrison's miniseries from the early 1990s, warps the original, idealistic Dan Dare vision of the 1990s into a satire of the real 1990s bequeathed to Britain by the Thatcher government. An injured Dan Dare comes out of retirement to investigate a conspiracy that's already claimed Peabody's life and goes on to claim Digby's. In the final chapter it's revealed that the British government has sold out to the Mekon. The story ends with Dare setting off a nuclear explosion that wipes out the Mekon, the corrupt government, and himself, along with an unspecified but no doubt large number of innocent bystanders — with the possibility left open that it may already be too late to prevent the horrors of the Mekon's plot running its course. Instead the industry's growth seemed to be in adult-orientated comics. [4] IPC's successor Fleetway Publications attempted to gain a foothold in this market with the fortnightly anthology Crisis, which was enough of a success for editor Steve MacManus to be given the go ahead for a monthly companion title, Revolver. MacManus selected Peter Hogan as editor, and the pair began to search for stories. Grant Morrison approached them with an idea for a revisionism Dare story had had conceived in 1987,; the promotional opportunity of both having a Dan Dare strip to tie into the 40th anniversary and having Morrison - who had recently broken through in the American market with Arkham Asylum and Animal Man for DC Comics - was not lost on the Revolver team. [5] [6] It’s up to Dare and his bat-man Digby to help the enslaved people of Venus to rise up and defeat the massive green headed evil genius.

Colonel Dan Dare has been prematurely retired from Space Force after sustaining a leg injury in the Threshold Conflict. Having to walk with a cane, he lives a solitary life making an unenthusiastic attempt at writing his memoirs. Dare is shaken out of his isolation when he receives news that his former colleague Professor Jocelyn Peabody has committed suicide. At her funeral, Dare approaches his one-time best friend Albert Digby, who dismisses him with curt anger. His former commander Sir Hubert Guest introduces Dare to Prime Minister Gloria Munday; her Unity Party have been in power in Britain for 10 years, during which the police have gained greater power. She wants to use him in her promotional material as she seeks another 5-year term and, wanting to feel useful and needing the money, he agrees. After donning his uniform and attending a photo call outside the Space Fleet Headquarters, decommissioned following the privatisation of Space Fleet.Similarly, take the jet-propelled gyroscopic jeep or “jepeet”. The huge gyrosphere which would protrude into the passenger compartment is never shown. Also, would following vehicles not be blasted by those rear jet exhausts? Sadly, the series has not yet been collected, although Hibernia Comics did feature one short story in one of their collections, in a one shot Eagle Adventure Special. The main differences between the solar system of “Dan Dare” in Eagle and The Adventures of Dan Dare lay in the fact that Mars had a breathable atmosphere, and was inhabited by several Martian races, who seemed to be independent of each other, and of the Earth-Venus alliance, maintaining a position of neutrality. The Martians,Philip recalled in his Eagle Times feature, were never described, but appeared essentially human since, in some stories, Dan and Digby had recourse to switching uniforms with Martian guards, and impersonating them.

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 concluding in Crisis. The story is a revisionist take on Dare, using the character to satirise the government of Margaret Thatcher, and the treatment of the character's creator Frank Hampson. Along with many Charlotte Corday-related projects, recent works include The Casebook of Bryant May: The Soho Devil written by Christopher Fowler.

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Digby (Albert Fitzwilliam Digby) was Dan's Wigan-born batman. Rotund and sometimes bumbling, he provided comic relief. He was fiercely loyal and the only character apart from Dan to appear in every story. His favourite recreation was sleeping and he was fond of traditional English food. His nearest relative was his Aunt Anastasia, after whom Dan named his spaceship. Benson, Timothy (14 April 2021). "Dan Dare comic: How a fifties vicar came to land the Eagle". Express.co.uk. In 2018, a downthetubes source kindly provided us with an audio of another episode for “The Lost World on Mars”, which we have published here on downthetubeswith the kind permission of the Dan Dare Corporation. Find out more about the episode here. A copy has been shared with the British Library. Dismotivation: Digby has no qualifications as a pilot, but is actually better at it than half the fleet. He keeps quiet about it because he's worried that he'll get a commission if anyone finds out.