1950
Comic: Dan Dare
Creator: Frank Hampson
I was 12 years old and waiting for the very first edition of Eagle Comic to be printed. I remember buying this first issue and joining all the various ...
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Aged about ten, in 1975. Dan Dare was before my time. But I found a pile of mildewed Eagles and worked my way right through them.
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I first came across it in 1953,we had just come back from the far east with my father who was in the RAF. I was seven years old and it was like a brea ...
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Dan Dare
Britain's answer to Flash Gordon - a 1950s space captain who graced the pages of the Eagle comic.
Created in 1950 to adorn the front cover of the debut edition of the Eagle comic book, Dan Dare is an intrepid, chisel-jawed hero with a stiff upper lip. ‘The Pilot of the Future’, Dare was Britain’s answer to Flash Gordon, and one of the Eagle’s stable of wholesome heroes intended by the comic’s proprietor, Reverend Marcus Morris, as antidotes to the perceived lax morality of pulp US comics.
With his northern batman Digby in tow, Dare brought Blighty’s values to the solar system. And if Dare was a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot in space, then the Mekon, with his cold-hearted, megalomaniacal designs, was his surrogate-Nazi nemesis.
Dare helped make Eagle the most popular British comic ever, selling over two million copies weekly at its height. The comic closed in 1969, but Dare was resurrected briefly in the pages of 2000AD in the late 1970s, and once again adorned the cover of the Eagle when it was reborn in 1982 - this time as a photo-story-led weekly, which limped on until 1992.
Nominated by brightspear, gideonr and hoovis.
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