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A 350kW medium wave transmitter – relocated from Junglinster to Marnach to provide a better reception in England and Scandinavia – did not go into service until 1956. THE CAST

There is evidence that the Spacefleet spaceport on Earth is west of Formby in Lancashire on a semicircle of land built into the Irish Sea by landfill. 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. RTL, the former Radio Luxembourg have been kind enough to search their archives for one fan of the show, but copies of the show have never been found there and it is believed they were either destroyed after the broadcast, or when their “sell by date” expired. The Dan Dare in the second Eagle volume was the Great, Great Grandson of the original space hero (although from issue 388, the comic reverts to stories featuring the original Dare). In 2008, Virgin Comics published a 7-issue Dan Dare mini-series written by Garth Ennis, with art by Gary Erskine. The series is set several years after the original strips. Space Fleet has 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. Peabody is the home secretary to a prime minister modelled on Tony Blair, who has sold Earth's defence out to The Mekon out of fear of overwhelming odds. Dare, assisted by Digby (who sacrifices himself in battle) leads a spirited defence of both Earth and his honourable principles.Obfuscating Stupidity: Digby is no genius, but neither is he the idiot he allows the villains to think he is. Frank was all for realism – but he never overlooked the fact that he was primarily telling stories.

I used to listen to Dan Dare every night as a boy in the early 1950s, as did a number of my friends,” one downthetubes reader recalls. John Freeman. "Dan Dare Remembered". Down The Tubes. Archived from the original on 2 May 2012 . Retrieved 11 October 2012.Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories. [2] Dare appeared in the Eagle comic series Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future from 1950 to 1967 (and subsequently in reprints), and dramatised seven times a week on Radio Luxembourg (1951–1956). Let's not forget the 2000 AD stories. Dan was far more of a gung-ho bruiser who'd prefer to kill then talk things out. A large proportion of Dan Dare was of course not done this way and came “straight out of Frank’s head”, as it were. Whilst his fine pen work became ever more intricate and his colour-moulding more subtle, his superb flowing line always distinguished his work from the other artists. 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. The Mekon was the ruler of the Treens of northern Venus, although he was ousted from this position at the end of the first story and had no fixed base of operations. He was created by scientific experimentation, engineered for very high intelligence. As such he had a swollen head containing his massive brain and atrophied body, and moved around on a levitating chair. He typically invented new superweapons in the pursuit of his goal: the domination of the universe for the purpose of scientific research. In some stories he also sought personal revenge on Dan Dare.

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. Dan's last 2000AD adventure was in 1979. Then, in 1982, he was called out of retirement once again, to star in the revived Eagle comic. Printed on glossy paper, with columns by celebrities like Lenny Henry and Daley Thompson, The "New" Eagle was an attempt to return to the high standards of the original comic. Dan, too, was returned to his Fifties glory by scribes John Wagner and Pat Mills. Hampson returned full-time in 1955, starting "The Man from Nowhere" trilogy, which took Dan and his companions outside the Solar System for the first time.His episode listing, based on information from various sources, features here on downthetubesand a straightforward listing of episodes compiled by Jeremy Briggs is here.

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