Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories, that is, the Venus and Red Moon stories, and a complete storyline for Operation Saturn. Dare appeared in the Eagle comic story Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future in 1950, dramatised seven times a week on Radio Luxembourg.
The stories were set in the late 1990s, but the dialogue and manner of the characters is reminiscent of British war films of the 1950s. Dan Dare has been described as “Biggles in Space” and as the British equivalent of Buck Rogers. Dan Dare was distinguished by its long, complex storylines, snappy dialogue and meticulously illustrated comic-strip artwork by Hampson and other artists, including Harold Johns, Don Harley, Bruce Cornwell, Greta Tomlinson, Frank Bellamy and Keith Watson.
The most recent mainstream story was a Dan Dare mini-series published by Virgin Comics. It was written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Gary Erskine and is a completely new and somewhat darker interpretation of Dan Dare. Since October 2003, however, Dare’s adventures have also continued in Spaceship Away, a specialist magazine created by Rod Barzilay by agreement with the Dan Dare Corporation. Published three times a year, its mission statement is to continue the original Dare’s adventures where the original Eagle left off, in a style as close to that of the classic strip as possible. To that end, Barzilay originally hired former Eagle artist Keith Watson, and following Watson’s death Don Harley, both of whom had drawn Dare in the 1960s, to work on the strips which are written very much in the style of the fifties stories. Despite a fairly small circulation (it is available only via mail order, through its own Web site or in a select few comic shops), Spaceship Away continues to appear.
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Annual 1974
Book 09 Terra Nova Trilogy
Dan Dare’s Space Annual 1963
Pop-Up Action Book, Pilot of the future
Book 10 (large file)
Holiday Special 1991
Annual 1979,1980
Controversial Memoirs 1-4
Holiday special 1990
Project Nimbus
Solid space mystery
Spacebook
Dan Dare Annual 1987
Annual 1991, Book 1,2
Book 3,4
Book 5,6,7
I think these links are broken:
1.) “Dan Dare’s Space Annual 1963”
2.) “Book 10 (large file)”
3.) “Holiday Special 1991”
4.) “Controversial Memoirs 1-4”
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Thanks for letting me know, i’ve made new links for those.
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Hello and thank you for your efforts. I wanted to let you know that the link for Dan Dare – Pilot of the Future Hamlyn book:
http://www38.zippyshare.com/v/An73DnfS/file.html no longer works. Best wishes.
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Links in comments are not for long, all issues in the comments you can find at the page.
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Hello. Thank you for replying apologies for being dense but i can see the link (which is defunct) but i cannot see this particular book anyone on the site
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That can happen when a book is not suitable for the blog, to new, not readable or whatever reason, it’s a comment from 5 years ago so i can’t remember, try libgen that’s where they were found you can read in the comment.
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I absolutely love all the work you do
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Thank you. thanks to the scanners and original uploaders.
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I do thank, from the bottom of my heart, all those scanners and original uploaders without whom you would not be able to do what you do, but you are the one that gives us everything in order and with valuable commentaries. THANK YOU ALL FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART
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