Dan Dare.

Contents of the site.

• A Dan Dare introduction.
• A Frank Hampson biography - and his tribulations with Eagle.
• Aliens in Dan Dare. The Mekon, and Venus, as well as other aliens.
• The Dan Dare bust at Southport - David Britton describes the commissioning and unveiling.
• The cast - the exploits of some of the other characters in the Dan Dare stories.
• The Dan Dare spacesuit!
• Anastasia, Dan's personal spaceship.
• Mekonta - the capitol city of the Treens.
• A glossary ... covering all the major characters, places and events in the Dan Dare saga, with brief explanations and pictures.
• The faces of Dan Dare - how he was drawn by different artists from 1950 to 1996.
• 10 pages of Operation Fireball, an original Dan Dare story from 1962 drawn by Keith Watson. This story is in black and white,and has not been reprinted elsewhere.
• Another black and white story by Keith Watson, Operation EarthSaver. Scans of the original pages can be downloaded. But beware: the files sizes are quite large.
• Keith Watson in eagle. He also drew Captain Condor in the Lion for a year: here are some frames from those stories. And some Keith Watson artwork never seen before - and a story to go with it.
• And a series of pages discussing individual stories, with illustrations from the originals. These include:
  • The Venus story;
  • Red Moon Mystery;
  • Man from Nowhere;
  • Safari in Space;
  • Terra Nova;
  • Project Nimbus and
  • All Treens Must Die!
• new! - Operation Moss from eagle annual no. 8 - mature Hampson/Harley artwork at its best.
• Original Artwork. Scans from Frank Hampson artwork which I once owned, from the Venus story, and from Rogue Planet.
• An oddity: the Grant Morrison Dan Dare.
• I have also commissioned a young artist, Martin Baines, to illustrate a new story, Project Pluto. This is being done associated with the relevant issue of the Daily World Post. And Martin's representation of the ion ship Argo.