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'''Dan Dare''' was a [[space]] traveller and enemy of [[the Mekon]], who stood for what was right throughout the universe with his faithful [[companion]] [[Digby (Comic Relief Comic)|Digby]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Comic Relief Comic (comic story)|Comic Relief Comic]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'') He was also a [[fiction]]al character in eponymous British children's comics and [[annual]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'', ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'') | '''Dan Dare''' was a [[space]] traveller and enemy of [[the Mekon]], who stood for what was right throughout the universe with his faithful [[companion]] [[Digby (The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic)|Digby]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (comic story)|The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'') He was also a [[fiction]]al character in eponymous British children's comics and [[annual]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'', ''[[Time and Relative (novel)|Time and Relative]]'') | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== Legacy === | === Legacy === | ||
Revision as of 14:51, 24 August 2023
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Dan Dare was a space traveller and enemy of the Mekon, who stood for what was right throughout the universe with his faithful companion Digby. (COMIC: The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic, PROSE: Time and Relative) He was also a fictional character in eponymous British children's comics and annuals. (PROSE: Conundrum, Time and Relative)
Biography
Legacy
Dan Dare's adventures opposite the Mekon were chronicled by the 1960s in the British children's comic Eagle. (PROSE: Time and Relative)
In 1977, Dame Emily Shaw compared the interior of the TARDIS to something out of Dan Dare. (AUDIO: The Cloisters of Terror) On his first adventure in the TARDIS, Oliver Harper similarly compared the experience to "something out of Dan Dare". (AUDIO: The Cold Equations)
In October 1987, Niles Bunbury commented that Skaro looked like "something from a Dan Dare annual". (AUDIO: We Are The Daleks)
The Eleventh Doctor once a space-suit patterned after Dan's. (COMIC: The One)
One account suggested that Dan Dare's adventure were wholly fictional: when Jason talked about how fictional characters were immortal, the Seventh Doctor completed his argument by noting that otherwise Dan Dare would be on his deathbed. (PROSE: Conundrum)
Behind the scenes
Behind-the-scenes connections
- Eric Eden assisted on art for the original Frank Hampson strips and later took over writing them in 1959. Frank Bellamy was an artist on the strips at that time. Dave Gibbons was an artist on the strip for 2000 AD. Pat Mills and John Wagner wrote the strip for the relaunched Eagle. Grant Morrison wrote a Dan Dare strip for Fleetway Publications.
- Dare was played by Noel Johnson on Radio Luxembourg and by Ed Stoppard in Big Finish Productions' series.
Other matters
- Andrew Skilleter named Who Dares Publishing by combining the names Doctor Who and Dan Dare with an added "s". (REF: Blacklight)
- Lex Christian from the novel The Dying Days takes his name from the chaplain character that evolved into Dan Dare during development of the strip.
- In 2016, Big Finish Productions began releasing a series of Dan Dare audio plays. Despite the one-time crossover between Dan Dare and the Doctor Who universe, they were not marketed by Big Finish as in any way connected with their plentiful library of Doctor Who audio dramas.
