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Dan Dare Facsimile
- Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future. 1950. With Frank Hampson 1(1)-2(25)
- The Red Moon Mystery / Marooned on Mercury. 1951. With Frank Hampson 2(26)-3(46)
- Operation Saturn. 1953. With Frank Hampson 3(47)-5(21)
- Prisoners of Space. 1954. With Frank Hampson 5(22)-6(18)
- The Man from Nowhere. 1955. With Frank Hampson 6(19)-6(47)
- Rogue Planet. 1955. With Frank Hampson 6(48)-8(7)
- Reign of the Robots. 1957. With Frank Hampson 8(8)-9(16)
- The Phantom Fleet. 1958. With Frank Hampson 9(17)-9(52)
- Terra Nova Trilogy. 1959. With Frank Hampson 10(1)-11(11)
- Project Nimbus. 1960. With Frank Hampson 11(12)-11(52)
- Solid Space Mystery. 1960. With Frank Hampson 11(53)-13(9)
- The Final Volume. 1964. With Frank Hampson 15(23)-17(??)
Dan Dare
- Dan Dare (omnibus). 1981. With Frank Hampson
  - Operation Crusoe / Fire in the Sky / Space Race / The Vanishing Scientists / Space Rocks / The Men from STEAL / The Unseen Enemy / Operation Triceratops / The Solid Gold Asteroid
- The Man from Nowhere. With Frank Hampson 6(19)-6(47)
- Rogue Planet. With Frank Hampson 6(48)-8(7) abridged
- Reign of the Robots. With Frank Hampson 8(8)-9(4) abridged

Other information

Nicholas Hill's extensive Dan Dare and Eagle Comic Site
Peter Inns's Dan Dare Site, including Eagle Webring link
Norman Wright and Mike Higgs. The Dan Dare Dossier.

Novels/Collections : reviews

Dan Dare Facsimile (series)

Series review:
[Mekon]

The famous British Dan Dare comic strip ran in the Eagle from 1950 to 1967. Hawk have published a wonderful facsimile edition, in 12 volumes, of all but a few of these classic adventures. (The missing adventures, listed in volume 12, from late in the run, have been left out because they were in black and white, or in a unsuitable format, as the Eagle messed about with the strip in its later life.)

Square-jawed, clean-cut, strangely-eyebrowed Colonel Dan Dare, accompanied by his faithful Wigan batman Digby (for comic relief), is an heroic space pilot in the United Nations Space Fleet. He zips about the Solar System, and occasionally beyond, having adventures with a variety of humanoid aliens (distinguuished mainly by their different colour skins -- green, blue, gold), and battling the evil Mekon and other dangers with a combination of courage, integrity, and two strong fists. A classic (although it does tail off towards the end, as the Eagle messed about with the strip...).