Eagle (Comic Book): Eagle (Comic Book) Characters, Eagle (Comic Book) Titles, Dan Dare, Doomlord, Frank Bellamy, Robo Machines

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Eagle (comic book) characters, Eagle (comic book) titles, Dan Dare, Doomlord, Frank Bellamy, Robo Machines, List of Eagle comic strips, Billy's Boots, The Mekon, Computer Warrior, The Thirteenth Floor, M.A.C.H. 1, Frank Hampson, The Tower King, Spaceship Away, The Collector, The House of Daemon, Thunderbolt and Smokey!, Luck of the Legion, Sgt. Streetwise, Joe Soap, Last Three of Venus, Manix, Storm Nelson, Ernie, Harris Tweed, Waldorf & Cecil. Excerpt: 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 7 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 story is a Dan Dare mini-series published by Virgin Comics. It is written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Gary Erskine and is a completely new and somewhat darker intrepretation of Dan Dare. Dan Dare appeared on the cover of the first issue of the weekly comic strip magazine, Eagle, on 14 April 1950. There were two large colour pages of his story per issue. The artwork was of a high quality, the product of artists in a studio called the Old Bakehouse in Churchtown, Southport, Lancashire. The Eagle's founder, the Rev Marcus Morris, was vicar of ...