Hello Everyone,

Welcome to the Autumn edition of Spaceship Away. Our cover shows a piece of dramatic art of the villain, Xel, by Keith Watson.

Tim Booth concludes his Dan Dare, Shakedown Cruise story. Has The Mekon finally been destroyed? This is followed by a new 4 page complete story, The Murder Run, by Keith Howard, drawn by William Rudling and coloured by Martin Baines.

Our main feature, The Story of My Life by David Motton, details his childhood, career as editor and scriptwriter of many well known comics and strip stories, in Dandy, Comet, Commando, Knockout, Eagle etc.

Operation Pintos concludes. We have 4 pages of Space News by Ray Wright and a further 6 pages of The Golden Amazon story.

Artist and writer, Alan Vince, look back at how he ended up talking and writing about his favourite comic strip artists and writers. We finish with our humour strip, Earthward Bound.

As another festive season approaches, I would like to wish one and all, “A Very Happy Christmas."

Des Shaw.