The Strips | |||
Artist - Writer | Title & Content | Started | Finished |
Art : | THE PHOENIX MISSION :- A 1950’s EAGLE style DAN DARE tale, set in 2012, a few months after “The Ship That Lived” story. A salvage/survey team arrives at the ‘Sargasso Sea of Space’ but they find a lot more than they bargained for! | Issue 1 | Issue 4 |
Andy Boyce | DAN BEAR :- A light-hearted tale of a bear society. A road-sweeper bear is "volunteered" to become Britain's first space bear. | Issue 1 | Issue 20 |
Art : Martin Baines | PROJECT PLUTO :- A DAN DARE adventure set in 2024. Dan (now Spacefleet Controller) is about to send the Argo (a new research spacecraft) to investigate strange happenings around Pluto | Issue 2 | Paused |
Ray Aspden | SPACEMAN DIGBY’S AFTER DINNER DREAM! :- A four page story that manages to mix up Dan Dare, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers all in one strip! | Issue 2 | Issue 2 [sample] |
Keith Page | ROCKET PILOT :- The early years of Sir Hubert Guest, which not only tells his story but that of the birth of Spacefleet as well. | Issue 3 | Issue 18 |
Ray Aspden | MEKKI :- A series of one-page humorous tales, based around the Mekon | Issue 4 | Continues |
Art : David Pugh, Don Harley, Tim Booth | GREEN NEMESIS :- A follow-on tale from the Phoenix Mission - an expanded science team leave Venus to return to the Sargasso Sea of Space not knowing that the Mekon and his renegade Treens have stowed away on board . . . | Issue 4 | Issue 22 |
Eric MacKenzie | DAN DIRE:- A parody of what has happened to the Dan Dare strip over the years . . . | Issue 4 | Issue 19 |
Ray Aspden | OUR BERTIE :- Light-hearted tales based around Mrs Digby’s little lad . . . | Issue 4 | Continues |
Art : Andrew Skilleter | ALL CHANGE ( text with illustrations) : - A DAN DARE tale, linking “Trip to Trouble” to “Project Nimbus” Explaining what had happened on Earth while Dan and co. were away on Terra Nova, why the new look! | Issue 5 | Issue 7 |
Art & Story: Ray Aspden | MAROONED ON (Freddie) MERCURY :- Brian May (Queen) wrote a forward in one of the Titan DD reprint books - Ray couldn’t resist a light hearted mix of Queens music on Mercury! | Issue 6 | Issue 6 |
Art : Ferdinando Tacconi | Journey into space - PLANET OF FEAR :- A JET MORGAN adventure set after the BBC’s “The World in Peril” story first published in the Express Weekly in 1956. | Issue 7 | Issue 21 |
Art: Sydney Jordan Recoloured by : John Ridgway | HAL STARR :- A new space adventure strip to English readers that was first published in Holland some years ago. Hal Starr leads the first manned expedition to the planet Mars . . . | Issue 8 | Issue 15 |
Art & Story: Tim Booth | THE GATES OF EDEN - A new Dan Dare strip story portrayed "Old Eagle" style and set about 15 months before THE RED MOON MYSTERY | Issue 9 | Issue 21 |
Art & Story: Ian McClumpha | SPACE GIRLS Space Girls is a CGI strip following the tongue-in-cheek adventures of two mischievous space pirates! | Issue 15 | Issue 18 |
Story: Phillip Harbottle Drawn: Ron Turner Colour: John Ridgway | NICK HAZZARD, Interstellar Agent MISSION to VORGA | Issue 16 | Issue 20 |
Story: John Freeman Art: Mike Nicoll | EX ASTRIS - SECRETS OF CERES :- An Ex Astris prequel story | Issue 16 | Issue 18 |
Story: John Freeman Art: Mike Nicoll | EX ASTRIS - HOMECOMING :- We jump over four hundred years since Secrets of Ceres, the spaceship "Armstrong" returns to a devastated Earth. | Issue 20 | Issue 21 |
Art : Ferdinando Tacconi | Journey into space - SHADOW OVER BRITAIN :- A JET MORGAN adventure. | Issue 22 | Continues |
Art & Story: Tim Booth | PARSECULAR TALES - An entirely new Dan Dare strip story portrayed "Old Eagle" style | Issue 22 | Continues |
Story: Jim Edgar Art: Frank Bellamy Colour: John Ridgway | GARTH :- The Bubble Man
| Issue 19 | Issue 23 |
Story: Sydney Jordan Art: Sydney Jordan & Theyon Rich Colour: Angus McKie | PLANET ON SUNDAY'S DAN DARE - All three drawn pages shown in Part 22 | Issue 22 | Issue 22 |
Story: John Freeman Art: Mike Nicoll | Dan Dare: Pre-Emptive Strike - A two part story | Issue 23 | Issue 26 |
Story: Jim Edgar Art: Martin Asbury | Garth: Finality Factor | Issue 24 | Issue 31 |
Story: Tim Booth Art: Tim Booth | Dan Dare: Digby's Bad Dream | Issue 24 | Issue 24 |
Story by Sydney Jordan, Art Don Harley | Dan Dare: Missiles & Mistletoe | Issue 25 | Issue 25 |
Story: Don Harley Art: Don Harley | Dan Dare: Dan & Digby's Happy Landing | Issue 25 | Issue 25 |
Story: Tim Booth Art: Tim Booth | Dan Dare: Shakedown Cruise | Issue 41 | Continues |