Issue 65


Part 65 (36 pp) Spring 2025	Page	Contents - PART 65
	Front	Pursued by a Phant walking machine
	2	Editorial, plus highlighting tw classic science fiction novels by Robert Heinlein, and Charles Chilton
	3-6	Dan Dare in The Rotorcruiser Affair (Pt. 4).Dan and companions just fail to catch up with Rodriques and his henchman, who board the (inadequately guarded) Rotor-2 spaceship, and head off on a pre-determined course.
	7-11	Don Conquest - the space travel story everyone is talking about, by Andrew Darlington. Disney launched Mickey Mouse Weekly, a children's magazine in 1936. It lasted for 920 issues. , and in 1954 it launched a new character, the space hero Don Conquest, whose adventures were depicted in monochrome strip illustration. The series ended in September 1956. The advenutres of don conquest are discussed is detail, along with other related published material,, for which Wernher von Braun and his associate Willy Ley acted as consultants.
	12-17	Jeff Hawke in "Pass the Parcel" (Pt 3), by Sydney Jordan. Commander Hawke appears unexpectedly, near the water borehole and instructs his puzzled crewmen to create a new hole, close to the alien artefact, and pour all the water collected so far, down the hole. That was a really unfortunate thing to do...
	18-19	Dan Dare Story Character Profile: "Triangle", one of the Phant High Command.
	20-21	Centre-spread. A model of Tharl's flagship from Dan Dare's Operation Saturn. The model was created by Sid Clark.
	22-25	Space Review, by Raymond Wright. Test Flight 5 (good) and Test Flight 6 (not so good) of SpaceX's starship test and development programme are discussed, with pictures. Some highly significant astronomical observations are alos discussed, including an image of a red giant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
	26-29	Kalgan The Golden. (Pt. 2) by E C Tubb with artwork by Ron Turner, script adaptation by Philip Harbottle, and editing and layout by John Lawrence.. Kalgan explains and demonstrated to Tharg what makes him immortal..
	32-34	British Science Fiction Hardcover Editions of the 1950s, (Pt,. 3) by Philip Harbottle.. Philip continues the discussion of the good and also the less-than-good novels of the 1950s, Publishing as as much about money as it is about ingenious and engaging stories. There were publishers, in those days, who felt that they could use the genre of science fiction to appeal to male readers' baser instincts, in order to sell more books. They succeeded, for a while. "Flesh Gordon" is not discussed, here, but you get the idea.
	35-38	Dan Dare in The Alien Predators (Pt. 1) A space freighter is boarded by Earth Customs officials, who break communication. Dan, Digby and two SF security guards are sent to investigate. They encounter an aggressive alien predator which eats one of the guards. The other one is eaten later, after the remaining three encounter The Mekon.
	39	Space Humour: Dan Dare in Stripey's Terra Nova Visit. Story : Brian Berke, Art Dave Windett.
	Back	Dare and Digby, are called into the presence of their artist, Don Harley!