Issue 67


Part 67 (40 pp) Autumn 2025	Page	Contents - PART 67
	Front	Dan Dare meets the ruler of the Phants
	3-6	The Rotorcruiser Affair: a Dan Dare Story. The would-be World Dictator, Rodrigues delivers his ultimatum, but has forgotten that Rotor-2 is not far away, with Dan Dare and his crew..
	7-11	Eric Kinkaid: From the Memoirs of Dan Dare, a biography, by Andrew Darlington. Eric Kinkaid, drew, amongst other things, the final Dan Dare story to appear in the weekly issues of The Eagle, before it merged with Lion.
	12-17	Jeff Hawke in "Pass the Parcel" Part 5, by Sydney Jordan. Original monochrome colored by Martin Baines. The buried ship has survived the atomic blast at the borehole. Opening the hatch Jeff and crew find the armoured suit once occupied by the pilot. There is harmless-looking corroded cylinder in the main cabin.
	18-19	Dan Dare Story Character Profile: Gogol, the Phant Ruler.
	20-21	Centre-spread: A Spacefleet Christmas celebration montage, with a theme from the "Underwater Attack" story
	22-25	Space Review, by Raymond Wright.: SpaceX finally gets their Starship to complete a sub-orbital test flight, though not without some damage. There is a new hope for a European fully-re-usable space plane. In the USA the first test flight of a new compact, more efficient rocket engine takes place. An in-depth study of an interstellar colonial expedition is reported, Also,the work of the undeservedly little-known astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who established that the stars are made of hydrogen and helium, and are not hot rocks, as her fellow astronomer had assumed, is reviewed.
	26-29	Kalgan The Golden. (Part ?) Story by E C Tubb, artwork: Ron Turner,, script: adapted by Philip Harbottle, and editing + layout by John Lawrence..Kalgan, Tharg and Leedora travel to the world where Kalgan gained his immortality.
	30--33	Space Elevators. This well-established concept has been studied for many decades, It consists of nothing more than a ground anchor, a cable stretching upwards to a geostationary "top floor" station, a counter-weight some distance beyond, and an elevator-like vehicle that can climb and descend the cable between the ground anchor and the top floor. The essential super-strong material needed for the cables has, so far, not been found.
	34	Spacefleet Insignia of Rank, by Frank Hampson.
	35-38	Operation Plum Pudding: a Dan Dare story.
	39	Space Humour: Earthward Bound Sir Stilton Cheddar falls into a chasm, but is caught by by a very springy tree, growing out of the cliff-side, and is thrown back up, just far enough for him to flop back onto the surface.
	Back	A Christmas greeting, by Keith Watson