| The Strips |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Ray Aspden |
MEKKI :- A series of one-page humorous tales, based around the Mekon | Issue 4 | Continues |
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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 the Mekon and his renegade Treens have stowed away on board . . . |
Issue 4 | Issue 22 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Story:
Phillip Harbottle Drawn: Ron Turner Colour: John Ridgway |
NICK HAZZARD,
Interstellar Agent MISSION to VORGA |
Issue 16 | Issue 20 |
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Story:
John Freeman Art: Mike Nicoll |
EX ASTRIS - SECRETS OF CERES :- An Ex Astris prequel story | Issue 16 | Issue 18 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Story:
Jim Edgar Art: Frank Bellamy Colour: John Ridgway |
GARTH :-
The Bubble Man
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Issue 19 | Continues |
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Story:
Sydney Jordan Art: Sydney Jordan & Theyon Rich Colour: Angus McKie
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PLANET ON SUNDAY'S DAN DARE - All three drawn pages shown in Part 22 |
Issue 22 | Issue 22 |