Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future

Contributed by D Jones


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Dan Dare is first seen on 14th April, 1950, on the covers of the first issue of Eagle. A “Strip Cartoon Weekly” that proved immensely popular with the British public, the first issue selling nearly one million copies.

“Dan Dare” and his subtitle “Pilot of the Future” are seen on the cover in Cartoon (Bauer, 1936), an informal and extremely mid-20th-century brush script. Cartoon is also used on a yellow band on the header, introducing “Eagle — the new national strip cartoon weekly”.

Dan Dare was the undoubted star of Eagle and was “the UK’s first science-fiction comic strip of any significance” (from Wikipedia).

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