Dan Dare to celebrate their 20th anniversary, "2000 AD" published two issues with additional free comics, the first a reprint of the first issue of "2000 AD", which starred Dan Dare. The second free comic was a speculative issue called "3000 AD" which contained strips partially based on the first issue of "2000 AD". One strip was entitled "The Return of Dan Dare", which also featured the return of the Mekon. In 1982 "Eagle" was re-launched, with "Dan Dare" again its flagship strip. The new character was the great-great-great-grandson of the original hero—the only surviving character from the original strip being the
Truth or Dare? (1986 film) that "Truth or Dare?" was "a typical, entertaining, and typically entertaining low-budget, direct-to-home-video '80s slasher/horror entry. It contains all the requisites: some nudity, lots of violence (some graphic, all cheesy), a masked madman, and plot holes so glaring, it seems like big chunks of the film are just missing (they aren't)". The film was followed by three sequels, all of them written and directed by Tim Ritter, and released direct-to-video. They are 1994's "Wicked Games", 1998's "Screaming for Sanity: Truth or Dare 3", and 2011's "Deadly Dares: Truth or Dare Part IV". Funds for a fifth film, titled "I Dared