Dan Dare revived from suspended animation after two hundred years to find himself in a different world. The Mekon had also survived but otherwise the cast was different, as was the tone of the strip (heavily influenced by the punk movement, as was much of "2000 AD") and the personality of the title character. Written by Kelvin Gosnell and then Steve Moore, the strip was initially illustrated by Massimo Bellardinelli, whose Dare owed nothing to the original apart from the wavy eyebrows. After 23 issues in this format the strip took a break for a month and then returned in a revamped
Lion (comics) Lion (comics) Lion was a weekly British comics periodical published by Fleetway (a subsidiary of IPC, the International Publishing Corporation) from 23 February 1952 to 18 May 1974. It lasted for 1,156 issues. "Lion" was first published on 23 February 1952, and was a weekly boys' adventure comic designed to compete with "Eagle", the popular weekly comic that had introduced Dan Dare. "Lion"s first issue contained a mix of text stories and comic strips; its flagship story was "Captain Condor – Space Ship Pilot", a science fiction adventure in the Dan Dare mould. The premiere issue also contained the first