Eagle (British comics) of a planned television series, persuaded IPC's comic arm Fleetway to relaunch "Eagle" in 1982, as a weekly comic edited by Dave Hunt. The original Dan Dare was no longer a feature of the comic, his eponymous great-great grandson taking on the mantle of space explorer instead. Drawn by Gerry Embleton, and later Ian Kennedy, and set 200 years after the original story, the first story-arc featured the return of Dan Dare's earliest nemesis, The Mekon. IPC were unable to recreate the popularity of the original strip, and in 1989 the original Dan Dare returned to the comic, in a
Frank S. Pepper the strip, from Pepper's outline, after four episodes, using the pseudonym Stewart Colwyn. Other series he wrote scripts for included "Dan Dare" for "Eagle", "Jet-Ace Logan" in "The Comet" and "Tiger" and "The Spellbinder" for "Lion. He retired from comics in 1983, and started compiling collections of quotations, including "Twentieth Century Quotations", "Contemporary Biographical Quotations", "Dictionary of Biographical Quotations" and "Twentieth Century Anecdotes". He died in Cornwall on 11 December 1988. He was married and had four children. Frank S. Pepper Frank Stuart Pepper (8 February 1910 – 11 December 1988) was a British writer of comics and story papers