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
Brendan McCarthy writer Peter Milligan in 1978. McCarthy held a solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and collages at "Car Breaker Gallery" in London, a squat in Ladbroke Grove's Republic of Frestonia. McCarthy started working for "2000 AD" including Judge Dredd and at the same time he was working on designs for his first television show – the unmade "Dan Dare" live-action television series for Lew Grade's ATV in the late 1970s. It was to have been a stylish retro 50's take on the classic "Eagle" hero with James Fox as Dan Dare. Inspired by George Miller's "Mad Max 2", McCarthy mulled over