Dan Dare Mekon. The initial artist was Gerry Embleton, who drew Dan to resemble the original exactly, but he was quickly replaced by Ian Kennedy, who gave the hero a younger look and blond hair. The opening "Dan Dare" story was an epic, lasting 18 months, written by Pat Mills and John Wagner. It opened with a flashback to the unseen final defeat of the Mekon by the original Dan, after which he was sealed inside an artificial asteroid and exiled into space. Centuries later he was accidentally freed and returned to conquer Earth. A few years later the descendant of his
Greatest Hits 1974–78 album versions. A prior greatest hits album, 1972's "Anthology", contained songs from the first five albums. The more comprehensive "Young Hearts: Complete Greatest Hits" in 2003 added early hits "Living in the U.S.A.", "My Dark Hour", "Space Cowboy", and "Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma" and later hits "Abracadabra", "Who Do You Love", "I Want to Make the World Turn Around", "Wide River", and "Cry Cry Cry", but dropped this album's "True Fine Love" and "Winter Time". On the 2003 compilation, the original album versions are used (although the track "Fly Like an Eagle" still fades out earlier