Last Three of Venus for the failure of the Mekon's plans to gain power. Last Three of Venus The Last Three of Venus are fictional aliens, adversaries of the British comic book hero Dan Dare, appearing in the Eagle comic strip "Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future": they are allies of Dan Dare's arch-enemy The Mekon. The Last Three are creators of the elektrobots that the Mekon uses to conquer the Earth in "Reign of the Robots" and are mentioned at the end of the coda story "The Ship that Lived", when the Mekon escapes after sending them a distress signal in the Flamelands
Dan Dare the story and its successor, "Prisoners of Space" (the only series to feature extensive work by an artist outside the studio, finishes being provided by Desmond Walduck. Hampson returned full-time in 1955, starting "The Man from Nowhere" trilogy, which took Dan and his companions outside the Solar System for the first time. The quality of the strip and its popularity remained high throughout the 1950s. In the late fifties "Eagle"'s new owners objected to the cost of the studio and the complexity of the stories. The conflict caused Hampson to leave the strip in 1959, in the middle of a