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
Eagle (British comics) David Hockney were first published in "Eagle". X-Men comic scriptwriter Chris Claremont read and enjoyed "Eagle", and cites Hampson's work as influential on his career. Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons has also praised Hampson's work, and the author Tim Rice, in his foreword to "Living with Eagles" (1998), cites the stories printed in "Eagle" as helping "me in my story-telling efforts through musicals many years on." Professor Stephen Hawking, when asked about the influence Dan Dare had on him, replied: "Why am I in cosmology?", and the entertainer Kenny Everett chose an "Eagle Annual" as his book on "Desert Island Discs".