Eagle (British comics) Riders of the Range and P.C. 49 helped ensure a weekly circulation of almost a million copies, but it was the adventures of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, which most captivated readers. Created by Hampson—now a full-time staff artist with his own team—Dan Dare was the UK's first science-fiction comic strip of any significance. Readers were thrilled by the square-jawed British spaceman's weekly exploits, and his struggles with The Mekon. While Morris (who by now had resigned from St James) edited the magazine from Hulton's premises at Shoe Lane in London, the comic was created in a converted bakery
Revolver (comics) of graphic styles and contributors ranging from a surreal inside-the-mind-of Jimi Hendrix storyline ("Purple Days"), a psychedelic superhero in the form of Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy's "Rogan Gosh", distorted caricatures in "Pinhead Nation", plus "Happenstance and Kismet", Paul Honeyford's "Fighting Figurines", student-house antics in "Dire Streets", as well as the resurrection of Dan Dare, this time in a story called simply "Dare". In "Dare", writer Grant Morrison gave a new interpretation to the original "Eagle" character in a political story setting Dan Dare against a thinly veiled caricature of the Thatcher government. "Revolver" attempted to take advantage of the