Dan Dare the Maggon, a combination of the Mekon and Margaret Thatcher. Radio DJ and Comedian Kenny Everett's character Captain Kremmen was inspired by Dan Dare. A porcine pastiche, "", written by Lew Stringer and with art by Malcolm Douglas, appeared in "Oink!" comic. Marvel Comics created a Dan Dare-esque character in their Captain Britain line in the 1980s. The character was Roy Risk, one of the British heroes killed by The Fury. In Jonathan Hickman's "Avengers" series, the character Smasher's secret identity is astronomer Isabel 'Izzy' Dare whose dying elderly grandfather alludes to Izzy as inheriting a destiny from him. He
Truth or Dare? (1986 film) that "Truth or Dare?" was "a typical, entertaining, and typically entertaining low-budget, direct-to-home-video '80s slasher/horror entry. It contains all the requisites: some nudity, lots of violence (some graphic, all cheesy), a masked madman, and plot holes so glaring, it seems like big chunks of the film are just missing (they aren't)". The film was followed by three sequels, all of them written and directed by Tim Ritter, and released direct-to-video. They are 1994's "Wicked Games", 1998's "Screaming for Sanity: Truth or Dare 3", and 2011's "Deadly Dares: Truth or Dare Part IV". Funds for a fifth film, titled "I Dared