Dan Dare from acquiring the mystical Crystal of Life. On his return to Earth, he and his Treen companion Sondar find themselves branded traitors and found guilty of helping the Mekon to steal the Crystal. This story arc concluded with the pair escaping the Earth authorities and going on the run to try to clear their names by tracking down the Mekon and recovering the Crystal, establishing the format for the next story arc. Despite promises that Dare and Sondar would be back, the "2000 AD" Dan Dare strip "Attack on Eternium" ended here in prog 126 (18 August 1979). In 1997,
Lion (comics) Lion (comics) Lion was a weekly British comics periodical published by Fleetway (a subsidiary of IPC, the International Publishing Corporation) from 23 February 1952 to 18 May 1974. It lasted for 1,156 issues. "Lion" was first published on 23 February 1952, and was a weekly boys' adventure comic designed to compete with "Eagle", the popular weekly comic that had introduced Dan Dare. "Lion"s first issue contained a mix of text stories and comic strips; its flagship story was "Captain Condor – Space Ship Pilot", a science fiction adventure in the Dan Dare mould. The premiere issue also contained the first