Last Three of Venus 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 of Venus. They are seen in "All Treens Must Die"
Dan Dare and "Torchwood" character, has several similarities to Dan Dare. The script for the episode "The Empty Child" in which Captain Jack makes his first appearance describes him as having "the jawline of Dan Dare, the smile of a bastard". Most of the 1950s and 1960s strips were reprinted by Hawk Books between 1987 and 1995. Stories left out were : In 2004, Titan Books began collecting the series from the beginning of the Hampson run in dust-jacketed hardback editions. Collected thus far: The Morrison/Hughes "Revolver" series has been collected by Fleetway in 1991 as "Dare: The Controversial Memoir of Dan