Dan Dare revived from suspended animation after two hundred years to find himself in a different world. The Mekon had also survived but otherwise the cast was different, as was the tone of the strip (heavily influenced by the punk movement, as was much of "2000 AD") and the personality of the title character. Written by Kelvin Gosnell and then Steve Moore, the strip was initially illustrated by Massimo Bellardinelli, whose Dare owed nothing to the original apart from the wavy eyebrows. After 23 issues in this format the strip took a break for a month and then returned in a revamped
Spaceship Away Spaceship Away Spaceship Away is an illustrated magazine, largely based on the classic British space hero Dan Dare, from the pages of "Eagle", a boys' illustrated magazine, published in the UK and running from 1950 to 1966, featuring new full colour stories written and drawn in the style of series creator Frank Hampson. Spaceship Away was created by Rod Barzilay as an attempt to revive the original Dan Dare of the 1950s and early 1960s. It was born after Rod's efforts to arrange publication of the story he had written, and persuaded original Dan Dare artists Keith Watson and Don