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,
Reginald Dare Reginald Dare Reginald Arthur Dare (born 26 November 1921 at Blandford Forum, Dorset; died October 1993 at Bournemouth, Dorset) was an English first-class cricketer and footballer. Dare was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. Dare made his first-class debut for Hampshire against Oxford University in 1949. Dare represented Hampshire in 109 first-class matches from 1949 to 1954, with his final first-class appearance for the county coming against Essex in the 1954 County Championship. In his 109 first-class matches for the county Dare scored 1,679 runs at a batting average of 12.25, with three half centuries and a single