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
Brendan McCarthy writer Peter Milligan in 1978. McCarthy held a solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and collages at "Car Breaker Gallery" in London, a squat in Ladbroke Grove's Republic of Frestonia. McCarthy started working for "2000 AD" including Judge Dredd and at the same time he was working on designs for his first television show – the unmade "Dan Dare" live-action television series for Lew Grade's ATV in the late 1970s. It was to have been a stylish retro 50's take on the classic "Eagle" hero with James Fox as Dan Dare. Inspired by George Miller's "Mad Max 2", McCarthy mulled over