Dan Dare Mekon. The initial artist was Gerry Embleton, who drew Dan to resemble the original exactly, but he was quickly replaced by Ian Kennedy, who gave the hero a younger look and blond hair. The opening "Dan Dare" story was an epic, lasting 18 months, written by Pat Mills and John Wagner. It opened with a flashback to the unseen final defeat of the Mekon by the original Dan, after which he was sealed inside an artificial asteroid and exiled into space. Centuries later he was accidentally freed and returned to conquer Earth. A few years later the descendant of his
Arnold S. Eagle from 1955 until shortly before his death. Arnold S. Eagle Arnold Eagle (1909 Budapest, Hungary - October 25, 1992 New York City) was a Hungarian-American photographer and cinematographer, known for his socially concerned documentary photographs of the 1930s and 1940s. Eagle emigrated from Hungary to Brooklyn with his family in 1929. He joined the Workers Film and Photo League in 1932 to use his art to promote radical social change. In 1935, the Works Progress Administration hired him to photograph New York slums, the Second Avenue El district and the Lower East Side. In 1936, he joined the Photo League