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
The Berkshire Eagle The Berkshire Eagle The Berkshire Eagle is an American daily newspaper published in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and covering all of Berkshire County, as well as four New York communities near Pittsfield. It is considered a newspaper of record for Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Published daily since 1892, "The Eagle" has been owned since May 2, 2016 by a group of local Berkshire County investors, who purchased "The Eagle" and its three Vermont sister newspapers for an undisclosed sum from Digital First Media. "The Eagle"'s roots go back to a weekly newspaper, the "Western Star", later known as the "Berkshire Star", founded in