Dan Dare for 14 issues, returning early in 1979 in "2000 AD"'s 100th issue. The amnesiac Dare is rescued from space by the Mekon and indoctrinated into the Mekon's army before eventually recovering his memory. Now penned by Tom Tully but still drawn by Dave Gibbons, this re-imagining of Dare casts him almost as a superhero with a colourful tight-fitting uniform provided by the Mekon. Dare escapes to a planet that is home to an amphibian-like race, which claims he is their Chosen One. There he receives a semi-mystical glove that can shoot energy beams but is unable to prevent the Mekon
Frank S. Pepper the strip, from Pepper's outline, after four episodes, using the pseudonym Stewart Colwyn. Other series he wrote scripts for included "Dan Dare" for "Eagle", "Jet-Ace Logan" in "The Comet" and "Tiger" and "The Spellbinder" for "Lion. He retired from comics in 1983, and started compiling collections of quotations, including "Twentieth Century Quotations", "Contemporary Biographical Quotations", "Dictionary of Biographical Quotations" and "Twentieth Century Anecdotes". He died in Cornwall on 11 December 1988. He was married and had four children. Frank S. Pepper Frank Stuart Pepper (8 February 1910 – 11 December 1988) was a British writer of comics and story papers