Dan Dare revived from suspended animation after two hundred years to find himself in a different world. The Mekon had also survived but otherwise the cast was different, as was the tone of the strip (heavily influenced by the punk movement, as was much of "2000 AD") and the personality of the title character. Written by Kelvin Gosnell and then Steve Moore, the strip was initially illustrated by Massimo Bellardinelli, whose Dare owed nothing to the original apart from the wavy eyebrows. After 23 issues in this format the strip took a break for a month and then returned in a revamped
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