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
Dan Dare and "Torchwood" character, has several similarities to Dan Dare. The script for the episode "The Empty Child" in which Captain Jack makes his first appearance describes him as having "the jawline of Dan Dare, the smile of a bastard". Most of the 1950s and 1960s strips were reprinted by Hawk Books between 1987 and 1995. Stories left out were : In 2004, Titan Books began collecting the series from the beginning of the Hampson run in dust-jacketed hardback editions. Collected thus far: The Morrison/Hughes "Revolver" series has been collected by Fleetway in 1991 as "Dare: The Controversial Memoir of Dan