Dan Dare Dan Dare Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories. Dare appeared in the "Eagle" comic story "Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future" from 1950 to 1967 (and subsequently in reprints), and dramatised seven times a week on Radio Luxembourg (1951–1956). The stories were set in the late 1990s, but the dialogue and manner of the characters is reminiscent of British war films of the 1950s. Dan Dare has been described as "Biggles in Space" and as the British equivalent of Buck Rogers. Dan Dare was distinguished by
Phyllis Dare Yvette in "The Street Singer" (1924; 360 performances at the Lyric Theatre and on tour), and as Fay Blake in Rodgers and Hart's "Lido Lady" at the Gaiety Theatre (1926), in which she introduced the song "Atlantic Blues." She then turned to straight plays. Some of these included "Aren't We All" (1929) "Words and Music" (1932), and "The Fugitives" (1936). Dare also appeared in a few films including "The Argentine Tango and Other Dances" (1913), "Dr. Wake's Patient" (1916), "The Common Law" (1923), "Crime on the Hill" (1933), "Debt of Honour" (1936), "Marigold" (1938) and "Gildersleeve on Broadway" (1943). A