Dan Dare Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett wrote Dan Dare into his song "Astronomy Domine", from the band's debut album "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", with the line "Stairway scare, Dan Dare, who's there?" David Bowie's song "D.J." contains the somewhat obscure lyric: "I feel like Dan Dare lies down" Sir Elton John recorded "Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future)" for his 1975 album "Rock Of The Westies". British punk rock group The Mekons included a song "Dan Dare" on their album "The Quality of Mercy is not Strnen". The album Below the Waste by the Art of Noise opened
Dan Dare inside of the comic, in black and white, and was drawn by Keith Watson. Over the remaining years the strip varied in format and quality, eventually returning to the front page in colour, until it ended in 1967 with Dan retiring to become Space Fleet controller. Strips from the 1950s were reprinted until 1969, when "Eagle" merged with "Lion". For a while the reprints continued in black and white in "Lion". In 1977, Dan Dare appeared again in the first issue of "2000 AD" (26 February 1977). The first instalment, scripted by Ken Armstrong and Pat Mills, had the character