Dan Dare Despite a fairly small circulation (it is available only via mail order, through its own Web site or in a select few comic shops), "Spaceship Away" continues to appear three times a year. In 2017 a four-issue mini-series by Peter Milligan and Alberto Foche was announced by Titan Comics. "The New Adventures of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future" aired five times a week on Radio Luxembourg for five years from 2 July 1951. Dan's voice was Noel Johnson, who also played Dick Barton on BBC radio. Each episode started with the command "Spaceships Away!". The 15-minute show was sponsored
Frank Bellamy to "Dan Dare". Bellamy took over "Dan Dare" part way through the "Terra Nova" storyline, replacing creator Frank Hampson. It was an awkward set-up: the new owners of "Eagle" thought the strip looked dated, so gave Bellamy the brief of redesigning everything, from the costumes and spacecraft to the page layouts. Bellamy was left to draw the title page unaided (in contrast to Hampson's many-hands approach, where the drawing, inking, lettering and colouring were all separately completed by a team of artists), while two of Hampson's former assistants, Keith Watson and Don Harley, had to do the second page. Bellamy's