Dan Dare Dare" (). The 2007 series had the first three issues collected into one hardback volume, released in April 2008 (), but the whole series was collected into a single volume by Virgin Comics later in the year, with Dynamite Entertainment also making hardcovers and softcovers available early in 2009: A collection of stories from 2000 AD was published in November 2015. 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
Dan Dare also continued in "Spaceship Away", a mail-order magazine created by Rod Barzilay. Its mission statement is to continue the original Dare's adventures where the original "Eagle" left off, in a style as close to that of the classic strip as possible. To that end, Barzilay originally hired former Eagle artist Keith Watson, and following Watson's death Don Harley, both of whom had drawn Dare in the 1960s, to work on the strips which are written very much in the style of the Fifties stories. Dan Dare appeared on the cover of the first issue of the weekly comic strip magazine,