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 Rose" (1922). During her later career, she turned to straight plays, some of which included "Aren't We All" in 1929, "Words and Music" in 1932 and "The Fugitives" in 1936. She appeared occasionally in films, starring in "The Argentine Tango and Other Dances" in 1913, "Dr. Wake's Patient" in 1916, "Crime on the Hill" in 1933 and "Debt of Honour" in 1936. In the 1940s she appeared in a tour of "Full House" and was later cast in "Other People's Houses". In 1949, Dare opened as Marta the mistress in Ivor Novello's musical, "King's Rhapsody". The show ran for two