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
The Front Page (1931 film) Menjou, a June 28, 1937 episode of "Lux Radio Theater" with Walter Winchell and James Gleason, and a May 9, 1948 episode of the "Ford Theatre" starring Ed Begley and Everett Sloane. The story was adapted for Howard Hawks's comedy "His Girl Friday" (1940), a 1974 remake of "The Front Page" starred Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and another version was made as "Switching Channels" (1988) with Burt Reynolds, Kathleen Turner and Christopher Reeve. The Front Page (1931 film) The Front Page is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien.