What was the name of Dan Dare's co-pilot, in the comic strip adventures in the Eagle comic?
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future is a 1986 video game by Virgin Games for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 home computer systems. It is based on the classic British comic strip "Dan Dare". The Commodore 64 version was considerably different in gameplay to the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions. The Mekon reveals his typically dastardly plan: Earth must submit to his terms or he will propel a hollowed-out asteroid the size of a small planet into Earth. Dan and his sidekick Digby fly to the asteroid in Dan's spaceship,
Garth (comic strip) Gordon Boshell were the originators of the Garth character. Dowling wanted to create a British adventure comic strip, and took inspiration from the American comic strips "Superman", "Flash Gordon" and "Terry and the Pirates". Dowling and Boshell took on 15-year-old John Allard to work on "Garth", who stayed with the strip for its entire lifetime. After 59 adventures Dowling retired and handed "Garth" over to Allard, which he carried on until 1971 when Eagle comics' Dan Dare artist, Frank Bellamy, took over the art with Allard writing the scripts. "Garth's" longevity had been established by Don Freeman, who created almost