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Danny Dare (March 20, 1905, New York City – November 20, 1996, Tarzana, Los Angeles, California) was an American choreographer, actor, director, writer, and producer of the stage, screen, and film. [1]
Danny Dare, a dancer and blacklisted Hollywood choreographer who later turned friendly witness for the House Un-American Activities Committee, has died. He was 91. Dare died Nov. 20 at the...
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- Characters Inspired by Dan Dare
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Eagle
Dan Dare appeared on the cover of the first issue of the weekly comic strip magazine, Eagle, on 14 April 1950. There were two large colour pages of his story per issue. The artwork was of a high quality, the product of artists in a studio called the Old Bakehouse in Churchtown, Southport, Lancashire. The Eagle's founder, the Rev John Marcus Harston Morris, was vicar of the Southport church of St James at the time. It had scale models of spaceships, and models in costume as reference for the a...
2000 AD
In 1977, Dan Dare appeared again in the first issue of 2000 AD (26 February 1977). The first installment, scripted by Ken Armstrong and Pat Mills, had the character revived from suspended animation after two hundred years to find himself in a different world. The Mekon had also survived but otherwise the cast was different, as was the tone of the strip (heavily influenced by the punk movement, as was much of 2000 AD) and the personality of the title character. Written by Kelvin Gosnell and th...
New Eagle
In 1982 Eagle was re-launched, with Dan Dare again its flagship strip. The new character was the great-great-great-grandson of the original hero—the only surviving character from the original strip being the Mekon. The initial artist was Gerry Embleton, who drew Dan to resemble the original exactly, but he was quickly replaced by Ian Kennedy, who gave the hero a younger look and blond hair. The opening Dan Dare story was an epic, lasting 18 months, written by Pat Mills and John Wagner. It ope...
Television
In the 1980s, a series of live-action adverts for Mobil motor oil featured Dan and Digby in comedic situations, trying to get their rockets to go faster. The dialogue was straight from wartime upper class RAF officers' slang. In 2002, Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future became a computer-generated TV series produced first by Netter Digital then by Foundation Imaging, running to twenty-six 22-minute episodes. The series drew on several comic book incarnations. It started on Nicktoons UK on 5 Novembe...
Film
In 2010, Variety announced that Warner Bros. was planning to produce a Dan Dare movie starring Sam Worthingtonin the title role.
Computer games
During the 1980s Dan Dare starred in three computer games for the Commodore 64/128, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Ataricomputers. The first was a different game on each system; the second and third were shoot'em-ups. All three were based on the 1950s strip rather than the contemporary comics: 1. Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future(1986, Electronic Arts, re-released by Ricochet) 2. Dan Dare II: The Mekon's Revenge(1988, Virgin Games, re-released by Ricochet) 3. Dan Dare III: The Escape(1990, Virgin G...
Characters inspired by or based on Dan Dare have appeared throughout British popular culture. One example is Wing Commander Leyton in British Summertime by Paul Cornell, which juxtaposes the utopian future portrayed in the original comics with the Britain of today. In the 1980s, Private Eye published Dan Dire, Pilot of The Future?. Dire was based o...
Most of the 1950s and 1960s strips were reprinted by Hawk Books between 1987 and 1995: 1. Pilot of the Future 2. The Red Moon Mystery and Marooned on Mercury 3. Operation Saturn 4. Prisoners of Space 5. The Man from Nowhere 6. Rogue Planet 7. Reign of the Robots and The Ship That Lived 8. The Phantom Fleet 9. Terra Novatrilogy 10. Project Nimbus 11...
Wright, Norman; Higgs, Mike (1990). The Dan Dare Dossier: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future. Hawk Books. ISBN 978-0948248122."Comic Strip of the Future" by Matthew Badham, in Judge Dredd Megazine#314 (September 2011), pp. 16–22"Dare to be Different" by Stephen Jewell, Judge Dredd Megazine#390 (December 2017), pp. 34–37- Interplanet Space Fleet
- Eagle #1 (14 April 1950)
Nov 30, 1996 · Nov 30, 1996. Los Angeles Times. LOS ANGELES - Danny Dare, a dancer and blacklisted Hollywood choreographer who later turned friendly witness for the House Un-American Activities Committee,...
Dec 16, 2010 · The history of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future. When Marcus Morris and Frank Hampson created Eagle at the end of the 1940s, British boys and girls were still living under rations. Daniel Tatarsky...
Danny Dare (March 20, 1905, New York City – November 20, 1996, Tarzana, Los Angeles, California) was an American choreographer, actor, director, writer, and producer of the stage, screen, and film. Dare began his career in the 1920s as an actor on the New York stage, making his Broadway theatre...
Nov 20, 1996 · Musical Comedy Original. Danny Dare is credited as Producer, Director, Performer, Writer and Choreographer.
