Strips

The Strips

Artist - Writer	Title & Content	Started	Finished
Art : Keith Watson & Don Harley Story : Rod Barzilay	THE PHOENIX MISSION :- A 1950’s EAGLE style DAN DARE tale, set in 2012, a few months after “The Ship That Lived” story. A salvage/survey team arrives at the ‘Sargasso Sea of Space’ but they find a lot more than they bargained for!	Issue 1	Issue 4 [sample]
Andy Boyce	DAN BEAR :- A light-hearted tale of a bear society. A road-sweeper bear is "volunteered" to become Britain's first space bear.	Issue 1	Paused [sample]
Art : Martin Baines Story : An expanded version of a Nicholas Hill story, by Martin.	PROJECT PLUTO :- A DAN DARE adventure set in 2024. Dan (now Spacefleet Controller) is about to send the Argo (a new research spacecraft) to investigate strange happenings around Pluto	Issue 2	Paused [sample]
Ray Aspden	SPACEMAN DIGBY’S AFTER DINNER DREAM! :- A four page story that manages to mix up Dan Dare, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers all in one strip!	Issue 2	Issue 2 [sample]
Keith Page	ROCKET PILOT :- The early years of Sir Hubert Guest, which not only tells his story but that of the birth of Spacefleet as well.	Issue 3	Continues [sample]
Ray Aspden	MEKKI :- A series of one-page humorous tales, based around the Mekon	Issue 4	Continues [sample]
Art : David Pugh, Don Harley, Tim Booth Story : Rod Barzilay	GREEN NEMESIS :- A follow-on tale from the Phoenix Mission - an expanded science team leave Venus to return to the Sargasso Sea of Space not knowing the Mekon and his renegade Treens have stowed away on board . . .	Issue 4	Continues [sample]
Eric MacKenzie	DAN DIRE:- A parody of what has happened to the Dan Dare strip over the years . . .	Issue 4	Issue 19 [sample]
Ray Aspden	OUR BERTIE :- Light-hearted tales based around Mrs Digby’s little lad . . .	Issue 4	Continues [sample]
Art : Andrew Skilleter Story : Simon Garrett	ALL CHANGE ( text with illustrations) : - A DAN DARE tale, linking “Trip to Trouble” to “Project Nimbus” Explaining what had happened on Earth while Dan and co. were away on Terra Nova, why the new look!	Issue 5	Issue 7 [sample]
Art & Story: Ray Aspden	MAROONED ON (Freddie) MERCURY :- Brian May (Queen) wrote a forward in one of the Titan DD reprint books - Ray couldn’t resist a light hearted mix of Queens music on Mercury!	Issue 6	Issue 6 [sample]
Art : Ferdinando Tacconi Story : Charles Chilton	Journey into space - PLANET OF FEAR :- A JET MORGAN adventure set after the BBC’s “The World in Peril” story first published in the Express Weekly in 1956.	Issue 7	Issue 21 [sample]
Art: Sydney Jordan Recoloured by : John Ridgway	HAL STARR :- A new space adventure strip to English readers that was first published in Holland some years ago. Hal Starr leads the first manned expedition to the planet Mars . . .	Issue 8	Issue 15 [sample]
Art & Story: Tim Booth	THE GATES OF EDEN - A new Dan Dare strip story portrayed "Old Eagle" style and set about 15 months before THE RED MOON MYSTERY	Issue 9	Issue 21 [sample]
Art & Story: Ian McClumpha	SPACE GIRLS Space Girls is a CGI strip following the tongue-in-cheek adventures of two mischievous space pirates!	Issue 15	Issue 18 [sample]
Story: Phillip Harbottle Drawn: Ron Turner Colour: John Ridgway	NICK HAZZARD, Interstellar Agent MISSION to VORGA	Issue 16	Issue 20 [sample]
Story: John Freeman Art: Mike Nicoll	EX ASTRIS - SECRETS OF CERES :- An Ex Astris prequel story	Issue 16	Issue 18 [sample]
Story: John Freeman Art: Mike Nicoll	EX ASTRIS - HOMECOMING :- We jump over four hundred years since Secrets of Ceres, the spaceship "Armstrong" returns to a devastated Earth.	Issue 20	Issue 21 [sample]
Story: Jim Edgar Art: Frank Bellamy Colour: John Ridgway	GARTH :- The Bubble Man	Issue 19	Continues [sample]