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Classic Dan Dare: Voyage to Venus Part 1 (Hardcover)

by Frank Hampson (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Titan Books Ltd (23 April 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840236442
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840236446
  • Product Dimensions: 29.2 x 22.4 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 187,972 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Reading Evening Post, August 6th 2004: " Featuring Frank Hampson's gorgeous full colour artwork, these beautiful comic strips are as vibrant and thrilling today as they were on their original debut in April 1950."; Gatewaymonthly.com October 2004: " This is brilliant, original science fiction, paving the way for such projects as Star Trek and Star Wars, but it's more than that."; BBC Cult, review by Nev Fountain, 14 December 2004: " Dan Dare is the quintessence of future nostalgia. It's a wonderfully exciting collection of stories, escapism for boys in short trousers stuffed full of catapults and cigarette cards."; Comic World News, February 4th 2005: "Titan's albums are...reprinting classic stories beautifully drawn by a team of dedicated artists headed by Hampson."

Reading Evening Post, 6 August 2004

"Featuring Frank Hampson's gorgeous full-colour artwork ... as vibrant and thrilling today as they were... in April 1950."
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5.0 out of 5 stars THE British comic that soared..., 10 Oct 2005
By Mr. D. J. Martin (London, England) - See all my reviews
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There was a time when the distant worlds of Mars and Venus were within touching distance, just a quick hop across space in a rocket. Hell there was little need for a rocket if you had enough gusto and spirit to see you through. The dream and optimism of a future that was not to be, is evoked in spectacular technicolour in these vivid accounts of Britain's favourite ace pilot: Dan Dare. His rocket-ships stream across space with the grace and agility of a Spitfire, whilst a calm head and Boy Scout ingenuity are enough to see him and his faithful northern companion, Digby, through any scrape.

Daring-do and adventure are the name of the game in this collected version of the Eagle comics of the 1950s, where excitement is never reined-in and made slave to scientific impossibilities. Yes there's a cursory appreciation for basic aeronautics, mechanics and playground science in order to lend a certain credibility (Arthur C. Clarke was a consultant on this first space adventure) but ultimately Dan Dare is left to face Silicon River Monsters, Green Martian Men, Magnetic Thought Chairs and of course, the Mekon! One of the most menacing sci-fi bad guys ever created, seriously.

Voyage to Venus is the first part of a two part adventure in which we are introduced to Dan and Digby and the International Space Fleet, (run from good ol' Blighty don't you know) and their bid to reach Venus in a search for alternative food sources for a starving Earth. In some truly darker moments we are taken through scenes of riots on the Earth, before Dan manages to land the first manned flight to Venus where his adventures begin. It's the introductory story, but one that sweeps across the planets with the scale of an Epic and finishes with a truly unexpected, coup de grace that leaves you in no doubt that the only boundaries to Frank Hammond's inspiring science fiction is his imagination and not some great vacuum that NASA have still been unable to bridge, almost seventy years after Dan Dare soared to the stars.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Artist Gets His Due, 10 Oct 2004
Frank Hampson's classic Dan Dare work from the Eagle comic gets the high-quality treatment that it deserves in this re-print; the first of (hopefully) a long series. These stories provided a vibrant shot of colour in the Britain of the 1950s. The beautiful draughtmanship of Hampson's art shines through in this volume. The hard work, care and attention to detail that he put into his Dan Dare stories is emphasised in the foreword, which recounts the creation of the Eagle and of Dan Dare. If the subsequent volumes are of this standard (and volume two would indicate that they will be) then Frank Hampson's creative genius has finally got the treatment it deserves.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Our stolen heritage, 7 Dec 2009
By Paul Magnussen (Campbell, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Dan Dare, Dan Dare. Can he and his faithful sidekick Digby save the Earth from invasion? Can they defeat the evil Mekon and his Treens, armed with nothing but a stiff upper lip and a good ol' British uppercut to the jaw?

Of course they can, who are you kidding?

Seriously though and all kidding aside, I was marginally too young to read the Eagle from the very beginning, coming in somewhere just before "Operation Saturn". For years, having missed the start of the series was like a toothache; and in the 1980s I even went to the British Library and tried to find the original comics. I was told they'd been stolen! The young librarian (who couldn't even have been born when they appeared) was as indignant as I was: "They're part of our heritage!" he said.

And so they are indeed. When I found that Titan Books were reissuing the whole series and got my hands on the first (this) one, I almost sobbed with joy.

Time dulls the appeal of many things: I listen now to songs I raved about as a teenager and think "Did I really like that?"

But Dan Dare remains as fresh as ever. Only now as an adult can I appreciate the extent of the intelligence and creativity, both literary and artistic, that went into the stories. Indeed, the Mekon is one of those wonderful characters whom, like Gollum, no one ever forgets.

So unless (like St Paul) you have put away all childish things, I cannot recommend this series to you too heartily: may it give you as much pleasure as it has me.

So far it consists of:

Voyage to Venus (Part 1)
Voyage to Venus (Part 2)
The Red Moon Mystery
Marooned on Mercury
Operation Saturn (Part 1)
Operation Saturn (Part 2)
Prisoners of Space
The Man from Nowhere
Rogue Planet
Reign of the Robots
The Phantom Fleet
Safari in Space
Trip to Trouble
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