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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 (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 28,815 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
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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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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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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sheer Genius, 31 Dec 2004
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If you are a fan of great comics or great art then these are mandatory to buy.
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