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Welcome to Dan-Dare.org This website (together with its "sister" site Dan-Dare.net) is intended to provide you with an introduction to Dan Dare in an interactive, and hopefully enjoyable, manner. It's completely free and there are loads of things to see and do, including a huge collection of Dan Dare images, animated GIFs and mobile phone graphics to view, 10 interactive Dan Dare games and puzzles to play, more than 40 other free online arcade games and puzzles to play (not Dan Dare themed, but I thought you might like them anyway), plus some interesting web links to follow. There is also some extra "fun stuff" to find in this site, including one hidden game... The "Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future" science-fiction strip-cartoon series was created by the genius that was Frank Hampson, and it first appeared in issue number one of the weekly British boys' magazine "Eagle" on April 14, 1950. The series proved to be enormously popular and successful, in 1950's Britain at least rivalling the likes of Star Wars and Harry Potter in the modern era, and it ran every week until the Eagle's initial run came to an end in 1969. This enormous popularity was due in the most part to the groundbreaking full-colour animation-style illustrations produced by Frank Hampson and his team of artists, the likes of which had never been seen in a weekly publication in Britain before (or for that matter since). No doubt the entertaining and imaginative storylines, a consistent and meticulously laid out story universe, plus a memorable cast of characters, such as Dan's loyal companion Digby and evil arch-nemesis The Mekon, contributed to this popularity too. Dan Dare has appeared in many different forms since the original 1950's and 60's era, most notably in the "2000AD" comic in the late 1970's, in a new version of the "Eagle" in the 1980's and 90's, and in a computer-animated (CGI cartoon) TV series in 2002. Currently, having started in 2003, Dan Dare is appearing in new comic-strips in the excellent thrice-yearly magazine "Spaceship Away", and as of November 2007 Virgin Comics (with Sir Richard Branson's backing) are producing an all-new Dan Dare comic every month, so the legend lives on... (See this site's extensive Picture Galleries and Artwork Showcases for images of all the different versions of Dan Dare.) Now, why not explore the rest of this website? You might want to use the Dan-Dare.org Site Map to help you navigate around, as there are over 230 pages to view. If
you want to find something specific, you can use [ Just for fun, you should hopefully see that your mouse-pointer/cursor has been changed to Dan Dare's experimental faster-than-light spaceship "Tempus Frangit" (from the 1960's era of the series) on this page, with The Mekon flying around bombing it!! (Larger images of both are shown below.) You can't shoot back unfortunately, although you can if you play the Dan Dare "Abalis Game" further down this page... You can turn off The Mekon using the switch function at the very top of this page if you prefer. Once you leave this page, your cursor will return to normal and The Mekon will disappear. The JavaScript and GIFs used to make The Mekon fly around this page can be downloaded for use in your own webspace by clicking on this link: Dan Dare Animated GIFs Page 4. The "Tempus Frangit" cursor, together with other Dan Dare cursors and icons, can be downloaded for use on your Windows system from Dan-Dare.org's "sister" site: Dan-Dare.net. You will also find a complete and illustrated history of Dan Dare at Dan-Dare.net. Additionally, there is a complete listing of the weekly adventures of Dan Dare and The Mekon that appeared in the 1950's and 60's "Eagle", plus details of all the other weekly stories they starred in, at Dan-Dare.org's second "sister" site: DanDare.org.uk. ]
Some Dan Dare images, graphics and free online "fun stuff"... Click on the image below to go to my Dan Dare "Gallery" pages - there are 12 pages in total, each containing very high-resolution images (including a complete scan of a one-off black-and-white Dan Dare story written and illustrated by Frank Hampson that appeared in the October 1952 edition of the ABC Film Review Magazine):
View my Original Artwork Showcase and The Dan Dare Studios Presentation pages.
Click on the image below to go to my Dan Dare "Mobile Phone / WAPsite Graphics" page:
Click on this link to view the system requirements for running all the interactive "fun stuff" in this site: Technical Notes
Click on the image below to go to my Dan Dare "Abalis Game" page (Java Applet powered):
Click on the images below to go to my Dan Dare "Jigsaw" pages (Java Applet powered) - much larger versions of the images used for the second and third jigsaws can be seen in Gallery 4 and Gallery 5 respectively:
Click on the images below to go to my Dan Dare "Puzzle" pages (Java Applet powered) - much larger versions of the images used for the first two puzzles can be seen in Gallery 9 and at http://www.harddisk.fsnet.co.uk/dare.html respectively:
Click on the image below to go to my Dan Dare "Sliding Puzzle" pages (Java Applet powered) - there are 3 different versions to play:
Some more free online fun and games... Help Comic Relief - play the "Red Lead" game, and then please make a donation to this truly worthy cause!
Click on the images below to play the corresponding Flash games:
Click on the images below to start the corresponding Java Applet games and puzzles:
Click on the image below to play a JavaScript version of the classic game "Breakout":
(There are more games and puzzles at Dan-Dare.org's "sister" site, Dan-Dare.net, including lots more Flash and Java free online arcade games for you to enjoy...)
Just in case you haven't seen them yet, here are 20 pages related to many of the above games and puzzles:
If
you want to find something specific, you can use Some interesting web links... If you like this site, you might also like to visit Dan-Dare.org's "sister" site at Dan-Dare.net for a complete and illustrated history of Dan Dare, even more interactive games, puzzles and toys, plus images, icons, cursors, screen savers, wallpaper, music, movies and a comprehensive set of web links, all relating to Dan Dare...
For an overview that is primarily focussed on Dan Dare's evil arch-nemesis The Mekon (including a complete listing of the weekly adventures of Dan Dare and The Mekon that appeared in the 1950's and 60's "Eagle", plus details of all the other weekly stories they starred in) why not visit Dan-Dare.org's second "sister" site:
Click on this link to view my Yahoo! GeoCities page, which was partly the inspiration for Dan-Dare.org, Dan-Dare.net and DanDare.org.uk, and which also includes three more games for you to play: Peter Inns's Home Page
See some more interesting web links >>
(Last updated: May 9, 2008 at 2.00pm.)
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P.S.
Here is part of the extra "fun stuff" to enjoy (but there
is still one hidden game to find):
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![Dan Dare's evil arch-nemesis The Mekon
[Note: Click here to reveal the hidden game]](Dan%20JPEGs/The%20Mekon.jpg)
