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By Frank Hampson (Titan Books)
ISBN 1-84023-841-0
Earth is starving! The only hope is for the expeditionary force on Venus to find food! But Dan Dare and his team have not been heard from in weeks!
Colonel Dare has his own problems. Venus is inhabited by two advanced races trapped in a Cold War for that has lasted for millennia, but it turned pretty hot once the Earthmen got involved. As the Therons battle the ruthless Treens, the malevolent Mekon launches an invasion of our planet, too!
Breakneck pace, truly astonishing high concepts leavened with wholesome music hall larks and some of the most beautiful and powerful art ever to grace a comic page makes the concluding volume of Frank Hampson’s first Dan Dare adventure as much a magical experience now as it was in 1951. These stories captured and still hold the minds of a generation, and you’d be crazy not to see why for yourselves.
This volume also includes a fascinating and lavishly illustrated interview with the creator and a nominal ‘prequel’ in the form of a strip (from an annual) set on Mars eight years before that fateful trip to Venus.
This Titan Books series is glorious tribute to the unforgettable heroes of a forgotten future. They deserve and demand your attention. It makes one proud to be an Earthling.
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