Dan Dare is a science fiction comic series created by Frank Hampson and originally published in Eagle, beginning in its first issue, released on 14 April1950. The series has since appeared in various other magazines, such as 2000 AD and a Virgin Comics series, as well as being adapted into radio plays and television series, among others.
Eric Eden assisted on art for the original Frank Hampson strips and later took over writing them in 1959. Frank Bellamy was an artist on the strips at that time. Dave Gibbons was an artist on the strip for 2000 AD. Pat Mills and John Wagner wrote the strip for the relaunched Eagle. Grant Morrison wrote a Dan Dare strip for Fleetway Publications.
Lex Christian from the novel The Dying Days takes his name from the chaplain character that evolved into Dan Dare during development of the strip.
In 2016, Big Finish Productions began releasing a series of Dan Dare audio plays. Despite the one-time crossover between Dan Dare and the Doctor Who universe, they were not marketed by Big Finish as in any way connected with their plentiful library of Doctor Who audio dramas.
