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Classic Dan Dare: Voyage to Venus Part 1: Voyage to Venus: Part 1 (Classic Dan Dare) | 
 enlarge | Author: Frank Hampson
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £14.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 22807
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 96
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 11.5 x 8.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 1840236442
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5941
EAN: 9781840236446
ASIN: 1840236442
Publication Date: April 23, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: In stock and normally despatched within 2 to 3 working days. New hardback. Some slight shelf wear to dj but content fine and unread.
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THE British comic that soared... October 10, 2005
Mr. D. J. Martin (London, England)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
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.
Sheer Genius December 31, 2004
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you are a fan of great comics or great art then these are mandatory to buy.
A Classic Artist Gets His Due October 10, 2004
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
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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