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Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories that is the Venus and Red Moon stories and a complete storyline for Operation Saturn. Dare appeared in the Eagle comic story Dan Dare Pilot of the Future in 1950 dramatised seven times a week on Radio Luxembourg.The stories were set in the late 1990s but the dialogue and manner of the characters is reminiscent of British war films of the 1950s.