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I got into the Dan Dare wagon quite recently due to the repeated positive comments here and I am happy I did. Stellar (!) artwork and obligatory hooks every 2 page. I've got 2 Titan books editions (Trip To Trouble and Safari in Space) which faithfully reproduce the art and include the encroaching Eagle front piece but also the much older Dragon's Dream collections (the first 2 out of 3) which I very much like but which opted for the removal of the Eagle logo and consequently rebuilt the pages xeroxing some panels to enlarge them and fit a whole page. Quite well done in the first volume (Man From Nowhere) and indeed a little butchered in the 2nd (Rogue Planet). Recommended anyway.•• I picked up the Dragon's Dream editions when there was nothing else (during the period when my own collection of front pages from EAGLE seemed to have diappeared), but I much prefer the recent publications, EAGLE masthead notwithstanding. I've been wondering how much longer those volumes will continue to come out. The work following "Nimbus", mostly by Don Harley and Bruce Cornwell, is considered "inferior" by true Dare aficionados, apparently, tho I love it. (Nostalgia is a powerful drug.) I've even learned to appreciate the work of Keith Watson, who was the artist on DARE around the time I stopped reading, and who's work did not appeal to me back then. One of the problems facing DARE collections is that the strip fell on hard times in the Sixties, losing its place on the front page, being printed in black and white instead of that magnificent color, etc, etc. Plus the formats kept changing, making it hard to put pages together.
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