I can't say much about the original, but don't forget the ill-fated 1980s revival of the Eagle. My dad didn't mind me reading it as much as he minded me reading Tiger or the other boys comic strips beause he'd always read the original. Dan Dare didn't really seem to have been updated all that much, but the rest of the comic was (if I can remember that far) pretty dark what with Doom Lord and the strip with a name I can't remember about a Soviet invasion of Britain, but looking back, the early 80s seem to have been a pretty pesimistic time.
Then I discovered beer and indie music and my fate as an archaeologist was sealed.
Good to see history repeating again,
John
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From: Discussion List for Contemporary and Historical Archaeology on behalf of paul courtney
Sent: Sat 31/05/2008 02:31
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Dan Dare and hi-tech Britain
Trouble was we all grew up (actually I read it in the early 60s) and
read Jack Kerouac and became hippy archaeologists.
zoharesque wrote:
> Classic comic hero Dan Dare fired the imagination of young Britons in the 1950s and heralded the birth of hi-tech Britain, an exhibition at the London Science Museum reveals.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7376571.stm
>
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