Dan Dare

Dan Dare was a character who fought the Mekon in the British children's comic Eagle. (PROSE: Time and Relative)

When Jason talked about how fictional characters were immortal, the Seventh Doctor completed his argument by noting that otherwise Dan Dare would be on his deathbed. (PROSE: Conundrum)

In 1977, Dame Emily Shaw compared the interior of the Doctor to something out of Dan Dare. (AUDIO: The Cloisters of Terror)

In October 1987, Niles Bunbury commented that Skaro looked like "something from a Dan Dare annual". (AUDIO: We Are The Daleks)

Behind the scenes

 * 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.
 * Andrew Skilleter named Who Dares Publishing by combining the names Doctor Who and Dan Dare with an added "s". (REF: Blacklight)
 * The Eleventh Doctor can be seen wearing Dan's red space-suit in the Titan comics story The One.
 * Dare was played by Noel Johnson on Radio Luxembourg.