Dan Dare is a fictional character who had his own strip in Fawcett Comics' Whiz Comics. A skilled detective and crime fighter, Dare's adventures appeared in Whiz Comics during the title's earliest years. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Whiz Comics #2, the first appearance of Captain Marvel, the companys most popular character. ... Whiz Comics was a monthly ongoing comic book anthology series, which was published by Fawcett Comics from February 1940 to June 1952. ...
DanDare (full name Colonel Daniel McGregor Dare) was chief pilot of the Interplanet Space Fleet, stated as having been born in Manchester, England in the year 1967.
The Mekon, super-intelligent ruler of the Treens, was DanDare's arch-enemy.
In 1989, DanDare was re-launched in a deliberate return to the original character, with the first story drawn by Keith Watson and later ones by a variety of other artists.