Dan Dare Annual

Dan Dare annuals have been published intermittently over the years. The first two, subtitled Dan Dare's Spacebook and Dan Dare's Space Annual, were published by original Eagle publishers Hulton Press and Longacre in 1953 and 1963 respectively, and featured new adventures of the original Dan Dare. Fleetway published their first Dan Dare annual, featuring re-edited reprints from Eagle, in 1974, while two further Fleetway annuals dated 1979 and 1980 (published in '78 and '79, respectively) were effectively spin-offs from 2000AD and featured the updated version of Dan from that title, as well as (for some reason) strips featuring Judge Dredd (who would later be awarded his own long running Judge Dredd Annual). The 1987 annual was a spin-off from the revived Eagle and featured the new Dan Dare, grandson of the original, while the 1991 annual had a retro feel, and featured the new Eagle's version of the original Dare.