Appearing in "Dan Dare"[]
Featured characters:
Supporting characters:
Villains:
- Aliens
Other characters:
- Tharg (introduces story)
- Audar
Location:
- The Boron star system
Items:
- Assault suits
Vehicles:
- Dan Dare's Space Fortress
- A starcarrier fifty times larger than Dan Dare's Space Fortress
Synopsis for "Dan Dare"[]
A small group of plucky pilots blow up a massive space weapon capable of destroying entire planets. The story has a superficial resemblance to the first Star Wars movie, except that the bad guys are mysterious aliens rather than an evil empire.
Appearing in "Invasion!"[]
Featured characters:
Supporting characters:
Villains:
Other characters:
- A resistance fighter who swims ten miles to give Savage vital information
Location:
- Off the coast of Scotland
Items:
- Silk's sniper rifle
Vehicles:
- Volgan skyships
- A fishing trawler called Revenge
Synopsis for "Invasion!"[]
Savage stops the Volgans discovering the secret of nuclear fusion.
Appearing in "Rick Random and the Time Travellers"[]
Featured characters:
Supporting characters:
- Dr Marius Fisher, chairman of the Interplanetary Board
Villains:
- None
Other characters:
- Dr Laus Brunoburhg, an important and famous scientist
- Jenny Brunoburhg, his daughter
- El Mamud, a famous Arabian physicist
- Dr Erika Svensen, a beautiful Norwegian physicist
- Dr Gerda Svensen, her identical twin
- Mordoc, Controller of Future Exploration
- Kerna and Hondor, members of the Council of Seven
- Lorata, the foremost authority on the science of time travel
- Martin Hart, a lab assistant
- John the Wheelwright
- Mathilda, John's fiancée
Locations:
- The year 2036
- More than a million years in the future
- A potato field in the 18th century
- The Battle of Hastings
- Nero's Rome (on fire)
- Government City, 31st century
- South-East England, 1099
Items:
- Time machine
- Micro-foto-fax
Vehicles:
- Rick Random's helicar
- Sky-ball
Synopsis for "Rick Random and the Time Travellers"[]
The eponymous detective is called to assist when a woman accidentally activates a time machine and makes her father's lab assistant disappear. He ends up making a trip to the future, which is bedevilled by strange catastrophes: "The island of Cyprus literally exploded and disappeared with a death toll of 750,000."
Appearing in "U.F.O. Agent"[]
Featured characters:
- Major Grant of Special Security Service
- 'Boff' Bailey of Scientific Intelligence
Supporting characters:
- Aliens from Satellite Zeta
Villains:
- General Alusha
Other characters:
- President Ogano
Locations:
- Bracken House
- A volcanic island in the Pacific
Items:
- 'Force stick'
Vehicles:
- Car
- Flying saucer
Synopsis for "U.F.O. Agent"[]
Aliens make two men into their troubleshooters defeating evil on Earth.
Appearing in "Judge Dredd: Ryan's Revenge"[]
Artist
Featured characters:
Supporting characters:
Villains:
- Ryan the organ-legger
- Mayor Amalfi
Other characters:
Location:
Items:
- Four-shot short range anti-personnel pistol
Vehicles:
- Various flying cars in the background
- A lorry full of synthi-fruit
Synopsis for "Judge Dredd: Ryan's Revenge"[]
An organ-legger breaks out of his underwater prison and vows revenge on the mayor of Mega-City One, to whom he sold bones to fertilise his rooftop garden.
Appearing in "The Recruiting Agency"[]
Artist:
- Canos
Featured characters:
- Steve Pullen, engineering apprentice
Supporting characters:
- Young woman who works in a recruiting agency
Villains:
- None
Other characters:
- Man in a bowler hat
- Beautiful blonde woman
Locations:
- The Yorkshire town of Binthley
- Gatwick airport
Items:
- Letter
Vehicles:
- Train
- Jumbo jet
Synopsis for "The Recruiting Agency"[]
A young man is offered the chance of a fresh start on a beautiful Pacific island.
Appearing in "Survivor"[]
Featured characters:
- Geoff Strange, NASA's top astronaut
Supporting characters:
- Professor Jackson, the world's leading authority on the science of the brain
Other characters:
- Vessel-Commander Lu-Jik
Locations:
- Earth
- Beyond the orbit of Pluto
Items:
- Various pieces of futuristic technology
Vehicles:
- Alien spaceship
- NASA space shuttle
Synopsis for "Survivor"[]
Earth's sun explodes and aliens meet the only survivor.
Appearing in "Dan Dare"[]
Artist:
Featured characters:
Supporting characters:
Villains:
- The Mekon
Other characters:
- Life-Science Professor Lars Bergman
Locations:
- Earth
- Space
Items:
- Cryogenic unit
Vehicles:
- The Anastasia, Dan Dare's personal wonder ship
Synopsis for "Dan Dare"[]
The story of how the Dan Dare of the Eagle became the Dan Dare of 2000 AD.
Notes[]
Also contains various pages imagining what life in the future will be like (entitled 'Tomorrow Today!'), a quiz, a short article about the possibility of extraterrestrial life, a Dan Dare text story, a page about gravity, a profile of the pilot Hank Chouteau, aeroplane and space station concepts, a page about UFOs and an article on the John F. Kennedy Space Centre.
Trivia[]
Published by Fleetway in 1978 as a 2000 AD spin-off.
Recommended reading[]
The next annual in the series.
Links and references[]
Why not visit the 2000 AD website?