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Author:	Basil Dawson
Title:	Dan Dare On Mars
Publisher:	Hulton Press
Country:	UK
Date:	1956
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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ppint. 8th Jun 2023		there was a luck of the legion novel in the first (iirc only, or first of only two), release(s) by hulton press of their hardcover eagle novels series; as i find further details of this - and any of the others, as and when yr hmbl srppnt. comes across copies; and if they come back to mind - i'll add them. all i can currently recall is there was a storm nelson novel, a jack o'lantern novel and one other - but i cannot remember what, nor of which of which ongoing eagle comic hero. i'm pretty sure there were only four or eight novels, in near-uniform, largely yellow-fronted with black typography superimposed upon a much fainter large red ''eagle'' emblem, unique cover art across the top ~33⅓% of the uniform d-j design. there were some nf titles too; but i don't remember aught about them at all, except they did not share the novels' uniform design. (edit: after a while digging: i've now traced two jack o'lantern novels, georgian england-set in the time of highwaymen and the like; yr hmbl srppnt. enjoyed his stories in the comic; and that the fourth of the first release quartet was a three j's school-set novel; but i don't remember them from eagle comic at all...) i am, however, absolutely positive that there wasn't another dan dare novel in this short series.



ppint. 11th May 2023		Review the story is both unique - neither a novelisation of, nor turned into one of the fourteen-or-so novel length dan dare cartoon/comic stories told over a year or longer in eagle comic - and it is incompatible with the canonical dan dare mars, as detailed in the second eagle comic dan dare story, ''dan dare: the red moon mystery'' (serialised in eagle comic 5/10/1951-20/6/1952, also collected as a graphic novel (dragon's dream 1979). it is set in 2002 in the dan dare future, after ''operation saturn'', which basil dawson wrote some of, under the pen-name of don riley, when frank hampson collapsed through overwork, and before ''prisoners of space'', but the novel wasn't published until dan & co. were on cryptos, towards halfway through the longest and greatest of the comic's stories, ''the man from nowhere'' and ''rogue planet'', by which time i suspect the readership had grown up with dan dare and his colleagues, and the well-developed vision of this future, sufficiently to expect a novel presenting altogether more substantial a story, with significantly greater depth of thought than this ''fair, but unambitious'' mystery adventure. (tbc: plot hook / set-up to be composed and added; but there's a bus or two to be caught soon, and some shopping to be done...) 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 28th Apr 2023		hulton press h/cvr first printing, first edition an eagle novel (a brief series originally intended to see further novels in each line within it) cover (d-j) art (unsigned, uncredited; does not look up to frank hampson's standards) b+w frontispiece (unsigned, uncredited; ditto: it's close, but perspective of dan dare's face is ''off'')) cover (d-j) price 7/6 176pp. (re-check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between yellow cloth-covered boards

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