Dan Dare, the Architects Comic?

A Dan Dare cartoon, taken from the new Science Museum exhibition.


Dan Dare was no ordinary Manchester lad. Born there in 1967, he studied at Cambridge and Harvard before joining Space Fleet and leading the first manned mission to Venus in 1996. It was there he first set eyes on Mekonta, the futuristic city where the Mekon, a Venusian Hitler type with a giant head, ruled over the unfeeling, raygun-happy Treens.

Dan Dare and the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
is at the Science Museum, London SW7,
until October 25. Details: sciencemuseum.org.uk