Dan Dare's Space Annual 1963 is a mixture of stories in text, picture-strip stories
and other miscellaneous articles and features. America and Russia are entring the Space Race and
so feaures on astronauts from both countries are included. The main Dan Dare stories are full
colour picture-strip adventures just as they had been in the Eagle annuals.
Original Price : 8s 6d (42½p)
Published by : Longacre Press Limited in 1962
Dimensions : 19.5cm x 27cm with 110 pages.
Selected highlights:
- The Story of Flight - learn about man's struggle to conquer flight.
- Spacefleet Uniforms - all the details you need to make your own copies.
- Spacefleet Bomber - looking like a cross between the Space Shuttle and Concorde.
- Hear about Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn.
| CONTENTS | |
|---|---|
| DAN DARE STORIES | page |
| The Fuel Pirates | 7 |
| Destruction Wavelength | 46 |
| The Tenth Planet | 65 |
| Rescue! | 88 |
| STRIPS | |
| Dan Dare in The Planulid | 33 |
| Galileo - The Star Gazer | 61 |
| Dan Dare in The Planet of Shadows | 73 |
| Yuri Gagarin - Man Into Space | 94 |
| ARTICLES AND FEATURES | |
| Satellites in Orbit | Front Endpapers |
| Project Nova | 12 |
| An American in Orbit | 17 |
| The Story of Flight | 25 |
| So You Want to be an Astronaut? | 41 |
| Off to the Moon! | 52 |
| Spanning the Heavens | 69 |
| Satellites at Work | 81 |
| Exploring the Planets | 101 |
| Make Your Own Telescope | 109 |
| DAN DARE FEATURES | |
| Data Sheets | 22 |
| Rocket Model | 50 |
| Spacefleet Equipment | 57 |
| Inter-Planetary Bus | 86 |
| Rocket Launching Ramp | 87 |
| Space Satellite | 92 |
| Spacefleet Bomber | 93 |
| Trial Rocket Area | 98 |
| Transport at Sea | 100 |
| Spacefleet Uniforms | Back Endpapers |