Dan Dare Board game

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

20783

Title

Dan Dare Board game

Description

Dan Dare draughts board game. The chequered board is square and folds in half. The game comes with red and yellow wooden tokens.
The game comes with original box. The box lid illustrates the 1950s Eagle comic hero Dan Dare, in front of a green planet with blue background. The box also has red and white lettering reading 'Dan Dare Draughts.'

Artist / maker

Chad Valley

Date

1955

Size

30 x 30 cm

Type

Toy

Location

Museum of Childhood

Accession number

MC1458.94

Dan Dare first featured in a comic known as Eagle on 14th April, 1950. In every issue Dan Dare ranged across space, battling his arch foe, the power-mad Mekon. The creation of Frank Hampson an English Artist, Dan Dare was the lead feature. Within days of being launched, the comic, totalling twenty pages, eight of which were in full colour, was selling nearly a million copies a week. The comic industry had never seen success like it before in the UK. The Dan Dare comic was later dramatised on Radio Luxembourg.

(c)Dan Dare Corporation Ltd

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