“In the very first Dan Dare adventure, which began to be serialised weekly in the Christian boy’s comic Eagle in 1950, we were introduced to the ‘ … Inter Planet Space Fleet some years in the future.’ It’s an odd organisation, in that it’s clearly meant to be Earth’s ‘Space Fleet,’ but it’s clearly really just the Royal Air Force in orbit and beyond. The Fleet’s HQ is in England, the Fleet’s pilots are predominantly English. It’s a strip proud of and haunted by England’s finest hour.” Colin Smith looks at Frank Hampton’s comic, Dan Dare in moving several posts.