Noh, Daren nimeämisestä kopsaan Paul Gravettin face-päivityksestä pätkän, eikä tämä ihmetytä koskapa Eagle-lehden takana oli pappisväkeä:
'DAN DARE' WAS NAMED AFTER 1873 HYMN, 'DARE TO BE DANIEL'
Do you know how British space hero Dan Dare got his name? For their 18th article celebrating 'Dan Dare' on Fumettomania Factory - APS, Daniele Tomasi (another Dan'!) has shared a 2018 report by Stephen Whittle and Richard Moss about 'The World's Best Dan Dare Collection', housed previously at the Botanic Garden Museum in Churchtown, near Southport:
'At first [Marcus] Morris wanted Dan Dare to be a Christian antidote to what he saw as the pernicious effect of the shock-horror of the American comics that were coming over from the US at the time, so his lead character was going to be called 'Lex Christian'. This wasn’t really going to work so he and Frank Hampson came up with the idea of 'Chaplain Dan Dare' and the earlier incarnation of Dan Dare had a dog collar and a clerical looking cape. But when they started touting the idea around the publishing houses in London people found the religious message to be too strong so the character became 'Dan Dare', named after a hymn called ‘Dare to be a Daniel’, which was Frank Hampson’s mother’s favourite hymn.' Here are the full lyrics:
https://www.hymnallibrary.org/hymns/dare-to-be-daniel/Full article rich with info and images, including this Dan Dare Bust, photo Richard Moss, here:
https://www.fumettomaniafactory.net/special-project-dan…/
Timo