One is known as the 'Dan Dare' or 'Mickey Mouse' cap which is a skull cap with a narrow rim around the top for bachelors; the other was known as the tricorn or upside-down iron, which was basically a mortarboard but with a triangle instead of a square for the top board for masters.
He also paints landscapes and was the first artist to work on the new Dan Dare in 1982.
Harold Johns (artist), cartoonist, assistant to Frank Hampson on Dan Dare (British science fiction comic hero) and largely drew the story Marooned on Mercury
In 1951, he served at the “Special Investigator” for the Eagle, a publication which involved the fictional character Dan Dare, a spaceman, and which aimed to both entertain children and teach good morals.
Despite having no interest in science fiction, he was under orders from management to have a space hero to compete with Dan Dare, and commissioned "Captain Condor" from writer Frank S. Pepper.
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They subsequently worked on the Dan Dare, Max Steel, and Robotech 3000 animated television series, but this was not enough to prevent them going out of business in 2000.
Express Weekly (later TV Express Weekly) was a rival to "The Eagle" of Dan Dare fame.