Spaceship Away #14 counting down

By John Freeman on February 23, 2008

Spaceship Away, the glossy magazine that is home to new Dan Dare adventures as well as reprints of classic sci-fi strip Journey Into Space and Sydney Jordan’s new Hal Starr strip, is nearly out again.

Issue 14 (cover seen left, artwork by Martin Baines) promise to include the following…
The Green Nemesis story continues, Murder on Mars concluding, Jet Morgan’s problems escalate in Planet of Fear, Sid Clark’s latest model is of a Phant war-machine, Andrew Darlington writes about Dan Dare lives after the original folded and Hal Starr reached the penultimate episode.

And there will be a full colour centrespread by British illustation legend Ian Kennedy. His first work on Dan Dare for many years.

This and much more will be squeezed into 44 full colour pages of A4 loveliness for you to enjoy.

The issue is at the printers currently but will be available at the end of February.

The website with all the details of how to subscribe is avilable here
http://spaceshipaway.org.uk/

John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.

He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.