Summer sizzles with new Spaceship Away, available now

By John Freeman on June 21, 2025 • ( 1 )

The latest issue of Spaceship Away, Part 66, is available now, featuring more “Dan Dare” adventure, and includes a feature on “Adam Eterno” the long-running strip centred on the near indestructible time traveller, first published in Thunder, moving to Lion with the two adventure weeklies merger in 1971.

“Adam Eterno“, created by Jack Le Grand and Tom Tully, was one of seven Thunder strips that survived the merger Lion and Thunder, with only four continuing from Lion. The strip would continue until October 1976, when Valiant was folded into Battle and the regular strip ended, but the character has been revived by Rebellion, who now own him, and some of his early adventures were collected in Adam Eterno – A Hero of All Time, published in 2021.

This issue also continues “Jeff Hawke” and “Kalgan the Golden“, plus the usual “Space Review” and Phil Harbottle‘s guide to science fiction of yesteryear.

• Subscribe to Spaceship Away or order back issues at spaceshipaway.org

• Spaceship Away 66 is also available from eBay

Here’s a taster of the latest issue of this long-running EAGLE and Dan Dare-inspired zine…

Spaceship Away, Part 66 - British SF of the 1950s

• Subscribe to Spaceship Away or order back issues at spaceshipaway.org

• Spaceship Away 66 is also available from eBay

• Jeff Hawke Fan Club: jeffhawke.com

• Episodes from Jeff Hawke – “Pass the Parcel” feature here on ComicArtFans and here on Heritage Auctions

• Subscribe to Phil Harbottle’s 1950s British Science Fiction YouTube Channel

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as 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.