C time and space machine TARDIS, is first seen with his ushing’s dotty Dr Who, Earthly inventor of the nose buried in the 20 March 1965 edition of the Eagle comic, with the adventures of square-jawed space explorer Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future on the front page. But Who – for Who’s his surname – isn’t reading about Dare’s journey to Neptune’s moon, rather the story in the centre spread: the saga of Roman centurion Heros the Spartan, as depicted by Radio Times artist Frank Bellamy, responsible for many 1970s Doctor Who listings. It’s a fair bet, though, that Who’s been keeping up with all of Dare’s exploits, beginning with his first published adventure – in which Dare voyaged to Venus, only to discover that, following between the blond-haired, peace-loving farmer Therons “a century of fierce battles”, the planet had become divided and the emotionless Treens, who inhabited the spawling mechanised city of Mekonta…