DAN DARE: FIRST CONTACT

An all-new reimagining of the classic British sci-fi adventure strip Dan Dare written by bestselling author and screenwriter Alex de Campi (Rogue Trooper: Ghost Patrol and Duncan Jones’ Madi: Once Upon A Time in the Future) and Marc Laming (James Bond, Eden, Endeavour).

A dying planet, a desperate mission—and a first contact that may spell the end of human life as we know it. 

After a malevolent “dark comet” swings too close to Earth to be coincidental, British Space Fleet captain Dan Dare, young inventor Alfred Digby, and xenobiologist Professor Jocelyn Peabody acquire from it both indisputable proof of alien life, and the technology to journey to the nearest habitable planet. And just in time—while the three adventurers ensured Earth escaped destruction by the dark comet, the planet still struggled under too many people, not enough food, and worsening ecological collapse.

Fleeing forces on Earth that want to seize and misuse the new faster-than-light technology they discovered, Dan, Digby and Peabody throw together an exploration mission to the nearest habitable planet.

When they reach the planet, they find what appears to be peaceful, advanced, and welcoming alien culture. But something feels off to Dan… and he discovers that rather than viewing humans as equals to trade with, the alien leader considers Earth ripe for conquest—and the human race as expendable! Now Dan and his two companions are all that stands between an alien invasion fleet… and an unknowing, unprepared Planet Earth!