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496:) for a ten-week run, with a one-off return on 14 November 1964. Another small-scale comeback came in 1965, when the Watson-drawn serials "The Hole in Outer Space" and "Captain Condor and the Forbidden Planet" were reprinted across five months, with a second shorter reprint run consisting of Lewis' "Captain Condor and the Push-Button Planet" running from 1968 to 1969. Alongside the first reprint run, the Campion-drawn "Captain Condor and the Planet of Destruction" was modified and reprinted as the adventures of a 'new' character called 576: 488:(1961 to 1963) would be hired to work on "Captain Condor". Pepper would later identify the Watson-drawn "Captain Condor and the War in Space" as his favourite work on the character, modelling much of the story on the events of World War II; he would later recall "We had Quisling invasion techniques, plus the fall of Singapore and Pearl Harbour, plus a resistance movement and the culmination in a sort of D-Day". 618:. With the aid of fellow prisoner Pete he is able to escape and begin raising a rebel force against the Dictator. The growing rebel army was able to escape the Dictator's huge military and establish a base on Zor, an uncharted moon. Under Condor's command, the rebels prepared to strike back against the Dictator while avoiding discovery by enemy spies. 31: 491:
However, after Lewis' tenure the strip struggled to find a suitable artist – Spaniard Alfredo Sanchis Cortes was among those tried – and ended abruptly after 4 April 1964. The following month "Captain Condor" returned as a series of self-contained text stories, still written by Pepper (who was by now
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The initial cycle of stories ran through to March 1955, featuring Captain Condor as an unjustly imprisoned hero leading a resistance against the Dictator of the Planets, later aided by sidekick Pete. Following the latter's defeat, the serial was reconfigured to a format closer to Dan Dare, with
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in 1992, Andrew Darlington considered much of the early work on the character uninspired but suggested the character may have made a more lasting impression had either of Watson or Lewis remained on the series longer than they did. The same year Lew Stringer wrote a brief history of Fleetway's
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Captain Condor as a dashing commander in the heroic Space Patrol, with Pete replaced by Quartermaster Burke. A further shake-up came on 27 July 1957, when (midway through serial "Captain Condor and the SOS from the Stars") the feature was transferred to the black-and-white interiors, with
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serials of the 1930s, and must have looked antiquated even to the readers of the 1950s". Graham Kibble-White was similarly unmoved by the early adventures of Captain Condor, but echoed Darlington by stating the arrival of Keith Watson gave the character "a new lease of life".
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to devise such a character; Pepper created Captain Condor to headline the new comic. As a sign of gratitude from the publisher, Pepper was allowed to retain publishing rights to Captain, who would appear on the front cover of
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Reviewing the Hibernia collection for Slings & Arrows, Frank Plowright felt the stories had "period charm" and praised Lewis' art, while being pleasantly surprised by the quality of Pepper's plotting.
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taking over the front cover. Forbes also left the strip, being replaced by Neville Wilson. The new artist redesigned the character, while Space Cadets Mike and Jason joined the strip in place of Burke.
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Generally reception to both the character and adventures of Captain Condor has been mixed, typically viewing it as a derivative version of Dan Dare. Writing for Australian fanzine
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Along with the rest of the Amalgamated Press/Fleetway/IPC characters created before 1 January 1970, the rights to Captain Condor were retained by IPC until being sold to
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Condor started out – in Pepper's words – as "a non-character" but gradually developed a following of his own, though never matching Dare's fame and popularity. As
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and use detailed models and photographs in his work, which was printed on cheap newsprint paper in four colours rather than the high-quality
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editor Bernard Smith searched for an artist; with the launch looming he recruited Ron Forbes.
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in 1956, something that earned Pepper a modest amount. Other merchandise included a set of
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and Dare, but were a commercial success regardless. Pepper, writer of the long-running
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s first annual, and in 1980 a new text story – written by Pepper – published in the
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In the year 3000, Inter-Planet Space-Lines pilot Captain Condor is banished to the
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respectively led to a reorganisation of the strips and their creative teams, with
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through cheap production values, Forbes was unable to follow the example of
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Meanwhile heavily edited versions two serials were issued in #6 and #8 of
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Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the
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character who has appeared in eponymous strips published by
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Index


Lion Annual
First appearance
Lion
1952
Frank S. Pepper
Earth
Publisher
Amalgamated Press
Fleetway Publications
Lion
comics anthology
Lion
Science fiction
1952
1966
Frank S. Pepper
Geoff Campion
Reg Bunn
Keith Watson
Brian Lewis
British comic
Amalgamated Press
Fleetway Publications
Lion
Frank S. Pepper
Amalgamated Press
Eagle
Lion
Dan Dare

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