Bellamy, Frank - Dan Dare: Terra Nova, Volume 10, Number 39, page 2 (Nov 14, 1959)

It looks great! Glad you have the love of art to get the necessary work done to preserve it for the future. Dan Dare would thank you, if he were not a fictional character.

Wow!  Considering the fact that I am only two months older than this page, I wish I looked half this good.  Puts a big smile on my face to see art relics like this not only survive, but absolutely shine!  Congrats my friend.

You might look as good if you were professionally conserved.

Attractive bright colors contrast so finely showing the fire oranges, yellows, and reds against the cool greys and blue.   Expertly applied stipple work layer to add shading and hyper realism.   

Mind-blowing colors! What a beast!

Such a beautiful page!

I remember first seeing Dan Dare pages and thinking there's nothing else like them. This page is a prime example!

I love all the little things - the circular panel, the slanted panel, the wing across the gutter - not to mention the whole.  Congratulations, Chris!

Great example!

Explosive Late 50's Sci-Fi!! Knock-Out Color!!

Beautiful piece. Love the colors and the theme. Congrats!

Magnificent!

Very cool!  There are a lot of diffirent elements to like that are more as a whole than the sum of those parts. The colors are oustanding as the action/dynamics of the page.  I really lke the layouts with the angled panels, the circular panel, the breaking of the panel and then the normal tier to slow down after the cadence.  I wonder if Bellamy and others were influenced by the layouts in Fiction House comics from this side of the pond.  Although content is different, the layouts look like out of a FH book.  That exposion is truly spectacular.  As a fellow art collector, I thank you for conserving this art.  Not enough of us do that as often as we should.  We are more consumed with accumulation and the price of new art vs. conservation makes new art a very easy choice most of the time but not necessarily the right choice.  

Holy smokes! That is a true knockout.

Look at those Fricken Colors!!  Bellamy was so influential on an entire generation (or two) of British artists and this page is a great example of why. It's pure 110 octane imagination jet fuel. 

I absolutely love that bottom left panel. Thanks for posting this beauty!

Stellar example!  Glue stain removal is a great idea, but those caption boxes always went unlettered (the lettering was incorpoarted during the printing process, mechanically - as opposed the hand-drawn lettering of the speech balloons).  Looks as though you might have incorporated new (recreated) lettering on those caption boxes?  Personally, I'd have shied-away from the idea.

Hey Terry! As you know, I debated heavily on what to do with the word balloons as part of the preservation/conservation process (for those interetested, the mechanical word balloons used during the printing process that Terry references were attacehd to the back of the piece). Ultimately, I decided to have my paper conversation/preservation group use the mechanicals and color-matched reproductions of the caption boxes to create new, archivally placed (i.e., easily reversed/removed) word ballons such that its next owner can decide between what I chose to do and what the piece originally looked like when it came to me. A not inexpensive decision...but a satisfying one from a flexibility standpoint. Appreciate the comment - forgot to explain what I did on this front in my write-up on the piece!

Ah, right, they're removable - that's great!

Oh, and as an afterthought, Al Williamson swiped that bottom tier middle panel for one of his 1960s Flash Gordon comic-books.  Come to think of it, Al would often swipe from Hampson and Bellamy artwork!

Well, if you are gonna swipe, might as well swipe from the best!

I am digging your Dan Dare pages. They all have their charms, but this one is a spectacular cut above the others.

This is so killer!  All I can say is . . . Wow!

Jawdroppingly cool! I love everything about this page--The hurtling spaceship, the massive explosion, everything! This is my kind of stuff!