Spaceship Away is a comic magazine largely based on the classic British hero Dan Dare, featuring new full colour stories written and drawn in the style of series creator Frank Hampson. The magazine was created by Rod Barzilay as an attempt to revive the original Dan Dare of the 1950s and early 1960s. It was born after Rod's efforts to arrange publication of the story he had written and persuaded original Dan Dare artists Keith Watson and Don Harley to draw, "The Phoenix Mission," ran up against commercial disinterest. Rod launched Spaceship Away in 2003 as a vehicle for his story, and other artists and writers with an interest in Dan Dare rapidly came on board.