Last Three of Venus
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The Last Three of Venus are fictional aliens, adversaries of the British
comic book
hero Dan Dare
, appearing in the Eagle
comic strip
Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future: they are allies of Dan Dare's arch-enemy The Mekon
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The Last Three are creators of the elektrobots that the Mekon uses to conquer the Earth in Reign of the Robots and are mentioned at the end of the coda story The Ship that Lived, when the Mekon escapes after sending them a distress signal in the Flamelands of Venus. They are seen in All Treens Must Die when Dan Dare penetrates their secret underground lair under the Flamelands. They are shown as three differently distorted versions of Treens
, being masters of mental, physical and biological sciences respectively. They are creating a new race of Treens for the Mekon to lead which will not be "infected" by Earth ideas such as freedom and democracy. At the end, the Mekon destroys the Last Three for having failed to eliminate Dan Dare.
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
hero Dan Dare
Dan Dare
Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories, that is, the Venus and Red Moon stories, and a complete storyline for Operation Saturn...
, appearing in the Eagle
Eagle (comic)
Eagle was a seminal British children's comic, first published from 1950 to 1969, and then in a relaunched format from 1982 to 1994. It was founded by Marcus Morris, an Anglican vicar from Lancashire. Morris edited a parish magazine called The Anvil, but felt that the church was not communicating...
comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future: they are allies of Dan Dare's arch-enemy The Mekon
The Mekon
The Mekon is the arch-enemy of the British comic book hero Dan Dare, first appearing in 1950 in the Eagle comic strip Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future and created by Frank Hampson. Apart from Dan Dare himself, he is the only character to appear in every one of the numerous versions of the comic strip...
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The Last Three are creators of the elektrobots that the Mekon uses to conquer the Earth in Reign of the Robots and are mentioned at the end of the coda story The Ship that Lived, when the Mekon escapes after sending them a distress signal in the Flamelands of Venus. They are seen in All Treens Must Die when Dan Dare penetrates their secret underground lair under the Flamelands. They are shown as three differently distorted versions of Treens
Treens
The Treens are fictional aliens in the Dan Dare stories. They debuted in Dan Dare: The First Story, which was serialized in the Eagle comic magazine from Volume 1, Number 1 to Volume 2, Number 25...
, being masters of mental, physical and biological sciences respectively. They are creating a new race of Treens for the Mekon to lead which will not be "infected" by Earth ideas such as freedom and democracy. At the end, the Mekon destroys the Last Three for having failed to eliminate Dan Dare.