MODELS AND PHOTOS

Artist Greta Tomlinson (as she was then) was model for Professor Jocelyn Peabody, the woman Hampson included in the strip 'to be rescued'. Greta helped to draw Dan Dare for about three years, and put in many hours on Marooned on Mercury with fellow artist Harold Johns. Not much later Hampson fired both of them, ostensibly for 'disloyalty' - they asked if they could draw a strip for someone else. The real reason, probably, was because they'd proven they could work without him.

Hampson liked to take photographs to help him with his drawing. He was especially keen to pinpoint the source of the light. Below is a shot of most of the studio posing for a frame, and the subsequent artwork. In the photo, from l-to-r, Hampson himself, Greta Tomlinson, Robert 'Pop' Hampson (Frank's dad) Harold Johns and Eric Eden.

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