The Mekon he doesn't know it, but I like the Mekon." British rock band The Mekons named themselves after the character in 1977. In May 2013, the BBC radio soap opera "The Archers" featured a storyline in which regular character Brian Aldridge was aggrieved by a local newspaper article that compared him to the Mekon. The Mekon The Mekon (of Mekonta) 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
Frank S. Pepper the strip, from Pepper's outline, after four episodes, using the pseudonym Stewart Colwyn. Other series he wrote scripts for included "Dan Dare" for "Eagle", "Jet-Ace Logan" in "The Comet" and "Tiger" and "The Spellbinder" for "Lion. He retired from comics in 1983, and started compiling collections of quotations, including "Twentieth Century Quotations", "Contemporary Biographical Quotations", "Dictionary of Biographical Quotations" and "Twentieth Century Anecdotes". He died in Cornwall on 11 December 1988. He was married and had four children. Frank S. Pepper Frank Stuart Pepper (8 February 1910 – 11 December 1988) was a British writer of comics and story papers