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 to appear in every one of the numerous versions of the comic strip that appeared in the "Eagle", "2000 AD" and Virgin Comics. In the 1950s, roughly every other story featured the Mekon. The Mekon was the ruler of the Treens of northern Venus, although he was ousted from this position at the
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