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
Dorothy Dare "Gold Diggers of 1935", "Front Page Woman" (1935), "High Hat" (1937), and "Clothes and the Woman" (1937). She sang such songs as "Red Headed and Blue" and "Yoo Hoo Hoo". By the late 1930s and early 1940s, Dare began to lose parts. In 1942, she made her final film appearance as Peggy in "The Yanks Are Coming" and in 1944 she sang her last musical number in "Musical Movieland". Dare left movies and moved to Orange County, California. She seldom granted interviews or wrote about her Hollywood years. She died at her home on October 4, 1981, and was buried