By what nickname was the comic book character 'Alf Tupper' known?
Alf Tupper and featured Alf in training for the Barcelona Olympic games. UK punk rock band The Boys referred to their producer as "Alf Tupper", as a tribute to their hero. They used the name on records and in adverts in the music press as a top producer who could do anything. Alf Tupper Alf Tupper is a British comic strip, created by Bill Blaine (probably a pseudonym for William Blaine, head of DC Thomson comics), written by Gilbert Lawford Dalton. It stars a working class, "hard as nails" runner, whose adventures appeared in "The Rover" from 1949 and then "The Victor",
Nero (comic book character) Nero (comic book character) Nero is a Flemish comic book character and the main protagonist in Marc Sleen's long running comic book strip series "The Adventures of Nero" (1947–2002). He is one of the most recognizable comic book characters in Belgium and comparable to Lambik from the "Suske en Wiske" series by Willy Vandersteen. Nero is a middle aged, fairly obese man who is bald except for two long hairs on his head. Furthermore, he wears a huge red bow tie and has laurel leaves behind his ears, in reference to the Roman emperor Nero after whom he was named.