How was Alf Tupper known in the boy's comic 'Victor'?
Alf Tupper 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", British boys' comics from D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. His adventures appeared over almost a 40-year period, until 1992, under the title "The Tough of the Track". Many artists have written and drawn his stories, including Pete Sutherland, during his run in "The Victor". In April 2014 Alf Tupper
Alf Tupper Alf, (in "The Victor Book for Boys") is a self-employed welder – "Welding done here" – and is still located under the railway arches in fictional Greystone, a drab town with cobbled streets where heavy industry employs thousands of manual workers. By the 1970s, some of the early 1950s storylines were being re-introduced to a new generation. There was even a 'prequel' series about Alf's "rough tough boyhood" and his struggle with the authorities as an orphan (began in "The Victor" 0626 dated 17 February 1973). Alf's last published appearance came in the Scottish newspaper, "The Sunday Post" in 1992