Alf Tupper is the protagonist of a British comic strip, The Tough of the Track (or Alf Tupper: The Tough of the Track), created by Bill Blaine (probably a pseudonym for William Blaine, head of DC Thomson comics), written by Gilbert Lawford Dalton. He is 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. Many artists have written and drawn his stories, including Pete Sutherland, during his run in The Victor.[1][2][3]
In April 2014, Alf Tupper returned in a monthly one-page comic-strip feature in the international athletics magazine Athletics Weekly.[4]
- ^ "Athletics Weekly revives Alf Tupper, "Tough of the Track" for London Marathon". 11 April 2014.
- ^ "Alf Tupper - Tough of the Track". www.toughofthetrack.net.
- ^ "Peter Sutherland". lambiek.net.
- ^ Jason henderson (9 April 2014). "Alf Tupper returns". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 5 May 2016.