Dad 'famous for 50 miles' if you don't mind my guess.😊
Your '70s' growing up in southern England often surprisingly sounds like my '50s', though 'bikers' were only beginning in my school days.
You are better than me at names but I think it was 'The Wizard' ran serial stories with fewer drawings. For one character they drew imaginatively on an old myth, the Hero who returns at time of need to save the Nation. in this case the Sporting Nation. 'Wilson' showed up for a short serial from time to time. These often had a topical flavour for a Britain experiencing sporting challenges. In later decades the occasional wit showed up in an odd magazine or paper or two pretending to start a 'Bring Back Wilson' campaign!
It must have been in the early 70s though when I was being given a kind lift in a random lorry across the Highlands of Scotland that I mentioned to the driver an interesting cave I had been shown high in an unfrequented glen. The Scottish driver got it immediately; 'That's where Wilson did his training'.
Indeed; I had forgotten. These were interesting caves and I found out more a little later. Archaeology had found traces of bear and lynx, and the hearth place dating to the Mesolithic; the right place for our mythic hero to hole-up and prepare to fire the imagination.
Very great backstory to be introduced to literature 😁
Dad 'famous for 50 miles' if you don't mind my guess.😊
Your '70s' growing up in southern England often surprisingly sounds like my '50s', though 'bikers' were only beginning in my school days.
You are better than me at names but I think it was 'The Wizard' ran serial stories with fewer drawings. For one character they drew imaginatively on an old myth, the Hero who returns at time of need to save the Nation. in this case the Sporting Nation. 'Wilson' showed up for a short serial from time to time. These often had a topical flavour for a Britain experiencing sporting challenges. In later decades the occasional wit showed up in an odd magazine or paper or two pretending to start a 'Bring Back Wilson' campaign!
It must have been in the early 70s though when I was being given a kind lift in a random lorry across the Highlands of Scotland that I mentioned to the driver an interesting cave I had been shown high in an unfrequented glen. The Scottish driver got it immediately; 'That's where Wilson did his training'.
Indeed; I had forgotten. These were interesting caves and I found out more a little later. Archaeology had found traces of bear and lynx, and the hearth place dating to the Mesolithic; the right place for our mythic hero to hole-up and prepare to fire the imagination.
That’s fascinating Philip. I must research that. Thank you and I hope you are well.