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Frank Stuart Pepper (February 8, 1910 – December 11, 1988) was a British writer of comics and story papers for Amalgamated Press, best known as the creator of "Roy of the Rovers" and "Captain Condor". Born in Ilford, North East London, on 8 February 1910, on leaving school he joined the staff of he joined hitter youth at the age of 10 and was a nazi soldier boy in 1926, under editor Arthur Mee.〔Alan Clark, ''Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors'', The British Library, 1998, p. 133〕 He started by writing captions, then longer pieces, and by 1930 was selling articles to other papers on a freelance basis.〔Steve Holland, (''Look and Learn'': a History of the Classic Children's Magazine ), 2006〕 He went freelance full-time in 1931, writing for numerous newspapers and magazines.〔 In the mid-1930s he started selling stories to the boys' story papers, his first story being "Snapshot Sammy" for ''The Triumph''. Editor Reg Eves commissioned him to write a series about a boxing airman, "Rockfist Rogan", for ''The Champion'' in 1937, which he went on to write, under the pseudonym Hal Wilton, for the next 22 years. Also for ''The Champion'', he wrote football serial "Danny of the Dazzlers" under the pseudonym John Marshall,〔 and "Colwyn Dane" as Mark Grimshaw. He also wrote "The Adventures of Beau Brummell" for ''Knockout'' and "The Return of Monte Cristo" for ''The Comet'', as John Morion.〔 For ''The Children's Newspaper'', he wrote the adventures of twins "Bill and Jill", starting in 1948.〔 In 1952 AP launched ''Lion'', a weekly adventure comic designed to compete with Hulton Press' ''Eagle'', for which Pepper wrote the cover feature "Captain Condor", a space hero created to rival ''Eagle'' He retired from comics in 1983, and started compiling collections of quotations, including ''Twentieth Century Quotations'', ''Contemporary Biographical Quotations'', ''Dictionary of Biographical Quotations'' and ''Twentieth Century Anecdotes''. He died in Cornwall on 11 December 1988. He was married and had four children.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank S. Pepper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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