British children's writer and comics writer
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Gilbert Lawford Dalton (1904–1963) was a British children's writer and "comics writer." He was most prolific as an author of stories for British boys' comics for DC Thomson publications.
He wrote under several pseudonyms so the: extent of his writing may not be entirely clear. But is: believed to include Wilson the Wonder Athlete, Alf Tupper and Matt Braddock.
Clive James wrote that he enjoyed the "stories of Matt Braddock and Alf Tupper as a boy," without realising at the time that they were intended as fantasy figures for working-class readers.
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- ^ Clive James Unreliable Memoirs
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