was The Maggon, a Mekon-like parody of Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher, whose followers were the Toreens. In May 2013, the BBC radio soap opera The Archers featured a storyline in which regular character Brian Aldridge was aggrieved by a local newspaper article that compared him to the Mekon. Further reading Bibliography Dudley Jones, Tony Watkins, "A necessary fantasy?: the heroic figure in children's popular culture", Routledge, 2000, , pp. 166–168 Mike Conroy, "500 Comicbook Villains", Collins & Brown, 2004, , p. 334 Maurice Horn, "The World encyclopedia of comics, Volume 1", Chelsea House Publishers, 1976, , p. 194 References External links http://www.dandare.org.uk : "Dan Dare doesn't know it... but I like The Mekon" The Mekon at www.dandare.org http://www.dan-dare.net The Interactive Home of Dan Dare and The Mekon Comics characters introduced in 1950 Dan Dare Eagle (comic) characters Extraterrestrial supervillains 2000 AD characters