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leaving Wilson £5,000. He studied medicine and biology in a number of countries around the world and determined not to die early as so many he knew had, he worked out a health and fitness regime and learned how to slow his heart right down, using a formula created by people who could live to over 200. He developed his will power and hardened his body by whole winters spent in the open. Squadron leader W. Wilson D.S.O., D.F.C. and bar, who had 25 victories to his name, was shot down during the Second World War and was officially listed as missing.
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game still played occasionally by grown men of my own vintage who ought to know better. The game is called 'Wilsonisms' and its aim is to arrive at the ultimate absurdity in physical achievement. 1st player: Wilson climbed Mount Everest. 2nd player: At night. 3rd player: Barefoot. 4th player: Without oxygen. 1st player: With a twelve-stone man on his back. 2nd player: In fifteen minutes. 3rd player: Backwards. 4th player: With a tray of drinks in each hand." – quoted on
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that Wilson's exploits were so extraordinary, they inspired a game of topping each other with increasingly absurd 'Wilsonisms': "In one episode he takes a giant leap and breaks the world long jump record while in the act of running a three-minute mile ... His most tangible legacy is a parlour
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William Wilson was born in the village of Stayling in Yorkshire and claimed to be born on 1 November 1795. However a document dated 11 March 1774 listed him as "clerk to the manor". He was sufficiently old that when writing, he used an "f" instead of an "s". His farmer father died in middle age,
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comic of 1983 to 1984, initially within a comic strip with art by Neville Wilson. Referred to as The Man in Black, the character was revealed to be Wilson in the course of the story, with reprints of the older material published within the comic as Wilson's diaries.
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remembers him as a "focused and intense individual ... recorded instance of him smiling or cracking a joke." In 2004 artist John Reynolds acquired the licence to reproduce images of Wilson as large
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deputy editor and athletics statistician, Ian Smith, cites the character as an inspiration, and he inspired many British athletes in their careers as well as Belgian cyclist
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in Australia. Originally hailing from Yorkshire, and living in a cave on a diet of nuts and berries, Wilson exemplified British grit and the stiff upper lip.
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The character is depicted within stories as performing a number of improbable events. Wilson was seen in one strip becoming the first man to climb
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Sporting Supermen: Wilson of the Wizard, "Tough of the Track" and Roy of the Rovers: The Life and Times of the Comic-Book Heroes
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It follows the sporting adventures of a heroic character named William Wilson. The stories were written by
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to be the prototype of the "astonishing sporting prodigies" who became popular in British comics, (cf.
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saw the character depicted in comic strip form. The character was later revived for D.C. Thomson's
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was a British comic strip, first published in 1943 in the British illustrated story paper
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and drawn by Jack Glass. The stories ran until 1984 in various British magazines.
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Turnbull, Simon. "Leftfield: Cortisone in the act of doing a bit of bird",
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wore a black leotard on stage during the 1970s as a tribute to Wilson.
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collected a number of the text stories in the 1960s. Thought by
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Bryant, John. "Phenomenal pen that rewrote the record books",
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he "was hailed as a welcome wartime morale booster", while
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Fan site with reader memories and scans of all the comics
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Fan site with reader memories of the strip and comic
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Wilson of the Wizard
Publisher
D. C. Thomson & Co.
First appearance
The Wizard
Gilbert Lawford Dalton
The Wizard
D. C. Thomson & Co.
Gilbert Lawford Dalton
three-minute mile
Gilbert Lawford Dalton
Paul Gravett
Alf Tupper
Roy of the Rovers
The Hornet
Hotspur
Spike
Everest
cricket
The Ashes
The Guardian
The Telegraph
screen-print
Eddy Merckx
Billy Connolly




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