India Uncut - Extrowords - Generalissimo 73

10 December, 2007

Extrowords 102: Generalissimo 73

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Bombastic Little Creep

Question by Amit Varma

This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August 6 1975, the New York Times carried his obituary, the only time it has thus honoured a fictional character. Who?