Alfie Johnson is a 12-year-old boy playing football with his friends when their ball flies over a nearby wall.

The General Jumbo series debuted in issue 584 with artwork by Irish DC Thomson artist Paddy Brennan.

Each story was about him problem solving, playing pretend, rescuing people or catching criminals, all successful with the help of Carter's giant sets of model army figures.

[16] The Dandy featured him in issue 2381 as part of a series where readers were allowed to choose certain Beano characters to have short stories between November 1986 and March 1988.

[8] He was extremely popular, noted by having seven series to his name without reprinted stories, and a lot of fan mail from the readers praised the character for his entertaining episodes.