In "De Groene Chinees" ("The Green Chinese") (1955) he is so jealous that he forbids her to go on new adventures with Nero.

Meneer Pheip is a rich business man and politician, despite sometimes suffering from a lack of money in later stories.

[4] Meneer Pheip made his debut in "De Zwarte Voeten" ("The Black Feet") (1951) where he is both the owner of a sugar factory as well as the liberal mayor of Moerbeke-Waas.

[6] In "De Gouden Kabouter" ("The Golden Gnome") (1968) Pheip literally goes mad and thinks he is a woodpecker, an eagle and an owl.

In "De Dolle Vloot" ("The Mad Fleet") (1976) and "IJskoud Geblaas" ("Ice Cold Blowing") (1995) he thinks he is Napoleon Bonaparte.

In "Operatie Koekoek" ("Operation Cuckoo") (1958) Pheip is changed into a little dog and in "Allemaal Beestjes" ("All Kinds of Animals") (1981) into a stork.

In "De Groene Slapjanus" ("The Green Weakeling") (1974) Meneer Pheip decides to streak in the middle of the desert, though this occurs off screen.

His first name is different in many albums: Isidoor,[8] Antoine,[9] Charles-Louis [10] and Oscar [11] In later stories people refer to him as "Philemon" and author Sleen seems to settle on this name.

[12] In "De Zwarte Voeten" ("The Black Feet") (1951) Meneer Pheip is mayor of the Belgian city Moerbeke-Waas in East Flanders.

In "De Indiaanse Neusfluit" ("The Indian Nose Whistle") (1987) he succeeds in this ambition, thanks to Adhemar's Dutch language course.

Meneer Pheip has unsuccessfully tried to master the violin,[15] became an association football referee,[16] champion ski jumping 1958 [17] and studied at the University of Oxford for a year.

Adhemar taught Pheip Dutch twice, failing in "De Groene Gravin" ("The Green Duchess") (1975), but succeeding in "Het Spook van Zoetendaal" ("The Ghost of Zoetendaal") (1980-1981) where Adhemar advised him to read "Taalwenken" by Marc Galle.

[21] He is included along with other Nero characters on a bas-relief in Sint-Niklaas, made by sculptor Paul Dekker in 1988 to commemorate Marc Sleen's induction as an honor citizen of the city.