tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3329191508185539352024-03-12T23:47:42.769-07:00Yesterday's Papers Archivejohn adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-20497452954877276092011-12-05T12:35:00.000-08:002011-12-05T12:36:17.510-08:00Dream of a Lobster Fiend<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIHAH2NF5J0W6jxmckjbvvis5QmiHd8ZLHZkK1aC4UXJ9D4gIuZHnrxXfGXm2HJZDk854y8HWYan713zze03mO8a4LjDI2aXN4rPCoZMfD6wg5F1yk1cXfWvdFEXPiR6sARQYPKvKNJeI/s1600/lobster+fiend+14+oct+1918.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIHAH2NF5J0W6jxmckjbvvis5QmiHd8ZLHZkK1aC4UXJ9D4gIuZHnrxXfGXm2HJZDk854y8HWYan713zze03mO8a4LjDI2aXN4rPCoZMfD6wg5F1yk1cXfWvdFEXPiR6sARQYPKvKNJeI/s400/lobster+fiend+14+oct+1918.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682745783324449954" /></a><br /><div><br /></div>john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-37627344679762561212009-08-24T10:19:00.000-07:002009-08-24T10:45:12.089-07:00Rio Bravo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-XbiXHFEZBiyH0SR1Ab7-YetLORDPxAZjndCZ-NMG3ef-Fkh0DfLN03s8NjUdxdZXoOG_uo3P0e5rGGSX9ev85DXuLtK7l3ufGS195rhFTrZ-hMcEQwiyghQFayp0AVm0_ejXvdgjO-g/s1600-h/rio+bravo.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 233px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-XbiXHFEZBiyH0SR1Ab7-YetLORDPxAZjndCZ-NMG3ef-Fkh0DfLN03s8NjUdxdZXoOG_uo3P0e5rGGSX9ev85DXuLtK7l3ufGS195rhFTrZ-hMcEQwiyghQFayp0AVm0_ejXvdgjO-g/s320/rio+bravo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373582277044272402" /></a><div><p class="MsoNormal">In 1959, right around my birthday, a movie was released called Rio Bravo. John Wayne was at that time one of those generational hangovers between the thirties generation and the boomers. Baby-faced Ricky Nelson (Ozzie and Harriet), who played a stone-cold killer, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPYCJlFfhW8">sang</a> a few songs as a sop to the kiddies and the bubble-gummers who might be bored by all the craggy faces of the “Greatest” generation. </p></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUAdb9MHDiOGPujRjcD_9723tGmah6shaoRONCWWvygGBui5xPJDRl74jklpRJtmURR9csA5CociCPCX0fHFgE9DcmmT4b8-8sMH6yTxPQr-uw6ymD0YmffKPiKLJsBUUUptkT142p6lE/s1600-h/wayne+dickinson.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 161px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUAdb9MHDiOGPujRjcD_9723tGmah6shaoRONCWWvygGBui5xPJDRl74jklpRJtmURR9csA5CociCPCX0fHFgE9DcmmT4b8-8sMH6yTxPQr-uw6ymD0YmffKPiKLJsBUUUptkT142p6lE/s320/wayne+dickinson.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373582158118521618" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I attended with an older brother and his cynical thirteen year old friends, one of whom threw a wad of gum at Ricky Nelson, onscreen, to a chorus of appreciative teenage boos. As sweet and treacley as Ricky Martin’s personality was he did master the double gun twirl which he pulled off with much aplomb. Elvis had sacrificed his sideburns and ducktail for a respectable army crew-cut the previous year in 1958 and radio (except for a few talented bands like Dion and the Belmonts), was a bland wasteland of pimply teenage idols who sold millions to adoring tweeny fans.</div><div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUAdb9MHDiOGPujRjcD_9723tGmah6shaoRONCWWvygGBui5xPJDRl74jklpRJtmURR9csA5CociCPCX0fHFgE9DcmmT4b8-8sMH6yTxPQr-uw6ymD0YmffKPiKLJsBUUUptkT142p6lE/s1600-h/wayne+dickinson.jpg"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaJamWZ20wwU-zLU6TLvApNZ8xlNtyRNWvktSMk-LoScG6g6_CYFknIpjrp0taCLC2aCuBTpw2lArgWcsr7lrj5GiN_FmJlub5W9N0L1cSgZfYF1JWSeBGmbSTxhXRHppA_APP3_L4vxE/s1600-h/ricky+nelson.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 306px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaJamWZ20wwU-zLU6TLvApNZ8xlNtyRNWvktSMk-LoScG6g6_CYFknIpjrp0taCLC2aCuBTpw2lArgWcsr7lrj5GiN_FmJlub5W9N0L1cSgZfYF1JWSeBGmbSTxhXRHppA_APP3_L4vxE/s320/ricky+nelson.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373582066030290114" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Walter Brennan, star of TV’s Real McCoys, and a best selling recording artist on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDYsw4t2rAI&feature=related">“Old Rivers,”</a> played <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsnPpt4r7mk&feature=related">Stumpy</a>, John Wayne’s cantankerous sidekick, bringing some much needed comic relief to an otherwise bleak film of <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>alcoholism and violence. Like John Wayne, Republican Walter Brennan would become persona non grata to the hippie left of the oncoming sixties. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Dean Martin as well, the drunken bugger insulted rock royalty when he ridiculed the Rolling Stones on his show in 1964.</div><div> <p class="MsoNormal">As sidekicks go, though, Brennan was one of the best of a group of comic men that included Gabby Hayes, Chill Wills, Andy Devine and Slim Pickens. When <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fMJfv5Ns7g&feature=related">Slim Pickens</a> was gutshot in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and staggered off to a Bob Dylan dirge, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, was that Peckinpah’s tribute to the passing of the “American Sidekick?” At any rate Brennan’s voice was unforgettable; he was one of the funniest sidekicks in the movie business. John Wayne teased Stumpy unmercifully, and he limped through the movie in a permanent state of grumpy, bruised, hurt feelings.</p><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAVluhIsNlKKY2tT9YFhPHv2N6wS-szN4rCKiPpcbL7Yw2JP4ummbvQhTWCwMLPRyv_604UsFFQrJlf2u6so1pFIBDp2Ffp6WZjHxbpawWkEGWLxuQfRVtwu39W-YQwB1_kfaOSxayN_Y/s1600-h/second+stumpy.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 221px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAVluhIsNlKKY2tT9YFhPHv2N6wS-szN4rCKiPpcbL7Yw2JP4ummbvQhTWCwMLPRyv_604UsFFQrJlf2u6so1pFIBDp2Ffp6WZjHxbpawWkEGWLxuQfRVtwu39W-YQwB1_kfaOSxayN_Y/s320/second+stumpy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373581971508500946" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Dell Comics (“are good comics”) released a comic book adaptation of the movie, illustrated by the prolific Alex Toth, as they did every Hollywood film and television show in that period, from Santiago to Quentin Durward. The artists worked from movie stills provided by the studios and yet I noticed they never seemed to capture likenesses that well.</div><div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAVluhIsNlKKY2tT9YFhPHv2N6wS-szN4rCKiPpcbL7Yw2JP4ummbvQhTWCwMLPRyv_604UsFFQrJlf2u6so1pFIBDp2Ffp6WZjHxbpawWkEGWLxuQfRVtwu39W-YQwB1_kfaOSxayN_Y/s1600-h/second+stumpy.jpg"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJrHmDo_mAPl6efuauIhw8UsL3DKQzoo289s84ywcou1KlHpjYaHLNYow5TtxLcuMEOMMJSP5aEdOTZAi0Wd7-4zlvq3XvEq6S8t8RML4QqF_cJMs23W2eu1Jg63cXK5Gr7dKaiZz2GTI/s1600-h/dean+martin.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJrHmDo_mAPl6efuauIhw8UsL3DKQzoo289s84ywcou1KlHpjYaHLNYow5TtxLcuMEOMMJSP5aEdOTZAi0Wd7-4zlvq3XvEq6S8t8RML4QqF_cJMs23W2eu1Jg63cXK5Gr7dKaiZz2GTI/s320/dean+martin.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373581863489081250" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Dell, in keeping to their “Pledge to Parents,” that their comic magazines contained only “clean and wholesome entertainment,” left the blood out of the following scene. In the film it was the dripping blood that alerts the town drunk, played by Martin, that a cowpoke in the rafters has a bead on him. The blood was crucial to the film but left out of the adaptation.</div><div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJrHmDo_mAPl6efuauIhw8UsL3DKQzoo289s84ywcou1KlHpjYaHLNYow5TtxLcuMEOMMJSP5aEdOTZAi0Wd7-4zlvq3XvEq6S8t8RML4QqF_cJMs23W2eu1Jg63cXK5Gr7dKaiZz2GTI/s1600-h/dean+martin.jpg"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivdAmh1gdCvPbbdGPUUH7WymN8KjsqszpOTVC-2SOjAvTeSQDuxaf4PsfYxhceSTxvRhyClRzC3L5LOt7aPgLqta0ztnIjoN3MaxFrSIjLFDiR_x_kciMn7FksrdWzA2E0ns88rE1-5sE/s1600-h/blood.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivdAmh1gdCvPbbdGPUUH7WymN8KjsqszpOTVC-2SOjAvTeSQDuxaf4PsfYxhceSTxvRhyClRzC3L5LOt7aPgLqta0ztnIjoN3MaxFrSIjLFDiR_x_kciMn7FksrdWzA2E0ns88rE1-5sE/s320/blood.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373581557236340546" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The adaptation was actually quite well scripted, in 32 pages little of the plot of the film was left out. None of the actors, however, was portrayed in a very recognizable way. The worst were Walter Brennan, who bears no resemblance to the grizzled sidekick, and Angie Dickinson, likewise. Could be they had to make do without a movie still of that actress. Toth may have been a dud as a caricaturist of celebrities but his impressionistic artwork was up to his usual standards. </div><div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivdAmh1gdCvPbbdGPUUH7WymN8KjsqszpOTVC-2SOjAvTeSQDuxaf4PsfYxhceSTxvRhyClRzC3L5LOt7aPgLqta0ztnIjoN3MaxFrSIjLFDiR_x_kciMn7FksrdWzA2E0ns88rE1-5sE/s1600-h/blood.jpg"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGFAN1MFbnXdcHSCXnjnF1tW7o9UzF7TveVFHviEDfqdqdTgIjgNypZqMi95zalrj6SKDI5eDkn-MFxL-ZdzXchnLUC_SmqLBwmn7Li8BhQuIeB_o7Uxhvp-CQjM1K8dEYj_6n5NZ2sX0/s1600-h/stumpy+last.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 223px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGFAN1MFbnXdcHSCXnjnF1tW7o9UzF7TveVFHviEDfqdqdTgIjgNypZqMi95zalrj6SKDI5eDkn-MFxL-ZdzXchnLUC_SmqLBwmn7Li8BhQuIeB_o7Uxhvp-CQjM1K8dEYj_6n5NZ2sX0/s320/stumpy+last.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373581486208660706" /></a><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div>john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-59959902261036760572009-03-27T12:08:00.000-07:002009-03-27T12:13:21.564-07:00Cultural Aspects of Serial Cartoons<em> “It may almost be set down as a law of cultural history that the vulgar amusements of today are the highbrow art of tomorrow.”</em><br /><br /><strong>Some Cultural Aspects of Serial Cartoons; or, Get a Load of those Funnies</strong>, by Ignatius G. Mattingly, Harper’s Magazine 1954.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPJpWjTu5V-GkXPG0KqAFf5TF6f2Fnr_eCC_TfRw192aV_We5idma84GK6Ff4_LHotd0D4wBUfY0M8oc-CETkWTdNE5D99lmFybnVcRFPydMJMBwKTVMLdmXuWn5XwlC2N2aFtu0tR0T8/s1600-h/Untitled-Scanned-01.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317947048504135634" style="WIDTH: 272px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPJpWjTu5V-GkXPG0KqAFf5TF6f2Fnr_eCC_TfRw192aV_We5idma84GK6Ff4_LHotd0D4wBUfY0M8oc-CETkWTdNE5D99lmFybnVcRFPydMJMBwKTVMLdmXuWn5XwlC2N2aFtu0tR0T8/s400/Untitled-Scanned-01.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkAue9FXeA0nz6oqEoLbSJRyO4xOrI3n-v44wRFQLuuxNGtzy5txQIPwPck6-lUJJlVerTtcVV4tm1ocTFK7ZtZMg3gDEE7na-gA1D1PGe3cFNK8Kwt3gJd5qPEEKDcCfeBtMW1ZtJ8K0/s1600-h/Untitled-Scanned-02.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317946990115411538" style="WIDTH: 265px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkAue9FXeA0nz6oqEoLbSJRyO4xOrI3n-v44wRFQLuuxNGtzy5txQIPwPck6-lUJJlVerTtcVV4tm1ocTFK7ZtZMg3gDEE7na-gA1D1PGe3cFNK8Kwt3gJd5qPEEKDcCfeBtMW1ZtJ8K0/s400/Untitled-Scanned-02.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47YNhVSV4TrWBvTFBn4jJo-88mwVEt1gtmdoAGsx11Fr6BwMv4lIueNjCuvuHcBQ1y_8wSvBmKpX8tfsFd5kvBIEb3o3xyM9vzNuzpYyvwBavLkCdlwuOqbE3nsJM-wDS75QAPwQ1H5o/s1600-h/Untitled-Scanned-03.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317946922227572050" style="WIDTH: 266px; 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width: 242px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtJ1OHoWGtyXZXCHtlIdvcoT0H7zCQwMIfKpPSMURUtwUU5iCWD0BvELKLJTN514qR4tXbdBh8b2ySDTRJvRb19U8AcKIYaVPkYuHgf3NtGQQPT0MMyNNuOefFgRb_xY1jNZFAVaAWhlU/s400/gibbet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303923282257769874" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Investigating the obscure and often mysterious origins of the authors of penny bloods can be very pleasing when you discover some unknown bit of information; on the other hand it can also lead to bewildered frustration. One of the most mysterious and elusive authors of all is <a href="http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2007/02/james-lindridge.html">James Lindridge</a>, author of “Tyburn Tree,” a rattling penny blood which featured the colorful characters of Blueskin, Jonathan Wild, Captain Jem Macleane, Captain Fury, Dick Flybynight and the Black Gang, Sal the Gonoff, Blackmoor, Captain Grawler, Gipsey Betty, Jenny Diver, Handsome Jack, Lawyer Doom, Beauty Ellis, Tramping Ned, Mother Sin, and the alchemist Dr. Trotter.<br /><br />I took the following notes from the copy I read;<br /><br />Tyburn Tree; or, The Mysteries of the Past, by J. Dicks, Esq. Author of “The Old Manor House” &c., &c. Beautifully Illustrated. London : G. Purkess, Compton Street, Soho ; and all booksellers. 44 parts, single column, 358 pages.<br /><br />The artist was not named but it was definitely W. H. Thwaites, illustrator of Pierce Egan Junior’s Robin Hood and G. W. M. Reynolds’s Mysteries of London published by John Dicks. In the gutters were squibs advertising :<br /><br /> “Now Publishing. The King of the Beggars; or, Bampflyde Moore Carew by G. Purkess.”<br />“Jack Rann ; Alias Sixteen String Jack, By G. Purkess. No. 2 Given away with No.1.”<br />“The Corsican Brothers. In penny numbers.”<br /><br />The author of the British Library copy of Tyburn Tree; or, the Mysteries of the Past is given as Jayhohenn DEEHISEEKAYESS Esq., pig-Latin for John Dicks. The publisher was R. S. Swift: London.1849. UCLA has a copy and this note; “attributed to James Lindridge, cf. Summers, Montague. A gothic bibliography. London [1941]” A contemporary, Thomas Frost, author of the above mentioned Corsican Brothers, was first to attribute Tyburn Tree to Lindridge.<br /><br />Lately while perusing the periodicals of the past I came across the following paragraph :<br /><br />Society for the Encouragement of Vice. -<br /><br />“It is with strong feelings of disgust we notice a Society instituted for such an infamous purpose; but it is a fact that a club, consisting of between 30 and forty fellows, having a Treasurer, President, Stewards, &c. is established to defray in common the charges which any member may incur by bastardy (sic). We shall at present abstain from giving further particulars, but the parties may depend upon it that if the Society be not shortly dissolved, we shall give publicity to their names, and call down on them that indignation and contempt which they so justly deserve, and bring those dressed in “brief authority” to condign punishment.”<br />From the Brighton Gazette, December 31, 1824, reprinted in the New Times.<br /><br />This is so strikingly similar to a chapter in another Lindridge work The Merry Wives of London a Romance of Metropolitan Life, by the Author of The “Socialist Girl,” etc., etc., that I have to believe he took his scenes from this 1828 story. Frank Jay calls it a “most extraordinary and extremely reprehensible work,” Montague Summers described it as “pseudo-pornography.” A sample of the purple prose :<br /><br />“Am I in godly company?” she whispered to him.<br />“The sons and daughters of Satan do abound here; but presently we will destroy them with the sword of Gideon!” replied Jasper, giving her hand a palpable squeeze.<br />“Is it sinful to dance ?”<br />“No; or else it were sinful to lie with a man.”<br />“Fie ! that is natural.”<br />“Quite; and proper, too, when the parties are agreeable. The world must be populated, madam.”<br />“Verily it must; it was the law given to Abraham.”<br />“The wages of continence are death.”<br />“I feel it to be so. Would that we could pray !”<br />“On your back, madam - very proper wish; but not allowed here.”<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFirQbIZ6epYoFuKPSaHEzMy-7Ctj20bjWNJYxCmyLPqmQD4IVtXX-RpLmb7rdLUNf6anRZ0gnwYAVai_3Bwud-bS6VM2KU-n5g02CvIBkgmNFHhvfXXM5TwMF_m68G5e_2875Wh_XRKI/s1600-h/frontispiece.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 248px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFirQbIZ6epYoFuKPSaHEzMy-7Ctj20bjWNJYxCmyLPqmQD4IVtXX-RpLmb7rdLUNf6anRZ0gnwYAVai_3Bwud-bS6VM2KU-n5g02CvIBkgmNFHhvfXXM5TwMF_m68G5e_2875Wh_XRKI/s400/frontispiece.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303923198619673234" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Not one fact is known about James Lindridge, not his date of birth, or date of death. One John Dicks was very well known, the publisher John Thomas Dicks, who bears one connection with Lindridge : he was the foremost employer of W. H. Thwaites, the illustrator. If Dicks was an author he kept very quiet about it. Frank Jay says that The Secret History of the Court of England from the accession of George the Third to the death of George the Fourth, by the Right Hon. Lady Anne Hamilton was published by John Dicks, which is unlikely since he was 14 years old at the time.<br /><br />There were plenty of James Lindridge’s in the UK. In Frindsbury, Kent there was a James born in 1798, another James in 1814, and another in 1815. In 1825 there was another from Ashford, Kent and one from High Halden. There were James Lindridge’s residing in Kent right up to 1940. Unfortunately I can find no information about their occupations. For what it’s worth our Lindridge did publish one title with that geographical location ; De Lisle; or, the Fair Maid of Kent.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJd5fCjP_vJLsc1xH8kPG-6mqronUnseYa9Cr6LXiPHExUUKB8rWBgvJNbfDLe-8KEUSRrNs4kry7tPR2aM8ydgUbIn3Y7QplcS-bvMpwDAD0dEPr5vmMqhyZF4MwHXXNi1jfueU4LXiM/s1600-h/handsomejack.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJd5fCjP_vJLsc1xH8kPG-6mqronUnseYa9Cr6LXiPHExUUKB8rWBgvJNbfDLe-8KEUSRrNs4kry7tPR2aM8ydgUbIn3Y7QplcS-bvMpwDAD0dEPr5vmMqhyZF4MwHXXNi1jfueU4LXiM/s400/handsomejack.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303923095179408690" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Bibliography :<br /><br />1845 *Tales of Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea* "containing talented<br />sketches of the sea and seamen, and truthful narratives of<br />shipwrecks, fires, mutinies, famines and every danger of this life of<br />peril, rendering it the handsomest, largest, and best pennyworth ever<br />offered to the public." Sixpence. 60 Nos. Thirty engravings<br />Illustrated by Landells and others. William M. Clark, 17, Warwick<br />Lane.<br /><br />1845 *The Life and Adventures of Jack Rann, Alias Sixteen-String<br />Jack the Highwayman* By James Lindridge. London : G. Purkess. (BM -<br />Block, The English Novel)<br /><br />1845 *Jack Rann, Alias Sixteen-String Jack.* By James Lindridge,<br />Author of "De Lisle," "Tyburn Tree" &c. London : G. Purkess, Compton<br />Street, Soho. Illustrated by Thwaites. 52 Nos. (Ono)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLcl06bmPwwQuRSexkLk8_tGBUBdE6JN5YSYD2ScMp2Dp1Pf8fP8KLcS7lqFCkosITPrFrDtODZYYY01gsMpQ4-dEfJp8xLvrgWGdVsqv7sm1qjHeujLInq4rl_XCoOuBjQrdwP1CvUaI/s1600-h/jackrann.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLcl06bmPwwQuRSexkLk8_tGBUBdE6JN5YSYD2ScMp2Dp1Pf8fP8KLcS7lqFCkosITPrFrDtODZYYY01gsMpQ4-dEfJp8xLvrgWGdVsqv7sm1qjHeujLInq4rl_XCoOuBjQrdwP1CvUaI/s400/jackrann.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303922995984540194" border="0" /></a><br /><br />1848*Tyburn Tree; or, The Mysteries of the Past* By J. Dicks, Esq.<br />Author of "the Old Manor House," &c., &c. (Charlotte Smith)<br />beautifully illustrated. London: G. Purkess, Compton street, Soho;<br />and all Booksellers. University of Alberta copy. ND 1848 attribution<br />U of A catalogue. Illustrations by W. H. Thwaites.<br /><br />1848*The Adventures of Marmaduke Midge, the Pickwickian legatee* by<br />the author of "Tyburn Tree" (James Lindridge, sometimes this title is<br />wrongly attributed to Edward Viles) 86 pgs. London : G. Vickers.<br />(1848 ? BL)<br /><br />1849 *Tyburn Tree; or, The Mysteries of the Past* By Jayhohenn<br />Deehiseekayess, Esq., (pseud. James Lindridge) W. H. Thwaites,<br />illustrator. G. Purkess, Compton Street, Soho. BL.<br /><br />1850 *Tyburn Tree; or, The Mysteries of the Past* James Lindridge.<br />George Vickers, Holywell Street. October 29, 1850, 40 Nos. (Jay)<br /><br />1850*The Merry Wives of London. A Romance of Metropolitan Life.* By<br />the Author of The "Socialist Girl," etc., etc. "When a woman is<br />depraved by man, her own sex, strange to say, are her bitterest<br />enemies." - Mrs. Hutchinson. London : G. Vickers, 28 and 29, Holywell<br />Street, Strand. James Lindridge, Illustrated by Thwaites. 26 Nos. 200<br />pages. (Ono)<br /><br />1850 *De Lisle ;or, the Shipwrecked Stranger* James Lindridge.<br />London, 49 parts. Oxford Library.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz9DqCKkKqoZqAsQMsuzdWNoZGN6NurUOQ9WFdbG-reNC503pfJ9XXXjt8eKgFAPposWi_QH7apb2Ws5fKbLOAEW8kADqtFipxDgvQ8qkgl94oX499ojGZaAspUNNFh6JmxuSuAU3jgjc/s1600-h/jenny+diver.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz9DqCKkKqoZqAsQMsuzdWNoZGN6NurUOQ9WFdbG-reNC503pfJ9XXXjt8eKgFAPposWi_QH7apb2Ws5fKbLOAEW8kADqtFipxDgvQ8qkgl94oX499ojGZaAspUNNFh6JmxuSuAU3jgjc/s400/jenny+diver.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303922877867755586" border="0" /></a><br /><br />1850 *De Lisle ;or, the Shipwrecked Stranger* James Lindridge.<br />London : William Caffyn. The author identifies himself on p. 270 as<br />author of "The Ruined Cottage" which was "The Ruined Cottage; or, The<br />Farmer's Maid," by Hannah Maria Jones in 78 Nos. from same publisher.<br />In section titled "Parting Words" the author refers to himself as "a<br />very young man." Printer : W. M. Clark. Trinity College, Dublin.<br /><br />1850 *Jack Rann, Alias Sixteen String Jack* by James Lindridge. March<br />23, 1850. George Purkess, Compton Street, Soho. (Jay)<br /><br />1851 *Jenny Diver, The Female Highwayman* James Lindridge.<br />Illustrated by W. H. Thwaites. S. J. Collins January 25.<br /><br />1851*Jonathan Wild; or, The Thief taker's Daughter* By Ambrose<br />Hudson. London : W. Winn, 34, Holywell Street, Strand. Illustrated by<br />W. H. Thwaites.<br /><br />1857 *Tyburn Tree; or, The Mysteries of the Past* James Lindridge.<br />George Purkess, Compton Street, Soho. (Jay)<br /><br />1860 ?*Tyburn Tree* in four 100-page parts issues. Others were<br />*Handsome Jack ; or, the Shadow of the Scaffold* *Captain M'Cleane;<br />or, the Gallop to the Gallows* *Dick Flybynight and the Black Gang*<br />NY : De Witt. (Bill Blackbeard)<br /><br />1861*Tyburn Tree; or, the Mysteries of the Past* By James Lindridge.<br />Thwaites Illustration. 31 nos. London : R. S. Swift, 1861. (Ono)<br /><br />1865 * Tyburn Tree; or, The Highwaymen of England* London : George<br />Howe. 30 Nos. 1865. (Ono)<br /><br />1868 *Sixteen-String Jack, the Noble Hearted Highwayman* 19 nos.<br />Illustrated Wrapper gives title *The Life and Adventures of Jack Rann<br />Sixteen-String Jack* London : A. Ritchie, 6, Red Lion-court, Fleet-<br />street, E.C. Nos. 1 & 2, price one penny. Splendid colour Plate<br />Gratis. (Ono)<br /><br />My guess is that these are two similar titles by two different authors :<br /><br />1846*Tales of Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea with celebrated<br />voyages, amusing tales and anecdotes* Edited by James Lindridge. With<br />illustrations. London : W. M. Clark, 1846. (BM-Block, English Novel.)<br /><br />Tales of Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea: ... with celebrated voyages, amusing tales ... and ... anecdotes. Illustrated with ... engravings ... Edited by J. L. No. 1-59. LINDRIDGE. James<br />London, 1846. 8o.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jwmNgKiz5LUG85ugEojOSPFB7aPc79bH4DKOV2Mz1TDfjwEmP6SwBnM81mi73r7N7BhztooMt6RKA6EA3ObE6xUJ6nJQiVjpMhlPj1FHKjvCqcBdXIWptkiNYgvF-2K7kpaebxG3pzQ/s1600-h/merry1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 244px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jwmNgKiz5LUG85ugEojOSPFB7aPc79bH4DKOV2Mz1TDfjwEmP6SwBnM81mi73r7N7BhztooMt6RKA6EA3ObE6xUJ6nJQiVjpMhlPj1FHKjvCqcBdXIWptkiNYgvF-2K7kpaebxG3pzQ/s400/merry1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303922794786185522" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Tales of shipwrecks and other disasters at sea ... Embellished with engravings from drawings by E. Landells.<br />BINGLEY. Thomas<br />London: Charles Tilt, 1839. pp. xvi, 194: plates. 8o.<br /><br />Tales of Shipwrecks and other Disasters at Sea ... New edition. [With plates.]<br />BINGLEY. Thomas<br />pp. vi. 191. T. J. Allman: London, 1864. 16o.<br /><br />Tales of Shipwrecks and other Disasters at Sea Boston : Tappan & Dennet, 1842. BINGLEY. Thomas<br /><br />Tales about Travellers: their perils, adventures and discoveries ... With engravings.<br />BINGLEY. Thomas<br />pp. viii. 194. Charles Tilt: London, 1840. 16o.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS24BcyQh7F2EqdjUQkHKV0wXhSn8R3xsPK9x80es0VxCvZQg2N1_sS-SkSAJPnxh2qT3QQCqc9keV0eCw9qQ2xRUiB11hDqEag4y1E-6lsEBB4a3KiqGmpC9UV2uwhIveHO0unRfZJg4/s1600-h/merry2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS24BcyQh7F2EqdjUQkHKV0wXhSn8R3xsPK9x80es0VxCvZQg2N1_sS-SkSAJPnxh2qT3QQCqc9keV0eCw9qQ2xRUiB11hDqEag4y1E-6lsEBB4a3KiqGmpC9UV2uwhIveHO0unRfZJg4/s400/merry2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303922673166892898" border="0" /></a>john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-69136887405450098792008-09-08T13:16:00.000-07:002008-09-08T13:20:08.128-07:00Der Dough vas Haunted<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSaTm1Z3PQDHGfzgFQP6zg-lK_WdXdN1sEsUKwbN-QA14Ra8_6hDWaKBrQEXnypmMNxBzbsZ_UxOTqd59pHyPBf5ef4YXV4bwnGY79j8aFDebS9qzUSTNWuBDqZVVmipMTr26KUxfMhl8/s1600-h/katzies.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSaTm1Z3PQDHGfzgFQP6zg-lK_WdXdN1sEsUKwbN-QA14Ra8_6hDWaKBrQEXnypmMNxBzbsZ_UxOTqd59pHyPBf5ef4YXV4bwnGY79j8aFDebS9qzUSTNWuBDqZVVmipMTr26KUxfMhl8/s400/katzies.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243747161189294594" border="0" /></a><br /><br />February 19, 1918. Of course Dirks had nothing to do with Hearst's organization at this date. The Canadian editor's practice was to write the topper information. Thus Walter Allman's 'American Home' became 'Canadian Home.' Must be John Campbell Cory.john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-32430108325013576002008-09-04T17:11:00.000-07:002008-09-04T18:29:24.937-07:00Katzies by Opper?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6XL0MKobBmqHezRTEP5na6ypCLSuPx18heR90Xr-2u6zsHck8Zt0LIGLGSSvC58mZqi65_khf4d7JnF2puXfRmvel-3ut-nHLf6YlGcRZhng_BxUXtlauaPjba1hUSNGjoAKt6XUK5CQ/s1600-h/opperkatz.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6XL0MKobBmqHezRTEP5na6ypCLSuPx18heR90Xr-2u6zsHck8Zt0LIGLGSSvC58mZqi65_khf4d7JnF2puXfRmvel-3ut-nHLf6YlGcRZhng_BxUXtlauaPjba1hUSNGjoAKt6XUK5CQ/s320/opperkatz.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242323403942060098" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I have heard that Frederick Burr Opper ghost-penciled (but did not ink) a Katzies page for Dirks. Both the African-American and the Katzies faces in the second panel have that Hooligan look, very much like Opper's work.john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-16192370984523242202008-09-04T15:37:00.000-07:002008-09-04T15:44:37.168-07:00Hitt and Runn by "Hitt" 1917<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyUUZ0RtkttRL_Zt6iND4KlxzywP2rtD1H3tzxFws0F_efEcKSJNOVMbvIjab0dHptxrlHSWQGh__6rYqZ9ranU5hS-DYVGy_xytnEobjaiIdFNW_7Hy_Cns082xN62Wd3r5hrH4-U23U/s1600-h/Untitled-Scanned-01.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyUUZ0RtkttRL_Zt6iND4KlxzywP2rtD1H3tzxFws0F_efEcKSJNOVMbvIjab0dHptxrlHSWQGh__6rYqZ9ranU5hS-DYVGy_xytnEobjaiIdFNW_7Hy_Cns082xN62Wd3r5hrH4-U23U/s320/Untitled-Scanned-01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242300015047618946" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Hitt and Runn by "Hitt" (Oscar Hitt?)<br /><br />Hitt drew "Bud Fisher" almost better than Bud Fisher and added a touch of George Herriman and Cliff Sterrett to boot. Dates on top of strips.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYdP3oAOD-fkx2k7T2y51j3ooUHYLShM9wrJ28iZJhi-bfMotzQwdwa7lB_eNOpuz4BMBAZNVZ87zWvOPSD1_s2isNtG0Kb3CnfLACg3K45msrjNvlo8vaXbTcbjCIIpA9Qq1OcSuIdnc/s1600-h/Untitled-Scanned-02.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYdP3oAOD-fkx2k7T2y51j3ooUHYLShM9wrJ28iZJhi-bfMotzQwdwa7lB_eNOpuz4BMBAZNVZ87zWvOPSD1_s2isNtG0Kb3CnfLACg3K45msrjNvlo8vaXbTcbjCIIpA9Qq1OcSuIdnc/s320/Untitled-Scanned-02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242299898783007538" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" 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{parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzfmBgaLIMR3vUrUzb9F4jnqoYXz8VNO95Kpx6g67bbVQhfRUkNLsSMUk-7NDBxIM3xI_NSzx9F4RA7OMpPCPTpudt_YoxuECQ3yVUBc1NTFs1Ae6WjRPBj5t6x0EwD7FWYtyPFeUqeCU/s1600-h/Untitled-Scanned-08.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzfmBgaLIMR3vUrUzb9F4jnqoYXz8VNO95Kpx6g67bbVQhfRUkNLsSMUk-7NDBxIM3xI_NSzx9F4RA7OMpPCPTpudt_YoxuECQ3yVUBc1NTFs1Ae6WjRPBj5t6x0EwD7FWYtyPFeUqeCU/s320/Untitled-Scanned-08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242299398467044290" border="0" /></a>john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-48818931932910533192008-09-04T14:47:00.001-07:002008-09-04T18:28:18.690-07:00Shenanigan Kids<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjBVoSNLOM39zMVxdzuKVyVmxyqwBnCay7Tlks_HkVQWWqXTpX9IfCVxsO8PAy6O0HK9edoAMSuLloTc_HEZSwDhonTrJM7SA4nXnyotGSGMasaT_pBWo0dd-MSz0F813dIUNBsRtB90o/s1600-h/top.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242286537101726386" style="" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjBVoSNLOM39zMVxdzuKVyVmxyqwBnCay7Tlks_HkVQWWqXTpX9IfCVxsO8PAy6O0HK9edoAMSuLloTc_HEZSwDhonTrJM7SA4nXnyotGSGMasaT_pBWo0dd-MSz0F813dIUNBsRtB90o/s320/top.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The <a href="http://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2008/09/eleven-daily-katzies-1917.html">Katzies</a> daily turned into the Shenanigan Kids about October 23, 1918 and was still running January 3, 1919.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOR6iloUra-Ck-di1mXb53-fNauwpLqzI2B9C8q7_rm95zd8V4U4VCUld8a8Z-tSVH7BRk06wDkusvNsmXV3rR6vo1FkatA9KYIk_T1ScNbTw-f6qFxT7yozdzLBfhY_ZrRupEgWABnPw/s1600-h/Untitled-Scanned-01.jpg"><img 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adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-8134651697332024922008-09-04T12:39:00.001-07:002008-09-04T12:43:40.000-07:00The Katzies are Coming !<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXi-Gxsv69j9tbppm-AKPWVu5IVumYFAd8aInjKTdz2-cfVBt6NUabhay2o6bqE4zrpOvduniL4kn1EmcmMGGQFKbvypFjUgnLHYUq08zJz6xFF89GTWAYmyejtF8HBK0DUP2_fjKLISk/s1600-h/Untitled-Scanned-01.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242253869238087010" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXi-Gxsv69j9tbppm-AKPWVu5IVumYFAd8aInjKTdz2-cfVBt6NUabhay2o6bqE4zrpOvduniL4kn1EmcmMGGQFKbvypFjUgnLHYUq08zJz6xFF89GTWAYmyejtF8HBK0DUP2_fjKLISk/s320/Untitled-Scanned-01.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />May 28, 1917-June 1, 1917 Winnipeg Evening Tribune.<br /><br /><a 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Smith</a> photo-realist cartoons appeared in The Editor's Drawer section of Harper's Magazine during 1913-1914.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_5TrQFfLvk_IX8OiPJ8BKm9TNBVv4rltG1ba4E1vhIuYbr21oxuW61SZ6Au_50hjbk2mYIybgalXhO_rwTalF7xYux6sk_ewEBqj3FFAGLHigUQnx9tWWOLR8V4SriIxwOPvutHRyQFY/s1600-h/Untitled-Scanned-02.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_5TrQFfLvk_IX8OiPJ8BKm9TNBVv4rltG1ba4E1vhIuYbr21oxuW61SZ6Au_50hjbk2mYIybgalXhO_rwTalF7xYux6sk_ewEBqj3FFAGLHigUQnx9tWWOLR8V4SriIxwOPvutHRyQFY/s320/Untitled-Scanned-02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238217465806870978" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwbaf4PAUPX3NVsLf6BJw8ueEjmcJ3wKFyx-8cNSradgdl8py675pqfBH1AP0rGgoJB2m4ANoCusECz3zlFHqdnm8cpunJ_e-9rK_tYcYGvqD9H-TSGTP4W0Kh46S8PbkTMOoic5WVn1Q/s320/Untitled-Scanned-15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237745687109092402" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNUL1Zt0zpkh8AjL4aOcUFMulo5qa7tKoezmP0XE0VmQ4gOcP3W9rTJ5wUvYomnBXnll52jsbSgERptDjDdZ0aOe7WKT4-z7h5ezxJFFqLo-yWHwiYntJt_-u9ef-I4Wg4MIqUK2myNg0/s1600-h/Untitled-Scanned-16.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNUL1Zt0zpkh8AjL4aOcUFMulo5qa7tKoezmP0XE0VmQ4gOcP3W9rTJ5wUvYomnBXnll52jsbSgERptDjDdZ0aOe7WKT4-z7h5ezxJFFqLo-yWHwiYntJt_-u9ef-I4Wg4MIqUK2myNg0/s320/Untitled-Scanned-16.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237745442000833362" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Bottom strip by <a href="http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/">C. E. Toles</a> from the Winnipeg Free Press March 2, 1901<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4huD-FupzyAY4xlhTYZGhx1UKkrSGfRw_AqmIz4yO4RcQJyIZDbmWTOlSGHEicCyQy_cwj9OwXSTHa5qGdOkSgn-So7E98EFmmDuf-jGrgrK0kTotJNboYBLoKhDiED_-351kvPqWEOQ/s1600-h/Untitled-Scanned-17.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4huD-FupzyAY4xlhTYZGhx1UKkrSGfRw_AqmIz4yO4RcQJyIZDbmWTOlSGHEicCyQy_cwj9OwXSTHa5qGdOkSgn-So7E98EFmmDuf-jGrgrK0kTotJNboYBLoKhDiED_-351kvPqWEOQ/s320/Untitled-Scanned-17.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237745128765557266" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Visit Andy Konkykru's <a href="http://bugpowder.com/andy/">Early Comics</a> for a historical treat.john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-18531750932793924422008-08-22T06:57:00.000-07:002011-02-23T11:26:35.308-08:00C. E. Toles and Toronto Saturday Night<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1bdAGviYna9CaFnDv1M56-qRHQTRfJhjc_iD_lqO1RjF4HgLueeeOzxouplNPybuFmFXAzgAR-kB_eDcr_ZD_3-Dr6XNzxyYoVTGjGJ-Z_TIXZQ63xsy8vCFj0Ox21AvqKAGPfwOPsY4/s1600/toles.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 276px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1bdAGviYna9CaFnDv1M56-qRHQTRfJhjc_iD_lqO1RjF4HgLueeeOzxouplNPybuFmFXAzgAR-kB_eDcr_ZD_3-Dr6XNzxyYoVTGjGJ-Z_TIXZQ63xsy8vCFj0Ox21AvqKAGPfwOPsY4/s400/toles.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541683084283020978" /></a><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1bdAGviYna9CaFnDv1M56-qRHQTRfJhjc_iD_lqO1RjF4HgLueeeOzxouplNPybuFmFXAzgAR-kB_eDcr_ZD_3-Dr6XNzxyYoVTGjGJ-Z_TIXZQ63xsy8vCFj0Ox21AvqKAGPfwOPsY4/s1600/toles.JPG"></a><br />Toronto Saturday Night was first published in the year 1887, in Toronto, Ontario, and is still publishing to this day as a magazine. The blurb on their website claims “a unique and intriguing perspective on our national life in politics and power, sex and crime, entertainment and culture, arts and literature, style and design.”<br /><br />The first issue, which resembled a newspaper more than a journal, was dated December 3,1887, and featured serials, theatre, music, book reviews, society columns, jokes and gossip, but there was something new and important in it’s pages as well, single and multi-paneled caption cartoons.<br /><br />The cartoons were drawn from sources all over the world. Americans with luminous names like Opper, Kemble and A. B. Frost were most prominent, with material bought or borrowed from Puck, Judge, Life and Harpers’ Weekly. Cartoons from British newspapers and journals and the German Fliegende Blatter were published more infrequently.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKDJenjbU93DuJBokVuNp7qMbsaCDACrj623ojRHvhEhnhfcvncfg66txabEAcBeb9c-qzUDBu-FlveUhQ-pIzpXBqe_i5cZ8-OAoMzvdlh9zogNZtB_etGyCZ1Z8LoBxtfIoWy22IH4U/s1600-h/toles2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237341374735024130" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKDJenjbU93DuJBokVuNp7qMbsaCDACrj623ojRHvhEhnhfcvncfg66txabEAcBeb9c-qzUDBu-FlveUhQ-pIzpXBqe_i5cZ8-OAoMzvdlh9zogNZtB_etGyCZ1Z8LoBxtfIoWy22IH4U/s320/toles2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The June, 29, 1895 issue of TSN printed a four-panel caption strip, ‘The Dog’s Revenge’ in which a dog makes good use of firecrackers tied to his tail to light up a box full of fireworks and send them to explode on top of two urchin tormentors. Like the early American strips by Opper, the strip was printed vertically. The three characters moved thru the panels against a blank background and still the panels had depth and perspective. It was signed by C. E. Toles. Two Toles caption comics appeared in that issue and Toles kept the funny coming all through 1895.<br /><br />Toles was an American cartoonist and his cartoons originated in the New York Herald. His subjects were the topics of the day ; bicycles, bloomers, cops and bums. The strips, varying from 2, 3, 4, 5 and six panels, contained a population of Irish cops, Irish tramps, Irish cooks, comic ‘darkies’, newspaper vendors, telegraph urchins, cannibals and shoeshine boys.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYVZ-ZHwebHFEjc9WH16Pt8Xdw_4JlHEDDURHg1ulGiY0mSxj2eGDrgpLTAGMON7vxP4naazmrLSfaCZDmGwn9HfuY8s8LH7ilk45mM0k-ZWc6meFefAQkJssYJbOOP-2k4gqvMgOMJOk/s1600-h/toles3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237341306892947698" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYVZ-ZHwebHFEjc9WH16Pt8Xdw_4JlHEDDURHg1ulGiY0mSxj2eGDrgpLTAGMON7vxP4naazmrLSfaCZDmGwn9HfuY8s8LH7ilk45mM0k-ZWc6meFefAQkJssYJbOOP-2k4gqvMgOMJOk/s320/toles3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />An officious cop berates passersby in ‘The Bicycle Policeman,’ a single-panel shows 4 tramps and a dog sitting on a wall under the caption ‘Real Roadside Flowers,’ the Climber Brothers from a circus rescue Nellie Golder from a third floor hotel fire by forming a human ladder in ‘A Thrilling Escape.’ Toles must have been enjoying himself hugely, each issue was filled with his cartoons.<br /><br />December 21, 1895 ‘Christmas Greetings’, a one-panel, pictured the bespectacled artist , one hand on his waist the other on his chin, bent forward, surrounded by a circle of his character types in bubbles, cops, bums, blacks and messenger boys.<br /><br />Single-panel cartoons by Toles and others also filled the paper’s empty spaces. Wherever there was a blank spot there was a Toles cartoon. He drew animals, pet parrots, alley dogs and hungry cats. Occasionally he drew comics with a jungle background. ’A Suggestion For the Next Bicycle Show’ (TSN) has an Englishman on a bicycle chased by cannibals, (one wearing a flour sack) while the one-panel ‘Football in Darkest Africa’ (TES) had an ostrich who plays football with a lion, tiger, kangaroo, camel, elephant, parrot, rhino, boa constrictor and monkey.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUGJAOCedgHxGUynWgpZGJDHCYgi7h0yBY27lrM1d8BMDevIFSi4VDyLQiaVBMQPH8Pw4IgQhCnGIM99-QQYTVqav2KCXrzdC_JG2u9TOcRJ45KLqTiqQYCKfEvGEbO_D7LEqzxNgCvuA/s1600-h/toles4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237341224135595058" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUGJAOCedgHxGUynWgpZGJDHCYgi7h0yBY27lrM1d8BMDevIFSi4VDyLQiaVBMQPH8Pw4IgQhCnGIM99-QQYTVqav2KCXrzdC_JG2u9TOcRJ45KLqTiqQYCKfEvGEbO_D7LEqzxNgCvuA/s320/toles4.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Toles began a series of illustrations that were printed on the front cover. To that point photographs or paintings of well-known personages had the front page. Toles cartoons also appeared in the Toronto Evening Star which would later be responsible for the Canadian Star Weekly, a weekly magazine containing a comic supplement of American comic strips. To this date they had only printed one or two odd crude single-panels.<br /><br />Toles drew the first caption strip to appear in the paper. His first vertical caption strip was ‘Peeler Ike’s Reward’, January 9, 1896, in which a millionaire is robbed twice in 4 panels. Soon he was joined by Americans Archer, Lucas, W. M. Goodes, and C. A. David. David and Archer had been fellow caption-strippers for Toronto Saturday Night.<br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt784WhE63PJFEmdm49Qy85d_xFCnSsjDR6C7vZW9rDXkXhbHz4e-kuvwBrHK-u1EIUQaF54tOFMPjUrnBs2kAhCKkESWmrIzjDqk1qxu2_OhnfyeBgrPNZFjCnezZU4HQ8-JysMPb6Vs/s1600-h/toles5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237341132963109474" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt784WhE63PJFEmdm49Qy85d_xFCnSsjDR6C7vZW9rDXkXhbHz4e-kuvwBrHK-u1EIUQaF54tOFMPjUrnBs2kAhCKkESWmrIzjDqk1qxu2_OhnfyeBgrPNZFjCnezZU4HQ8-JysMPb6Vs/s320/toles5.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />His characters remained the same and again a bucketful of humour appeared until, fittingly, he drew the last cartoon in the Star, a one-panel cartoon featuring coloured people. No more would appear until 1905, when pages of Chips, Funny Wonder, Puck and Life cartoons appeared on humour pages, eventually giving way to the chromo platinum comic strips of Outcault, Dirks and Opper.<br /><br />Talented Toles produced a large amount of work in a very short period of time. During the 18 months from June, 29, 1895 to December 24, 1896 (the day of his last Toronto Evening Star cartoon) in at least two Toronto papers, a largely unknown and forgotten cartoonist filled every available space he came across with laughter and slapstick.</div><div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Ov-6fC4SzhgZ7Lw9wFelinYhpa9Ekt_crceL1MxR0TLEnVyU_BwNP6NjbTstDa71IDPlA2hwjEPwIyVjxcBgIj1gD0fRY6Fa0aEurYXyiFM1vdZZpRijXgdLFypbghMh2tQG-2ZoNkU/s1600-h/toles6.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237341070576075442" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Ov-6fC4SzhgZ7Lw9wFelinYhpa9Ekt_crceL1MxR0TLEnVyU_BwNP6NjbTstDa71IDPlA2hwjEPwIyVjxcBgIj1gD0fRY6Fa0aEurYXyiFM1vdZZpRijXgdLFypbghMh2tQG-2ZoNkU/s320/toles6.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div></div></div><div><br /></div>john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-87015445514992261782008-06-15T11:36:00.000-07:002008-06-15T11:48:07.588-07:00Tom Browne (1897-1910)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjTt3OCrgcO7JPUud9qrA0edQCy8lVnEJLiwP45BiQqJ_yfHhbscE0nABXHTd9QfO6xGV9qysxBiXUs_dBaaj2d-nSHHzrR8C3JNeISzr-FNIwMJ8nYXODkS8FywsWlSlcP1hl7Vqi5SA/s1600-h/tom1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjTt3OCrgcO7JPUud9qrA0edQCy8lVnEJLiwP45BiQqJ_yfHhbscE0nABXHTd9QfO6xGV9qysxBiXUs_dBaaj2d-nSHHzrR8C3JNeISzr-FNIwMJ8nYXODkS8FywsWlSlcP1hl7Vqi5SA/s320/tom1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212181061910882290" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Tom Browne Artist and Man by R. S. Warren Bell, Strand Magazine 1910<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7FjOPSQGCtVLCF3SbA9TGv3_A0lbGgISOkNY3N7_udZkISy08DE8ll8wM9Z9O8oOlDsysXWRPFL-KJw147-kqkzacpXImASovSQwzAmSDSKsgoVm-SBnAK7mDTQP-9qrc28Q8YjrveOo/s1600-h/tb1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7FjOPSQGCtVLCF3SbA9TGv3_A0lbGgISOkNY3N7_udZkISy08DE8ll8wM9Z9O8oOlDsysXWRPFL-KJw147-kqkzacpXImASovSQwzAmSDSKsgoVm-SBnAK7mDTQP-9qrc28Q8YjrveOo/s320/tb1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212180851862761138" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-s7AG8M434fZVZQ26Ch4Ei26nXJmnnxnzg2LRaiU0HQBM0iqvYQAyrwdB2esaPiM8QjFyWlFgTSOTPAuC_fgA8Kcg6_1G9QOovty58EH1K38vIqdwXz-Eac8ocDzgLNXZQsk9r-z3ktY/s1600-h/tb2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8nSz2u3LRKePCZffVUuJTnNATcsZRSXeQhPm1QV8V3Nz0cmStclfVHh49S3tHe6CWQgzDDhDx0KRyQkiPnc8CnrOTuwuK_OG_hxh-dqF0xdzjQ6YvsNhmEUuFKjOmBbVLpjfB2qylNQ/s320/tb8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212179115641775122" border="0" /></a>john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-59861281425745050712008-05-08T06:31:00.000-07:002010-09-05T18:52:18.855-07:00Charles Stevens<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1HEyNmT3NJL-0R0Fyvqi2ulZ13mkG1XdjvJmcqQuKBDSHv69RWtKaXtBLpRoB2WDZtROYzQJxF4sFX_tfXFP5vdPhbycD_LwOx3GishyphenhyphenO0obU3p2rJ-suSxQdK3Eru65z_RVNeTzmvP4/s1600-h/arthur.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197999863593189554" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1HEyNmT3NJL-0R0Fyvqi2ulZ13mkG1XdjvJmcqQuKBDSHv69RWtKaXtBLpRoB2WDZtROYzQJxF4sFX_tfXFP5vdPhbycD_LwOx3GishyphenhyphenO0obU3p2rJ-suSxQdK3Eru65z_RVNeTzmvP4/s320/arthur.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />“Ildica’s lacerated shoulder bled so freely that both her own and Flavia's fairer skin were sprinkled with crimson rain….”<br /><br />In the seventies <a href="http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2006/11/charles-stevens.html">Charles Stevens</a> was in great demand as a publisher, editor and writer. He turned to historical fiction with tales of Dark Age Britain; of Cromwell’s time; of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew and the war of the Spanish Armada. He began manufacturing brutal penny dreadful historical serials for the Gentleman’s Journal, Boys of England, Boys Herald, the Sons of Brittania, the Young Briton &c., &c., &c.<br /><br />He was particularly enamoured of the period of the Roman Invasion of Britain. He wrote Caractus, The Champion of the Arena, Caradoc the Briton, Spartacus; or, The Revolt of the Gladiators, The Master of the Lion, Nicias the Spartan, The Roman Standard Bearer, and The Sentinel of Pompeii.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8grjRHVZEVcqCzZrDn5k1XkmMiZS2lTG4vahmhK3M3qvhUqX2uX7qriv_X2yc6rgS_LnMZuQVcaBgO3qAWeev-Y9HPibRSSjiAnuVZ-74RGh3uO0JvemsDAHB_KruuKTim9dM5mYzsH0/s1600-h/arthur2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197999781988810914" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8grjRHVZEVcqCzZrDn5k1XkmMiZS2lTG4vahmhK3M3qvhUqX2uX7qriv_X2yc6rgS_LnMZuQVcaBgO3qAWeev-Y9HPibRSSjiAnuVZ-74RGh3uO0JvemsDAHB_KruuKTim9dM5mYzsH0/s320/arthur2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Old Boy's Book Collector Henry Steele once said ; “It was these tales that stimulated my love of history and certainly impressed many dates of important events on my mind, which the ordinary school tuition would have failed to do.”<br /><br />The Roman Standard Bearer, sub-titled A Tale of Britain’s First Invasion, begins in Rome where two of the gladiators, a Briton, Glaucus, and a Roman, Claudius, form a warm friendship in the arena. The story then follows their adventures in Britain where Caesar’s legions are startled by the sight of naked Britons with “stalwart bodies and sturdy limbs, which were tattooed with quaint devices of birds, beasts, reptiles, trees and flowers, from chest to ankle.”<br /><br />Stevens heroes were no longer boys, they were bloodthirsty men with facial hair, and though the women were sold as slaves and sacrificed to the bloody gods they were the hard-boiled equal of the men in the arena ;<br /><br />“Then the beautiful blonde suddenly shot out a lightning blow straight from her round dimpled shoulder, which the brunette avoided by quickly sinking on her knee and letting it pass over her head; but in an instant she was back on her feet again, and ere her antagonist could recover her guard, her steel-plated cestus came crashing down on her exposed chest.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH00ENgHiOILFPTyvMr3nuvqzi2jBRnMsr6-23GB4ftlnssQ5JAMwHfei8WppwWsWV470BB7b41YePfQvrCVo-RrQfAs8Q7FqdXNsupO0RfNLD5HBtfjpSBfb_b94E3l3V0Hp4IG6TagI/s1600-h/roman.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197999704679399570" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH00ENgHiOILFPTyvMr3nuvqzi2jBRnMsr6-23GB4ftlnssQ5JAMwHfei8WppwWsWV470BB7b41YePfQvrCVo-RrQfAs8Q7FqdXNsupO0RfNLD5HBtfjpSBfb_b94E3l3V0Hp4IG6TagI/s320/roman.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The dull thud of the iron on the soft flesh could be heard in every part of the vast theatre.The stricken girl gave a short quick gasp, and the blood momentarily left her cheeks, as she reeled backwards a yard or more, but still maintained her footing.<br /><br />Then she rallied and sprang forward to renew the contest, avoiding two blows by rapid movements of her agile body; she caught another on her round right arm, and disregarding the pain, she passed her opponent’s guard and rained a fierce stroke on her beautiful shoulder that cut through to the bone.<br /><br />Then, with their naked, glowing busts pressed tightly against each other, and their white rounded arms encircling each other’s bodies in no gentle or loving grip, they wrestled for the mastery. To and fro they reeled panting with excitement and anger but in every twist and turn showing some new line of beauty in their undulating swaying forms, so exquisitely modeled and of such rare symmetry.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitBpfLtelGC1Jip00MLg_z3BnifKUCuFdFGtp1rvyQnSzoY9-VVUYRyh6J1Lv9XNbqu9uSaKgGI1PLMw5mFLtE6S4uWqMoaSGH5uqXadY8qZYeKRS6NSrxNtnr6i2oRwpz6x-8hMj4Ysw/s1600-h/roman2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197999627369988226" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitBpfLtelGC1Jip00MLg_z3BnifKUCuFdFGtp1rvyQnSzoY9-VVUYRyh6J1Lv9XNbqu9uSaKgGI1PLMw5mFLtE6S4uWqMoaSGH5uqXadY8qZYeKRS6NSrxNtnr6i2oRwpz6x-8hMj4Ysw/s320/roman2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Sometimes Ildica would, with a hand pressed against each of her adversary’s white shoulders, thrust her body back until ‘twas hard to imagine that it could bend further without snapping the spine asunder, and then her strength would give way, and their chests would come together with a dull thud, and Flavia would quickly throw a milk-white exquisitely modelled leg, bare to the hip, around the darker-skinned, but equally well-proportioned limb of the Lady Ildica, and tighten the coil till every little blue vein would show through the creamy skin, in a vain attempt to hurl her on the sand.<br /><br />Ildica’s lacerated shoulder bled so freely that both her own and Flavia's fairer skin were sprinkled with crimson rain, and the blonde’s lovely chest already showed ten leaden-coloured bruises made by Ildica’s cestus, but yet neither thought of confessing herself vanquished and they continued to clutch each other’s yielding frames tighter and tighter until each seemed to feel two hearts beating in her body, and their rounded bosoms seemed bursting with the compression.”<br /><br />When virginal Stella is about to be sacrificed by the Arch-druid in a huge wicker-man, and awaits her fate as a prisoner in a cage in the Den of Maniacs, Stevens paints the scene in purple-bruised prose :<br /><br />“Naked beauty shrinking from a blow or from contact with anything that is vile or unclean, is sure to be graceful in the extreme, for an elegant pose is somehow, by mere accident, certain to be obtained in such a case, and so it was with Stella.<br /><br />Her beauteous form, so perfect in its natural outlines, gleamed like a marble statue in the red murky light, and her rounded limbs, creamy skin, snowy neck, and heaving bosoms made her resemble a veritable goddess.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsHWnVqv4XhPGBeQuyU3Gi3TDyUj2bE9xk1Z4HPVUUVSePym9jLIScMFzvU6rHXQOlphpj710CmTILo8m9ihppJFz-MxPWO3HZnvPi8ArPUy32o6GUs4wSRTK0iXBd_iRg7_ttFulH9hY/s1600-h/corsair.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197999524290773106" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsHWnVqv4XhPGBeQuyU3Gi3TDyUj2bE9xk1Z4HPVUUVSePym9jLIScMFzvU6rHXQOlphpj710CmTILo8m9ihppJFz-MxPWO3HZnvPi8ArPUy32o6GUs4wSRTK0iXBd_iRg7_ttFulH9hY/s320/corsair.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />A woman’s beauty will seldom excite pity, however, in another female breast, and so the three harpies before named sprang at the fair Amazon simultaneously and endeavoured to clutch some portion of her delicate frame.Two of them were promptly felled to the floor by Cassibelan, who was happily chained sufficiently close to his sister to be able to render her some assistance, but the third, advancing from quite an opposite direction extended to the full length of her chain and fastened her teeth in Stella’s dimpled back.<br /><br />The poor girl uttered a cry of pain and sprang in an opposite direction, but only to bring herself within reach of another crouching female form, who seized a white leg and bit deep into her quivering thigh, causing the red blood to spout forth.In vain Stella strove to tear herself away while the length of Cassibelan’s chain would not permit of his rendering any aid in this case.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigK2eUd7Nri2EM0CRuFo0-V9CkZkiTR5g31YL0fAXd_5pWECzTVLMt1AHY6CwYOFfR4ymZZY1x7CO5D1zfrtslAob3LidvQjFQnZ87HMdCVz8UNe3ns6LPBEgdyd2q84X81b-m9LydXGE/s1600-h/armada.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197999408326656098" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigK2eUd7Nri2EM0CRuFo0-V9CkZkiTR5g31YL0fAXd_5pWECzTVLMt1AHY6CwYOFfR4ymZZY1x7CO5D1zfrtslAob3LidvQjFQnZ87HMdCVz8UNe3ns6LPBEgdyd2q84X81b-m9LydXGE/s320/armada.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Her assailant rendered mad by thirst and hunger, clung to her beautiful limb until her hooked nails were buried deep in the broad hip, and sucked a way at her rich young blood as though it had been the most delicious nectar of Olympus.<br /><br />The Amazon writhed, and trembled, and shrieked ; her flesh actually quivered with the agony she was enduring, but with her little fists she rained blow after blow upon the head of her cannibal assailant, and at length thereby forced her to desist.<br /><br />The woman with a gasp of satisfaction and relief, relaxed her terrible clutch with teeth and nails, and sank back dreamily back as though in a happy sleep, while Stella, painfully dragging away her injured limb, sunk fainting upon the foul and blood-stained floor of the den.”<br /><br />It was thrilling serials such as this that caused Henry Steele in 1934 to burst out in praise and poetry about the Sentinel of Pompeii and it’s author, Charley Stevens;<br /><br />This yarn though it was meant for lads,<br />Still holds them now that they are dads,<br />This tale of old boy’s journal fame,<br />Was given alack ! No author’s name,<br />I think, however, the story throughout,<br />Was by Charles Stevens without doubt,<br />Years ago, a novel written,<br />Was by that classic writer, Lytton,<br />Stevens doubtless was inspired,<br />By this and his ambition fired,<br />So he wrote “The Sentinel” there and then,<br />A noble story from an able pen.john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-20832266661063845252008-04-28T18:07:00.000-07:002008-04-28T18:14:37.063-07:00The Golden Amazon<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIhhyphenhyphenzi2qstQ7Qz_3qnSC1OPn0IAqUzbZD9LXFXzd8LdVEGEKu7nItsA-NF4a6ahOnkSi1SIum9cem8tQ0umyDQFUw5FfnxHS_YZiJXpMil1T_8lZ9MKFuqPJbili-Bd66AxOIgRSpD38/s1600-h/Amethyst+City.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrZmi0u5nfgCflfSk2UyauDV02588NvKBlF7nE5p_h3vAy-4Q-8oiwMvgX4CdtrEcHsNY2faZacA6hNIuLKnMJNkcbjmAqbOkTs6qc7plll0LrvxRKMYlOO8vKCSJl23JyTJXN_GqDpd8/s1600-h/sala.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190213773511581714" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrZmi0u5nfgCflfSk2UyauDV02588NvKBlF7nE5p_h3vAy-4Q-8oiwMvgX4CdtrEcHsNY2faZacA6hNIuLKnMJNkcbjmAqbOkTs6qc7plll0LrvxRKMYlOO8vKCSJl23JyTJXN_GqDpd8/s320/sala.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />George Augustus Sala, Victorian journalist, December 16, 1891. Judy. Celebrities very much at home. Caricature of Buffalo Bill Cody below.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioMFjFTozT7lj3cSXQlixcPlfN0rZ_9RvxEuEdJHc_jLJeJ1zeXUMnpaPXK4U9h5amZOw6Xqgd5kX9f2ygPJF7YxBnzyojLPD_VEP1Yo4AjbvLN9hFrqGhxyoiAqzNQndvJ6qhfR14flM/s1600-h/cody.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190213679022301186" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioMFjFTozT7lj3cSXQlixcPlfN0rZ_9RvxEuEdJHc_jLJeJ1zeXUMnpaPXK4U9h5amZOw6Xqgd5kX9f2ygPJF7YxBnzyojLPD_VEP1Yo4AjbvLN9hFrqGhxyoiAqzNQndvJ6qhfR14flM/s320/cody.jpg" border="0" /></a>john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-69640525992192833722008-04-15T06:52:00.001-07:002008-04-15T06:55:38.253-07:00Jean Valjean<a 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adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-11694598692932297472008-04-15T06:46:00.000-07:002008-04-15T06:50:43.264-07:00Grimm's Fairy Tales<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3LspJwzKK8Z-YDlseaAvhdORkZyjwNUQbr7CfDCVTeUDgmzvd7oineNLbkJFoTmCTg5ptPZ1AKFipgSLL8hIbN3h-fDa-f3NhlIj78Bn8npXQlhiLUcBr8CQnX7nuVFR_Z3jd7GiFDLM/s1600-h/gruelle+large.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189468549441085074" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3LspJwzKK8Z-YDlseaAvhdORkZyjwNUQbr7CfDCVTeUDgmzvd7oineNLbkJFoTmCTg5ptPZ1AKFipgSLL8hIbN3h-fDa-f3NhlIj78Bn8npXQlhiLUcBr8CQnX7nuVFR_Z3jd7GiFDLM/s320/gruelle+large.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a 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adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-38912308891331674992008-04-15T06:41:00.000-07:002008-04-15T06:46:33.076-07:00Hy. Mayer<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT0_07ZAVz-XDaUwvlP5M1Bf2w_fBNqRe0xOXDO_SD4WVbU5FRn1Yc-2BrAWaU89UMnsfEugzDsWJPbs3zyxg4wiLPtlB7xqwB4t8qTuxdMrIxA9mhBN0R5MA-dWoW2Gd_yZWxv2WtMZs/s1600-h/24-25.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189467269540830834" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT0_07ZAVz-XDaUwvlP5M1Bf2w_fBNqRe0xOXDO_SD4WVbU5FRn1Yc-2BrAWaU89UMnsfEugzDsWJPbs3zyxg4wiLPtlB7xqwB4t8qTuxdMrIxA9mhBN0R5MA-dWoW2Gd_yZWxv2WtMZs/s320/24-25.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The Many Inventions of Hy. Mayer by V. Robard, Godey's Magazine Vol. CXXXV No.807 Sept. 1897.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic7Ps-vCjSjd5rZa23Z5FyP_NPGDJgEaOj5WEzLtdGKKPlGFITXzRwZXlxB5o3mzhfZ9Xz224YqCwNwce-SAWr5DcnH1v3ol0TlIwHpmI6HEaEO0YHH_7gp324Km0brT3vHWzEbKeNaCg/s1600-h/26-27.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189467192231419490" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic7Ps-vCjSjd5rZa23Z5FyP_NPGDJgEaOj5WEzLtdGKKPlGFITXzRwZXlxB5o3mzhfZ9Xz224YqCwNwce-SAWr5DcnH1v3ol0TlIwHpmI6HEaEO0YHH_7gp324Km0brT3vHWzEbKeNaCg/s320/26-27.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQVaGHCpqoD3YbzZbU3X3vxfPIeOnoEyfBJU3CJ1SDp4HH8oQ42-SSpY0eXNV0WCbIsoaDFFtRgArGsQslXt3KECvAps9Ozr8G2c3Y2OO_cTYROLa7WpkMOL_AhRf7OxPQZeFhmsRHXXw/s1600-h/28.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189467114922008146" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQVaGHCpqoD3YbzZbU3X3vxfPIeOnoEyfBJU3CJ1SDp4HH8oQ42-SSpY0eXNV0WCbIsoaDFFtRgArGsQslXt3KECvAps9Ozr8G2c3Y2OO_cTYROLa7WpkMOL_AhRf7OxPQZeFhmsRHXXw/s320/28.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-WiUzUBvzZoS4OKlVAW9CMld_7dZWUYzullkU0eord1EFzON43h522kKSWwNxQQPKTEyAxBea1Of_EKunSDtU3O-xwCNJNGays65b1YmfyRThWDv1kqxryq28yIPEJEwb3WTRmbHeB3g/s1600-h/29.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189467054792465986" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-WiUzUBvzZoS4OKlVAW9CMld_7dZWUYzullkU0eord1EFzON43h522kKSWwNxQQPKTEyAxBea1Of_EKunSDtU3O-xwCNJNGays65b1YmfyRThWDv1kqxryq28yIPEJEwb3WTRmbHeB3g/s320/29.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF_48LQiIQYpVQmfCILfvtBnKMtsrGEex8S3a6ze2njDda6wPpnyVCzTuGkt1E9QDuAeElOHaDE7KwuLq1q914xeq_hJ-1ZOSwQZnoa5cFDzFga4DJFFrVVmgyP4HEaIiCOho-djxzAwk/s1600-h/30-31.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189466943123316274" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF_48LQiIQYpVQmfCILfvtBnKMtsrGEex8S3a6ze2njDda6wPpnyVCzTuGkt1E9QDuAeElOHaDE7KwuLq1q914xeq_hJ-1ZOSwQZnoa5cFDzFga4DJFFrVVmgyP4HEaIiCOho-djxzAwk/s320/30-31.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div></div>john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-71396308458631160402008-04-03T19:08:00.000-07:002008-04-03T19:17:44.592-07:00American Judy<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYBZ5T_Ek-zbow7ww3hOd8bQuf0hWYoBp06kgMCIgREC6mZWUtDVOhxmz6w1wFGEersSi71ZPFqm2VIwK9JZqtkyvVMfDQEgnoZBEmkdvIifQXXovu14XEqmRv2A7n2FHAtS0u9jAgDYE/s1600-h/judyamerican.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185206830682868226" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYBZ5T_Ek-zbow7ww3hOd8bQuf0hWYoBp06kgMCIgREC6mZWUtDVOhxmz6w1wFGEersSi71ZPFqm2VIwK9JZqtkyvVMfDQEgnoZBEmkdvIifQXXovu14XEqmRv2A7n2FHAtS0u9jAgDYE/s320/judyamerican.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Judy, New York, N.Y. : Burgess & Stringer, Vol. 1, no. 1 (Nov. 28, 1846)-v. 1, no. 13 (Feb. 20, 1847). Judy was a weekly edited by Henry Grattan Plunkett. <a href="http://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2008/03/street-arabs-of-michael-woolf.html">Michael Woolf's</a> father contributed writing and caricatures.john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-61549765251741338682008-04-02T06:23:00.000-07:002008-04-02T06:31:08.230-07:00Morgyn the Mighty 1951<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4hQZqyUpk3a8mtE3h7yHYCJh3Vb-mDa3OYUnIFDw8lzCU89I_yHFDhBfUwpyMcEfib6DmpzCPJmILbYeoXVaxPZhmEeTTc8bSCzhc7AcY2UUL3xSXk1RSM4iQO9valc3kq6PL7ktCgog/s1600-h/top.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184638864207645122" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4hQZqyUpk3a8mtE3h7yHYCJh3Vb-mDa3OYUnIFDw8lzCU89I_yHFDhBfUwpyMcEfib6DmpzCPJmILbYeoXVaxPZhmEeTTc8bSCzhc7AcY2UUL3xSXk1RSM4iQO9valc3kq6PL7ktCgog/s320/top.jpg" border="0" /></a><br 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Cruikshank folding plate strip from <b>‘The Comic Almanack For 1849,</b>’ George Cruikshank, Second Series, 1844-1853. From a 1912 reprint by Chatto & Windus.</div>
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<b>‘A “Literary Tavern” Visit, with a Peep at Some “Punch” People,’</b> pp.56-64 in <i>‘Lions: Living and Dead; or, Personal recollections of the great and gifted,’</i> by John Ross Dix (1800?-1865,) London, Partridge and Oakey, 1852. </div>
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Four early editors of <i>Punch:</i> <b>Mark Lemon, Shirley Brooks, Tom Taylor</b> and <b>F.C. Burnand</b> (from: <i>The Review of Reviews,</i> 1895, London)</div>
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</div>john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-54519381817827671702008-03-26T09:01:00.000-07:002008-03-26T09:02:43.206-07:00Smokey Stover<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq96Svgl1XSvrs2NkXCdPiq3MZt5M_tal5SO_-qQxR_XKBey26IN1d6tCfv96uToFWuag_3vAtVYP9mPxw_fqHM31YiWQ6SAUwngdez3CiVAWKP17lO2Xvr7mGEhEiHLdwnih4rH0QxVw/s1600-h/smokeymay81955.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182081236952679618" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq96Svgl1XSvrs2NkXCdPiq3MZt5M_tal5SO_-qQxR_XKBey26IN1d6tCfv96uToFWuag_3vAtVYP9mPxw_fqHM31YiWQ6SAUwngdez3CiVAWKP17lO2Xvr7mGEhEiHLdwnih4rH0QxVw/s320/smokeymay81955.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br />Smokey Stover by Bill Holman, May 8, 1955john adcockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02601087030921802835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332919150818553935.post-5701909088514952412008-03-25T10:10:00.000-07:002014-06-21T08:29:14.465-07:00The Wild Boys of London; or, the Children of the Night<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>The first edition of “The Wild Boys of London” was completed in 1866 and bears that date on the title. Book I contains 44 Nos. of 8 pp. each and book II contained 59 Nos., making 103 in all. If your imperfect copy is numbered 1 to 74 consecutively, it is certain that it is the second issue, and the story was that it came to an end suddenly, copies being seized by the police. The second issue was somewhere about 1872. The authorship of the work is unknown. There were no gifts with the first issue.There is no certainty as to the authorship of any of the things which you mention, but G. A. Sala was not the writer of “Charley Wag.” Probably it may have been by C. H. Ross. It was published by H. Lea.</i></span><br />
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<i>Yours Faithfully A. E. Waite.</i></span><br />
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Occultist Arthur Edward Waite was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 2 October 1857 to an American sailor and an English woman. He moved to London when he was two and soon picked up the penny dreadful habit. Jay said Arthur Waite “possesses the finest collection of this class of literature (penny dreadfuls) in the United Kingdom.” Waite’s complete collection was sold circa 1919 to Mr. John Jeffery, a bookseller and his first edition of <i>The Wild Boys of London</i> (NPC as opposed to Farrah’s truncated version) is probably in a private collection.</span><br />
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The Wild Boys of London; or, the Children of the Night</i>, published by the Newsagents Publishing Company is probably the most famous of all penny dreadfuls even though few people have actually read the work. The penny dreadful may well have been the genesis of William Burroughs Wild Boys characters in books with titles like “Naked Lunch,” “The Nova Express,” and “The Ticket That Exploded.” </span><br />
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Burroughs told author Robert Palmer (<i>Rolling Stone</i> 108, May 11, 1972) - “in the wild boys I was really deliberately returning to older styles of writing - quite a bit of it is really 19th century” Burroughs works were an extension of the long tradition of criminal literature that began in the early 19th Century, and he was keenly aware that there was a tradition, that it was still extant in the 20th Century, and that Beat literature (Junkie) was a part of that tradition.</span><br />
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The Ono copy of <i>Wild Boys</i> lacks a title-page but is definitely the edition stopped by the police on issuance of the 74th number, as reported in <i>The Times</i> on December 13, 1877 (p.11). I have a copy of this police-report and it is amusing to read that one news-dealer, (the case was against the retailers not the publishers, a summons was still pending against the proprietor and publisher) a Mr. Wells, 76 years old “indignantly refused to have the books destroyed on the grounds that he was not going to be treated as a child; that worse books were sold every day; and that he was a respectable man, which Mr. Flowers said he could not be if he sold indecent books.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Why the serial was considered indecent is a puzzle. There is some nudity and a scene of flagellation, but such things were common to almost all penny dreadfuls. True the boys are petty criminals, they live off their wits after all, but they are also decent, engaging high-spirited lads with a moral code of their own. They are always ready to help a waif escape from child-stealers or rescue a woman from drowning in the Thames. The real villain here is Mat the Mongrel, who leads Dick Lane's mechanic father astray, first by getting him to join a union, and then when the decent employer is struck, the Mongrel daily leads Dicks father to a life of drunkenness and wife-beating that leads young Dick to wander the streets where he meets the Wild Boys and joins their underground sewer world. The sewers are surprisingly clean in this work compared to the sewers in the books of Edward Ellis (Charles Henry Ross.)</span><br />
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The first boy Dick meets, while passing the doorway of the Victoria Theatre is the Dolphin, a happy dodger with a fondness for penny dreadfuls and melodrama with whom he is already acquainted :</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I am," said the Dolphin, with a laugh, "It's fine. there's Hicks doing the surgeon of Paris; he's got spurs, and such a sword. Pitt's being carried about in a coffin; and Charley Rice was sitting on a post, watching a monkey coming out of chapel."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“The boys, with their wild faces and tattered garments, their bare feet and soiled hands; and, above all, that characteristic keenness of eye, which is peculiar to the London street boy alone.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“They being, just then, in the act of moving forward, were, as a matter of course, tripped up and went full length on their faces.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amongst the illustrations for <i>Wild Boys of London</i> is an oddity, a serious portrait of ... someone. Artist Harry Maguire drew in two styles, serious and humorous, often in the same serial. This portrait is interesting though, could it be F. Farrah, the publisher, (mentioned in the gutter text) NPC manager Edwin Brett or perhaps even the author ? Portraits of characters were not unknown in dreads but this one bears no caption and as illustrated numbers were posted in shop-windows to entice customers it’s difficult to find a selling point to this piece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Waite was correct about Charles Henry Ross authorship of <i>Charley Wag</i> but hazards no guess as to who wrote <i>The Wild Boys of London</i>. The <i>Bookseller</i> (1868) noted the following names in connection with the NPC, Vane St. John, Bracebridge Hemyng, J. Redding Ware, Charles Stevens, W. Thompson Townsend, and John Cecil Stagg, all of who went directly to work on the fledgling <i>Boys of England</i> story paper when the NPC ceased publishing circa 1866-67. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With a list of suspects and plenty of text to compare it was surprisingly easy to identify the author of Wild Boys. I have compared texts from <i>Who shall be Leader?</i> by Vane St. John, <i>Chevy Chase; or, the Battle on the Border</i>, by John Cecil Stagg, and <i>Giles Evergreen; or, Fresh from the Country</i>, by W. T. Townsend, as well as works by Hemyng and Stevens. I checked serials in <i>Reynolds’s Miscellany</i> and <i>Sons of Brittania</i>. My conclusion is that the author of <i>The Wild Boys of London; or, the Children of the Night</i>, was <a href="http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2006/11/vane-st-john.html">Vane Ireton Shaftsbury St. John</a>, born in Edmonton, London, August 19, 1838.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Vane Ireton Shaftesbury St. John (1838-1911) was the youngest of eleven children of James Augustus St. John (born plain James John in Wales) (1795-1875) writer and editor, and Eliza Agar. The elder St. John got his journalistic start writing and editing radical newspapers for Richard Carlile and others. His older brothers, all involved in journalism, were Percy Bolingbroke St. John (“The Blue Dwarf,”) Bayle St. John (“Purple Tints of Paris,”) Sir Spenser Buckingham St. John (“Life in the Forests of the Far East,”) and Horace Stebbing Roscoe St. John (“History of the Indian Archipelago.”)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Vane Ireton St. John worked as an Inland Revenue clerk from 1858 until at least 1867 while moonlighting as an author. Percy B. and Vane Ireton joined hands to produce a weekly story paper, <i>The Parlour Journal</i>, which began with a Christmas number illustrated by “Phiz” (1859) and ended on 30 Aug 1862. <i>The Parlour Journal</i> was published at 184 Fleet Street by Edward Harrison and others. Vane Ireton was insolvent in 1861, living at Charles Street, Hampstead Road. In January 1866 St. John, described as an author and bookseller, declared bankruptcy. His address was Arnold Villas, Ode-sa Road, Forest Gate, formerly, Lamb’s Conduit Street. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This prolific and alcoholic author had 27 children between 1858 and the 1890’s. Vane St. John was author of three 3 volume sensation novels: <i>St. Eustace; or, the hundred-and-one; a novel</i>, 1857, <i>Undercurrents; a novel of our day</i>, 1860, and <i>The Chain of Destiny; a novel</i>, 1862. <i>St. Eustace </i>was published by T. Cautley Newby. His serials appeared in the <i>Parlour Journal, Reynolds’s Miscellany, The London Reader, The Young Englishman, Sons of Brittania, Boys of England, Boys World</i> and<i> Twice a Week</i>. Vane Ireton St. John died at Peckham Rye “in poor circumstances,” on 20 Dec 1911. He was married twice and had seventeen children. (DNB)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Comparing text from titles by Stagg, Stevens, Hemyng, and Townsend (Ware was the only author I have no works to compare with NPC titles) I find none of those “A-hah!’ moments of recognition that I find over and over again in comparing <i>Wild Boys of London</i> to known works of Vane St. John. Further comparison leads to some more tentative attributions of classic penny dreadful titles to V. St. John, to wit; <i>The Boy Detective; or, the Crimes of London</i> ; <i>The Wild Boys of Paris; or, the Mysteries of the Vault of Death</i>, and <i>The Dance of Death; or, the Hangman’s Plot</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Vane Ireton St. John might have been the principal writer on <i>The Boy Detective</i> but halfway through the book there is a change of writers. At this period (1866) St. John (if it really was him) was churning out 8 pages weekly on <i>The Wild Boys of London </i>in addition to <i>Boy Detective</i>. This was not unusual because prolific authors such as C. H. Ross and James Malcolm Rymer often worked on up to 10 different weekly serials at a time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">1864 *<i>The Wild Boys of London; or, the Children of the Night</i>* London: Newsagents’ Publishing Company, 147 Fleet Street. Advertisement in Reynolds Newspaper July 17, 1864. 103 Nos.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">1876 *<i>The Wild Boys of London; or, the Children of the Night</i>* London: F. Farrah, 282, Strand. (Farrah’s name and address appears in the gutters but see above: “Mr. J. Simpson and Mr. F. J. Kelley, printers and publishers, of Shoe-lane, attended before Sir Andrew Lusk, M.P., to an adjourned summons, charging them with printing and publishing an obscene work.” 74 Nos. Suppressed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">The last page had the following Special Notice:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">A New Tale, of startling and thrilling interest, called,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">IVAN THE TERRIBLE;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">OR,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">DARK DEEDS OF NIGHT!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Will be published on Tuesday December 5.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">With No. 3 of this work will be published and given away (Gratis) an Illustrated Story entitled,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">THE GHOST’S HOUSE IN THE LONELY ROAD!</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">1866*<i>Ivan the Terrible; or, Dark Deeds of Night</i>* London: Office, 147 Fleet Street. 34 Nos.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*For the history of the Vice Society prosecution of <i>Wild Boys</i> see <a href="http://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2009/01/penny-numbers-of-obscene-nature.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. See also <a href="http://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2008/11/thieves-literature.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thieves’ Literature</span></a></span><br />
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