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dime novels Archives
As a professional and amateur scholar he shared his love and fruits of research in the areas of comics and cartoons; dime novels and "penny dreadfuls" and various genres of folk music.
In recent decades John devoted himself to the web magazine Yesterday's Papers In its electronic pages he published thousands of articles (many by himself[...]
Munro, who some might know was technically the publisher of the first Frank Reade story in Boys of New York, though he and soon-to-be-rival publisher Frank Tousey split not too long after that.
You know how we periodically work ourselves into a fuss over terms like 'comic book' and 'graphic novel' and whether they really fit? Same[...]
Howard, and characters like Conan, Tarzan, and the Shadow — books are being written, and examinations continue to be made.
But when you want to push back farther than that, beyond even the first World War to the dime novels, story papers, and nickel weeklies of the prior decades… it gets somewhat harder[...]