Jack Wright and His Prairie Engine -- September 21, 2014

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The October, 1902 issue of the dime novel Pluck and Luck reprinted the 1892 story "Jack Wright and His Prairie Engine; or, Among the Bushmen of Australia" by NONAME.  Luis Senarens wrote a series of science fiction stories about the brilliant inventor.

Stories about brilliant boy inventors like Jack Wright and Frank Reade, Jr are called Edisonades by modern critics. 

Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys:
http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com/2013/07/pulp-45-july-19-2013.html

Be sure to click on the image to see a larger version.  

Pulp #45 -- July 19, 2013

Issue 344 of the dime novel Boys' Star Library featured the story "Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys" by NONAME.  Luis Senarens wrote a series of science fiction stories about the brilliant inventor.  The electric stage is aptly named "Terror."  Be sure to click on the image to see a larger version.  

The image is from a wonderful Stanford University site, "Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls":
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html

Pulp #39 -- January 17, 2013

 

The Steam Man of the Plains returns, this time in the company of Frank Reade, Sr.  This novel was an imitation of his previous appearance in this blog: 

http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/pulp-15-august-19-2010.html