Joseph Rainone
The Frank Reade Weekly
featuring Frank Reade Jr.
plus
Early "Science Fiction" in both
the dime novels & story papers
Almond Press
Baldwin, N.Y., U.S.A.
168 pages, 2005
ISSN : 1555-3809
Dedication
Table of contents
Dime novels and story papers : the great escape. by J. Randolph Cox
Introduction
Chapter 1 :
Literary influences on popular fiction
Early magazines
Pre-story papers & magazines
Almanacs
Davy Crockett
Periodicals
Papers with stories
"Dime novels"
Beadle's dime novel
Competing early "dime novels"
Edward S. Ellis and "The steam man"
The "dime novel" era continues
Black & white
Color
The first true story papers
Brother Jonathan's "Obidiah Oldbuck"
The big "Seven"
Robert Bonner
New York Ledger
Street & Smith
New York weekly
Frank Leslie*
Frank Leslie's boys' and girls' weekly
George Munro
The fireside companion
James Elverson
The saturday night
Norman L. Munro
New York family story paper
Blood & Thunder
The boys of New York
Frank Tousey
New York boys weekly
Young men of America
Beadle & Adams
The saturday journal
Chapter 2 :
Dime novel science-fiction. by Everett F. Bleiler
Chapter 3 :
Dederick's "Steam man"
Chapter 4 :
"The Frank Reade Weekly" index
Numbers 1 to 96
Chapter 5 :
Other science fiction in
Dime novels
Story papers
Chapter 3 :
Dederick's "Steam man"
Chapter 4 :
"The Frank Reade Weekly" index
Numbers 1 to 96
Chapter 5 :
Other science fiction in
Dime novels
Story papers
