{"id":10305,"date":"2020-08-03T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=10305"},"modified":"2022-09-03T11:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T15:14:52","slug":"fritz-to-the-front-and-dick-turpin-among-the-wreckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2020\/08\/03\/fritz-to-the-front-and-dick-turpin-among-the-wreckers\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Fritz to the Front’ and ‘Dick Turpin: Among the Wreckers’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'Fritz<\/a>I have previously posted on dime-novel reprints from Darren N\u00e9meth<\/strong>‘s Giant Squid Audio Lab Co.<\/a> done via Kickstarter. He has put out three in his Page-Turner Series, along with a reprint of a novelization of a Lon Chaney<\/strong> movie, Outside the Law<\/em> (1920). Then recently a campaign for another in the Page-Turner Series, as well as a British “penny dreadful.”<\/p>\n

Page-Turner Series #4<\/a> reprints Fritz to the Front<\/em>, a dime novel by Edward L. Wheeler<\/strong> that first saw print in 1881 in Beadle’s Half-Dime Library<\/em>, and has been reprinted several times since. This edition was taken from the last reprint, done in 1920. Interestingly, this story is the sequel to a prior story, Fritz, The Bound-Boy Detective<\/em>. As I understand it, Beadle’s Half-Dime Library<\/em> was aimed at boys, rather than the adult readers of Beadle’s Dime Library,<\/em> even printing in a smaller typeface for the younger reader.<\/p>\n

The story is another melodrama, starting Fritz Snyder<\/strong>, a younger European now living in Philadelphia who gets into an adventure on a trip to New Jersey. Fritz is an amateur detective with ventriloquism skills. This will help him in saving the young kidnapped daughter of a rich Irishman, and gives us a strange scene where he makes a severed head talk.<\/p>\n

Readers might be turned off by his thick accent. I thought it strange that Fritz’s ethnicity kept changing, sometimes from page to page, being at times a Jew, a Dutchman, or a German. Was this caused by the various reprinting of the story over the years?<\/p>\n

In addition to this work, the campaign gave us a reprint from the British penny dreadful series featuring Dick Turpin<\/strong>. Penny dreadfuls were similiar to many American dime novel series, being numbered series with a single character. These included series featuring characters such as Claude Duval<\/strong>, Spring-Heeled Jack<\/strong>, Black Bess<\/strong>, Robin Hood<\/strong>, and others.<\/p>\n

\"'Dick<\/a>Dick Turpin was a real-life English highwayman. The Black Bess series was a fictionalized series dealing with him published in 1866-68, and this volume was taken from a later series on Dick Turpin published by Aldine in the early 1900s, in particular #59, Among the Wreckers<\/em>. Aldine’s works were comicbook-size, with nice color covers with cheap pulp paper. I’m not sure how long the series ran, but at had least 170 volumes. This story finds Dick Turpin, having been press-ganged on a British ship, now shipwrecked and with wreckers, outlaws who scavange such ships. I would like to see more of this series.<\/p>\n

Nemeth has setup a website at MovingPictureReprintSeries.com<\/a> and makes available the prior volumes from his Kickstarter campaigns. So if you missed out, you can get the past volumes. The next campaign went live for a volume with five-part story arc of the Alvarez Brothers<\/a><\/strong> from the Old Sleuth’s Own<\/em> dime novel series. I’ve pledged and encourage others to check it out and do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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