i'm Bill Blackbeard, collector and writer (Sherlock Holmes in America,The Comic Strip Century, etc.). Have been greatly intetested in British popular fiction...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Jun 5, 2001 8:59 am
Welcome from me, Bill. It's great to find another collector of the old bloods and dreadfuls. As I'm sure you know they are are thin on the ground ( or anywhere...
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Kay
the_vampire_akisha@...
Jun 5, 2001 6:10 pm
Just thought I would say hello. I'm not a collector or a particularly knowledgeable expert on bloods (I only know what I've read online or in a few old books)...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
Jun 6, 2001 11:55 pm
Hello Bill, Welcome to the list. Michael told me a few weeks ago that I was the king of penny dreadfuls, but your collection has mine beat, so I pass the crown...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
Jun 7, 2001 12:09 am
Hello Kay, Could you tell me a little more about this Slayer series, and anything else you have written or published? Do you have a website? It's OK to be a...
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Kay
the_vampire_akisha@...
Jun 7, 2001 5:02 pm
Hi Justin: Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on what you collect. I have to admit, I sort of love those lurid old covers and have ever since I found a...
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billblackbeard@...
Jun 11, 2001 10:00 pm
Hi, Justin and/or Michael -- Have either of you a fax number to which I can send several pages of email from me & Yahoo; Iincoherent drivel on their part about...
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billblackbeard@...
Jun 13, 2001 5:42 pm
Hi, Justin and Michael -- Having been amazed when my last desperate communique to reach you all actually landed in the "messages" file at HQ (where two-page...
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billblackbeard@...
Jun 14, 2001 10:10 pm
To relegate my penny blood experience with ye Yahoo minions to other areas of discussion for the time being, here are some responses to queries about items in...
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billblackbeard@...
Jun 16, 2001 2:59 am
Probably the oddest of all penny bloods, both in layout and content, the anonymously authored Springheeled Jack appeared in the l860s and seemed to pick up a...
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Jess Nevins
jjnevins@...
Jun 16, 2001 10:10 am
... There was also The Human Bat, what looks to me to be a Springheeled Jack lift, from THE FUNNY WONDER in 1899. And, of course, the French had a few costumed...
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billblackbeard@...
Jun 16, 2001 3:54 pm
Hi, Jess -- I've had a poster of the Human Bat on my wall for years, but have never been able to locate a copy of the text, worse luck. Dunno if the character...
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jjnevins@...
Jun 16, 2001 4:16 pm
... Well...my "friend" in England, who provided me with a good bit of information on my Victoriana site (http://ratmmjess.topcities.com/vicintro.html , in case...
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billblackbeard@...
Jun 16, 2001 6:50 pm
Hi, Jess -- To note another winged & tightly costumed superperson, the British boys mag, The Wonder, published a 30-part serial called The Winged Man thru the...
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jjnevins@...
Jun 16, 2001 7:00 pm
... Ooooh...sounds like fun! If you wouldn't mind, yes, I'd love a copy of the article! Sounds like it'd be perfect for my Pulps site (It's the companion to my...
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billblackbeard@...
Jun 16, 2001 7:22 pm
Hi, Jess -- Just a note: all of the Fantomas novels were reprinted in the States & England in some 14 hardcover books in the 1920s. Really dreadful stuff for...
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jjnevins@...
Jun 16, 2001 7:33 pm
... I was too hasty. I have a couple of the Fantomas books--the paperback editions from the 1980s--but Jean-Marc Lofficier tells me that the translations from...
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justingilb@...
Jun 17, 2001 3:50 pm
Does your copy list a publisher? Does it have a general title page, and is it dated? Does it have ads for any other titles? Are there any spine titles, and...
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billblackbeard@...
Jun 17, 2001 4:20 pm
Hi, Justin -- No publisher's name appears on any part of my bound SJ volume, nor are there any spine references to other titles. My copy has no title page...
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billblackbeard@...
Jun 27, 2001 7:31 pm
Hi, Michael, Justin, Jess, et al -- herewith the first installment of my collection list. (Looking forward to yours!)...
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billblackbeard@...
Jun 27, 2001 7:52 pm
Does the Yahoo system always bollox up title lists and such the way it did my original neatly typed and orderly list of boys' magazines? It went out fine at...
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jjnevins@...
Jun 27, 2001 11:22 pm
Wow. I'm very impressed--you must have been collecting these for years! All I've got is a couple of odd singletons--nothing really notable--and the 1893 issue...
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billblackbeard@...
Jun 27, 2001 11:33 pm
HI, Michael, Justin, Jess, et al -- herewith the first installment of my collection list. (Looking forward to yours!) NOTE: All titles are complete and...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Jun 29, 2001 11:53 am
Hello to all I've been working on an introduction to a new edition of Varney the Vampyre soon to be published by Wildside Press, New Jersey. The research...
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billblackbeard@...
Jun 30, 2001 7:38 pm
Thie list is ot alphabetical; it is simply a listing of books as they are found on my shelves. All are bound from eighe-page penny parts complete with title...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 1, 2001 6:16 pm
Hi, Justin -- Alas for fond hopes; your msword attachment was too much for my sorry webtv service to handle. (Your listed dups, however, would make up a great...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 1, 2001 6:57 pm
Hi, Michael -- Your storypaper list downloaded here very oddly, thanks to my miserable webtv service. Much of your list was made up of battalions of "y's"...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 1, 2001 10:33 pm
THE MANIAC FATHER or The Victim of Seduction by Thomas Prest, E lloyd, nd, 604 pp., rag, well-read copy but sound; one page damaged not affecting text. THE...
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billblackbeard@...
Jul 3, 2001 12:53 am
NOTE: Most of the following titles are parts-issue fiction, but some are one volume reprints of serials from boy's papers and US story papers. And a few are...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
Jul 3, 2001 9:02 am
Hello Bill, I just did a quick check for Raby Rattler on ABE and I found 5 copies (with Jarndyce being the most expensive). What I found interesting is that...
