A friend is looking for a copy of this story paper, Boys' Magazine, Volume 23, No. 608, October 28, 1933. It's a long shot but enjoy the image anyway. Edwy...
Hi, John -- Wonder if your zine-seeking contact is aware that any copy of this King Kong issue is going to price out at a minimum of $250.00. KK print...
Just a note about the illustrations for Falcon Swift on my website. I have often thought these look a lot like Frank Hampson's (Hampton ?)comic artwork on...
Hi John, "Just a note about the illustrations for Falcon Swift on my website. I have often thought these look a lot like Frank Hampson's (Hampton ?)comic...
A new 20 odd page revised list of early criminal literature, comic and fiction periodicals and penny bloods. The titles of the 3 Spring-Heeled Jack pamphlets...
Here are some illustrations from Spring-Heel'd Jack : The Terror of London. A Romance of the Nineteenth Century, By the author of the "Confederate's Daughter,"...
Message 1784 and 1785 : I had asked ; "I noticed this title in the Collectors Miscellany. Was it real, or another Quaine invention? Bloodstained Bill." Turns...
Well, I finally found time to join! Hello, everyone. I'm Dennis McCarthy. I'm an SHJ collector -- my goal is to acquire all penny dreads, plays, stories,...
I'm also looking for a book called "The Jumping Man of Victorian England," by Philip Wargen (Londonderry Press, 1974). I'm not entirely certain this book...
Ahhh. That may be my fault. In 1974 I wrote a 120pp manuscript on Spring-heeled Jack titled,very lamely "The Jumping Man Of Victorian London:Spring Heeled...
Ah-ha! It has to be the same book! Are copies available, Terry? ... Spring-heeled Jack titled,very lamely "The Jumping Man Of Victorian London:Spring Heeled...
My own copy was lost thanks to some stupid tv researcher at Yorkshire TV I had to work with and I've had to reprise a lot for the proposed tv documentary [DO...
Yikes! Will do, Terry. I have a friend in the UK in the film and TV business -- perhaps (with huge gobs of luck) I could hunt down the researcher. FYI, your...
Thanks to Jess Nevins, Mike Dash, and a little of my own research, following is what I hope are SHJ's complete literary credentials from his first fictional...
Okay, I was working with Yorkshire TV in....1989...on some TV ideas and the researcher borrowed my copy to make a copy! When I rang later and said I needed...
Hello, I'd like to chime in here as a fan of Spring Heeled Jack. I've even written several short stories, one novella, and am writing another one right now....
Kevin! Did you recently appear in a short film about SHJ? Incidentally, I've got both your SHJ books -- very weird, very unsettling (and therefore fun). Is...
Kevin, I'll check out those links. Actually,did you know that 'SHJ' was supposedly seen in,I believe,Virginia in 1948? Not much info and I wouldn't say it...
Hi Dennis, Unfortunately, I've never heard of a short SHJ film. My friends want to make one with me, but I'm working on other projects. I'm thinking of turning...
Hi Terry, I don't think I knew about the sighing in 1948, thanks! I'll have to look up some information on that. Let me add that your work and the work of...
Well, he spells his name differently, but go here: http://www.studentfilms.com/film/get.do?id=946 ...and take a look at the name of the actor playng SHJ. What...
Anyone researching the true-life SHJ has to see Mike Dash's amazing research. His original article appears in Volume 3 of Fortean Studies (abebooks.com likely...
Thank you for the link. Wonderful! I found a still of SHJ from this video about a year ago and wondered where it had come from. SHJ has been depicted so many...
Kevin, I'll track down that info for you in the next few days. Not much detail but people involved in UFO research link SHJ-UFOs and the 1948 case together. ...
Kevin: In Mike Dash's Fortean piece, he cites J. Vyner's article in vol. 7, no. 3 of Flying Saucer Review (1961) that relates an incident in Chehalis,...
Thanks for the link, Dennis! The odds are frankly, very bizarre! He spells his name 'Kevin Olsen', whereas I spell mine 'Kevin Olson'. How strange, indeed! ;,)...
