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Dime Novels
Posted: 27 Mar 2015, 21:39
by stevezodiac
Re: Dime Novels
Posted: 28 Mar 2015, 07:20
by ISPYSHHHGUY
Nice esoteric stuff as ever, Steve.
I hope to visit the actual West of the USA over the next year or two.
I visited a shop in New York that was dedicated to Wild West memorabilia---I am sure you would have loved it.
I love the Ennio Morricone music 'Ecstacy of Gold' piece heard near the end of The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Re: Dime Novels
Posted: 28 Mar 2015, 10:19
by philcom55
I think 'Dime Novels' were the US equivalent of our British 'Penny Dreadfuls'. Though there were some reprints of Western stories from America we also had a vast number of home-grown 'British Westerns' like Robin Hood, Dick Turpin and Claude Duval - quasi-historical characters who subsequently made a successful transition to comic strip publications such as the Thriller Picture Library. I particularly like some of the covers that appeared on the Dick Turpin titles published in the early 20th century by the Aldine company - many of which can be be picked up quite cheaply today.