Frank Reade Weekly - Early Science Fiction in dime novels & story papers

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

http://www.popularfiction.us/

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