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Dixon Hawke
Dixon Hawke was a fictional detective who was featured in the DC Thomson publications from 1912 to 2000. Created in 1912 by an unknown author for DC Thomson he appeared in various publications including ''The Saturday Post'', ''The Sunday Post'', ''Adventure'', ''The Sporting Post'', ''Topical Times'', ''The Evening Telegraph'' and ''The Dixon Hawke Library''. In 1989, researcher and author W. O. G. Lofts stated that Hawke had been running continuously on a weekly basis for well over 76 years, and "so must be credited with being the longest consecutive running character of all time."Lofts W.O.G. Seventy-Six Years of Dixon Hawke, Collectors Digest #507, 1989, p 29 http://www.friardale.co.uk/Collectors%20Digest/1989-03-CollectorsDigest-v43-n507.pdf Lofts estimated that Hawke had appeared in some 5000 stories.Lofts W.O.G. Seventy-Six Years of Dixon Hawke, Collectors Digest #507, 1989, p 30 http://www.friardale.co.uk/Collectors%20Digest/1989-03-CollectorsDigest-v43-n507.pdf Eleven y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DC Thomson
DC Thomson is a media company based in Dundee, Scotland. Founded by David Couper Thomson in 1905, it is best known for publishing '' The Dundee Courier'', '' The Evening Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Post'' newspapers, and the comics '' Oor Wullie'', '' The Broons'', '' The Beano'', '' The Dandy'' and '' Commando''. It also owns the Aberdeen Journals Group which publishes the '' Press and Journal''. The company owns several websites, including Findmypast, and owned the now defunct social media site Friends Reunited. History The company began as a branch of the Thomson family business when William Thomson became the sole proprietor of Charles Alexander & Company, publishers of ''Dundee Courier and Daily Argus''. In 1884, David Couper Thomson took over the publishing business, and established it as D.C. Thomson in 1905. The firm flourished, and took its place as the third J in the "Three Js", the traditional summary of Dundee industry ('jute, jam and journalism'). Thom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wizard (DC Thomson)
''The Wizard'' was launched as a weekly British story paper on 22 September 1922, published by It was merged with ''The Rover'' in September 1963, becoming ''Rover and Wizard''. The last issue of the original ''Wizard'' was number 1,970; ''Rover and Wizard'' continued until the ''Wizard'' name was dropped — becoming ''The Rover'' in August 1969. ''The Wizard'' was relaunched as a comic book on 14 February 1970, and continued until 10 June 1978. Regular features * ''Blazing Ace of Spades'' — fictional RAF fighter pilot of the Second World War * ''The Q Team'' — an association football team assembled by the mysterious Ka * ''Ruthless Ruff'' — fictional RFC flying ace of the Great War * ''Wilson the Wonder Athlete'' — the sporting adventures of a heroic character named William Wilson * ''Wolf of Kabul'' — fictional agent of the British Intelligence Corps on the North-West Frontier Province The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; ps, شمال ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Characters Introduced In 1912
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymologically, the term derives from Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In spite of this, the term has also been applied to sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Barker
Howard Barker (born 28 June 1946) is a British playwright, screenwriter and writer of radio drama, painter, poet, and essayist writing predominantly on playwriting and the theatre. The author of an extensive body of dramatic works since the 1970s, he is best known for his plays ''Scenes from an Execution'', ''Victory'', '' The Castle'', ''The Possibilities'', ''The Europeans'', '' Judith'' and '' Gertrude - The Cry'' as well as being a founding member, primary playwright and stage designer for British theatre company The Wrestling School. The Theatre of Catastrophe Barker has coined the term "Theatre of Catastrophe" to describe his work. His plays often explore violence, sexuality, the desire for power, and human motivation. Rejecting the widespread notion that an audience should share a single response to the events onstage, Barker works to fragment response, forcing each viewer to wrestle with the play alone. "We must overcome the urge to do things in unison" he writes. "To c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Edward Vickers
William Edward Vickers (1889–1965) was an English mystery writer better known under his pen name Roy Vickers, but used also the pseudonyms Roy C. Vickers, David Durham, Sefton Kyle, and John Spencer. He is the author of over 60 crime novels and 80 short stories. Vickers is now remembered mostly for his attribution to Scotland Yard of a ''Department of Dead Ends'', specialized in solving old, sometimes long-forgotten cases, mostly by chance encounters of odd bits of strange and apparently disconnected evidence. He was educated at Charterhouse School, and left Brasenose College, Oxford without a degree. For some time he studied law at the Middle Temple, but never practiced. He married Mary Van Rossem and they had one son. He worked as a journalist, as a court reporter and as a magazine editor; he also wrote a large number of nonfiction articles and sold hundreds of them to newspapers and magazines. Between November 1913 and February 1917, twenty short stories by Vickers were publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Addington Symonds
Francis Addington Symonds (1893 – 1971) was a British editor and writer who wrote under the pen-names Earle Danesford, 'Howard Steele and F. A. Symonds. He was Founder-Editor of ''The Champion'' in 1922, and he later edited ''Rocket'', ''Pluck'', and ''Young Britain''. He also wrote several Sexton Blake stories for the ''Union Jack'' and ''The Sexton Blake Library ''The Sexton Blake Library'' was a story paper of the first two-thirds of the 20th century, published by Amalgamated Press. It featured the adventures of private detective Sexton Blake, his boy assistant Tinker and their dog Pedro. Overview By th ...''. Life Not much is known about Symonds' private life. In 1921 he wrote his first Sexton Blake story. The story proved popular and he continued to write Blake tales throughout the 1920s, adding unique characters to the saga including Claire Delisle, The Raven, Dr. Queed, and Vedax the Dwarf. In the late 1920s and early 1930s he published articles and short storie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Creasey
John Creasey (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English crime writer, also writing science fiction, romance and western novels, who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. He created several characters who are now famous, such as The Toff (The Honourable Richard Rollison), Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron (John Mannering), Doctor Emmanuel Cellini and Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. The most popular of these was Gideon of Scotland Yard, who was the basis for the television series '' Gideon's Way'' and for the John Ford movie ''Gideon's Day'' (1958). The Baron character was also made into a 1960s TV series starring Steve Forrest as ''The Baron''. Life and career John Creasey was born in Southfields, London Borough of Wandsworth (formerly part of Surrey), to a working-class family. He was the seventh of nine children of Ruth and Joseph Creasey, a poor coach maker. Creasey was educated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John G
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellow Peril
The Yellow Peril (also the Yellow Terror and the Yellow Specter) is a racist, racial color terminology for race, color metaphor that depicts the peoples of East Asia, East and Southeast Asia as an existential danger to the Western world. As a psychocultural menace from the Eastern world, fear of the Yellow Peril is racial, not national, fear derived not from concern with a specific source of danger from any one people or country, but from a vaguely ominous, Existentialism, existential fear of the faceless, nameless hordes of yellow people. As a form of xenophobia and racism, Yellow Terror is the fear of the Oriental, Other (philosophy), nonwhite Other; and a Racialism, racialist fantasy presented in the book ''The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy'' (1920) by Lothrop Stoddard. The racist ideology of the Yellow Peril derives from a "core imagery of apes, lesser men, primitives, children, madmen, and beings who possessed special powers", which developed during th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hamilton Teed
George Hamilton Teed (9 December 1886 – 24 December 1938) was a Canadian author who also wrote under the pen-names G. H. Teed, Hamilton Teed, Louis Brittany, Peter Kingsland, and Desmond Reid. Teed was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick. He specialized in adventure fiction and detective stories, but also wrote science fiction and the odd romance. He is best remembered for his tales of Sexton Blake, a popular, fictional British detective who featured in a wide variety of publications in the first half of the twentieth century. He wrote close to three hundred Blake tales, more than any other author, and his creations and writings are considered "the best in Blake history before the Second World War." Life and work George Heber Hamilton Teed was one of three children. His father, Almon Isiah Teed, was a merchant who owned saw-mills, a fleet of boats, and a coffee plantation in South America. Hamilton was educated at McGill University in Montreal at that time one of Canada's most exc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwy Searles Brooks
Edwy Searles Brooks (11 November 1889 – 2 December 1965) was a British novelist who also wrote under the pen-names Berkeley Gray, Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, and Carlton Ross. Brooks was born in Hackney, London. He is believed to have written around 40 million words. Life and work Brooks was one of four sons (there was also a daughter) of George Brooks, a Congregational minister and well-known political writer including for ''The Times''. When the family relocated to Norfolk, Brooks attended Banham Grammar School in that county. His first name was a Welsh form of "Edwin"; his second a grandmother's surname. Brooks published his first short story, "Mr Dorien's Missing £2000", in July 1907, when he was seventeen. His first major breakthrough came in 1910, when the paper ''The Gem'' gave him an assignment to publish a serial named "The Iron Island", the main character being Frank Kingston. In 1912 he wrote his first Sexton Blake stories and in 1915 started writing Nelson Lee de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelson Lee (detective)
Nelson Lee is a fictional detective who featured in the Amalgamated Press papers over a 40-year run. Created in 1894 by Maxwell Scott (the pseudonym of Dr. John Staniforth 1863-1927) he appeared in various publications including '' The Halfpenny Marvel'', ''Pluck'', '' The Boys' Friend'', ''Boy’s Realm'', '' The Boys' Herald'' and the '' Union Jack'' In 1915 he was given his own story-paper series, ''The Nelson Lee Library'', which ran until 1933. In all Lee appeared in over 2500 tales set in every corner of the globe, making him one of the most published fictional detectives of all time. Publication history The 1890s: The solo years Nelson Lee made his debut in ''A Dead Man’s Secret'' in '' The Halfpenny Marvel'' #46, on 19 September 1894. The world would meet him at the open of Chapter 2: Nelson Lee, the famous detective, sat in his room in Gray’s Inn Road, dealing with his morning’s correspondence. So great was the demand for his advice and help that nine-ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
