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Sexton Blake
Sexton Blake is a fictional character, a detective who has been featured in many British comic strips, novels and dramatic productions since 1893. Sexton Blake adventures were featured in a wide variety of British and international publications (in many languages) from 1893 to 1978, comprising more than 4,000 stories by some 200 different authors. Blake was also the hero of numerous silent and sound films, radio serials, and a Sexton Blake (TV series), 1960s ITV television series. Publication history The first decades The first Sexton Blake story was "The Missing Millionaire". Written by Harry Blyth (using the pseudonym Hal Meredeth), it was published in the story paper ''The Halfpenny Marvel'' number 6, on 20 December 1893. He featured thereafter also in a few more stories by Meredeth. His adventures were published subsequently in a variety of publications, primarily the magazine ''Union Jack (magazine), Union Jack'', published first in April 1894. Blake featured in Issue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Blyth
Henry Thomas (Harry) Blyth (1852–1898) was a British writer who also wrote under the pen-name Hal Meredith. Blyth was born in Greenwich, London. He wrote for many of Alfred Harmsworth's papers of the 1890s, and is mostly remembered for creating detective Sexton Blake. Life and work As a freelance writer and journalist Blyth started out writing about food. His ''Eat, Drink and be Merry; or Dainty Bits from many Tables'' was published by J. A. Brook and Co in 1876. Of it, the Bookseller wrote: "This is not a Cookery book, but a gossip about all sorts of Cookery, from real turtle to snails; all sorts of drinks, from Champagne to small beer eau-de-voie to nettle tea; with anecdotes culled from all sources, and presented with the sauce of a true literary caterer." It was followed by a series of food articles entitled Snacks for the Hungry, in the ''Tattler'', then in 1879 by ''Magic Morsels: Scraps from an Epicure's Table, Gathered, Garnished and Dished by Harry Blyth'', publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the end of the first decade of the 20th century Sexton Blake was arguably the most popular detective in the boy story papers, featuring in weekly tales in the ''Union Jack''. The Amalgamated Press decided to give him his own story paper and ''The Sexton Blake Library'' debuted in 1915 and was published in five "series" over the next fifty years. Publication was constant at 2–4 issues per month until the end of series 4 in 1964. Series 5, starting 1965, was a sporadic series of paperbacks. The last edition, "Down Among The Ad Men" written by W. A Ballinger ( Wilfred McNeilly), was published in October 1968. Series 1 ran from September 1915 until May 1925, a total of 382 issues. Series 2 ran from May 1925 until June 1941, a total of 744 is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Detective Library
Super may refer to: Computing * SUPER (computer program), or Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer, a video converter / player * Super (computer science), a keyword in object-oriented programming languages * Super key (keyboard button) Film and television * ''Super'' (2005 film), a Telugu film starring Nagarjuna, Anushka Shetty and Ayesha Takia * ''Super'' (2010 Indian film), a Kannada language film starring Upendra and Nayantara * ''Super'' (2010 American film), a film written and directed by James Gunn, and starring Rainn Wilson and Elliot Page * "Super" (''Person of Interest''), an episode of the TV series ''Person of Interest'' Music * "Super" (Cordae song), a 2021 song by American rapper Cordae * "Super" (Neu! song), a 1972 song by German band Neu! * " Super (1, 2, 3)", a 2000 song by Italian DJ Gigi D'Agostino * ''Super'' (album), a 2016 album by Pet Shop Boys Other uses * Super!, an Italian television network * Super (gamer) (born 2000), America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Taylor (comics)
Alfred Taylor is the name of: * Alfred A. Taylor (1848–1931), U.S. Congressman and Governor of Tennessee * Alfred Taylor (British Army officer) (1862–1941), soldier and Member of Parliament, Rhodesia * J. Alfred Taylor (1878–1956), U.S. Representative from West Virginia *Alfred Edward Taylor (1869–1945), British idealist philosopher * Alf Taylor (cricketer) (1891–?), English cricketer *Alfred Taylor (cricketer) (1944–2009), Barbadian cricketer *Alfred Dundas Taylor (1825–1898), civil architect to the Admiralty in the UK *Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806–1880), English toxicologist and medical writer * Alfred Taylor (wrestler) (1889–?), British Olympic wrestler * Alfred Taylor (cinematographer), worked on the 1974 film '' The Teacher'' * Alfred Taylor (comics); see Knockout (UK comics) ''Knockout'' may refer to one of two British comics. The original series, published by the Amalgamated Press (later Fleetway Publications), started on 4 March 1939 and ended on 16 Februar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jos Walker
Jos is a city in the north central region of Nigeria. The city has a population of about 900,000 residents based on the 2006 census. Popularly called "J-Town", it is the administrative capital and largest city of Plateau State. During British colonial rule, Jos was an important centre for tin mining and is the trading hub of the state as commercial activities are steadily increasing. History The earliest known settlers of the land that would come to be known as Nigeria were the Nok people ( BCE), skilled artisans from around the Jos area who mysteriously vanished in the late first millennium. According to the historian Sen Luka Gwom Zangabadt, the area known as Jos today was inhabited by indigenous ethnic groups who were mostly farmers. According to Billy J. Dudley, the British colonialists used direct rule for the indigenous ethnic groups on the Jos Plateau since they were not under the Fulani emirates where indirect rule was used. According to the historian Samuel N Nwaba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knockout (UK Comics)
''Knockout'' may refer to one of two British comics. The original series, published by the Amalgamated Press (later Fleetway Publications), started on 4 March 1939 and ended on 16 February 1963, when it merged with '' Valiant''. The second series, published by IPC Magazines, ran from 12 June 1971 to 23 June 1973, when it merged with '' Whizzer and Chips''. First series The first series, titled ''Knockout Comics'', was launched by editor Percy Clarke and sub-editor Leonard Matthews in 1939 to compete with ''The Dandy'' and ''The Beano'' (launched by DC Thomson in 1937 and 1938 respectively). Like its rivals, it featured a mixture of humour and adventure strips and illustrated prose stories. Matthews recruited Hugh McNeill,Alan Clark, ''Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors'', The British Library, 1998, p. 106-107 a former ''Beano'' artist, as the title's main humour artist, and his strips '' Our Ernie'' and '' Deed-a-Day Danny'' were very popular.Alan Clark, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IPC Media
TI Media (formerly International Publishing Company, IPC Magazines Ltd, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK) was a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. Most of its titles now belong to Future plc. History Origins The British magazine publishing industry in the mid-1950s was dominated by a handful of companies, principally the Associated Newspapers (founded by Lord Harmsworth in 1890), Odhams Press Ltd, Newnes/ Pearson, and the Hulton Press, which fought each other for market share in a highly competitive marketplace. Fleetway In 1958 Cecil Harmsworth King, chairman of the newspaper group, The Daily Mirror Newspapers Limited which included the ''Daily Mirror'' and the ''Sunday Pictorial'' (now the ''Sunday Mirror''), together with provincial chain West of England Newspapers, made an offer for Amalgamated Press. The offer was accepted, and in January 1959 he was appointed its chairman. Withi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian O'Nolan
Brian O'Nolan ( ga, Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966), better known by his pen name Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature. Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature. His English language novels, such as ''At Swim-Two-Birds'' and '' The Third Policeman'', were written under the O’Brien pen name. His many satirical columns in ''The Irish Times'' and an Irish language novel ''An Béal Bocht'' were written under the name Myles na gCopaleen. O'Brien's novels have attracted a wide following for their unconventional humour and modernist metafiction. As a novelist, O'Brien was influenced by James Joyce. He was nonetheless sceptical of the "cult" of Joyce, saying "I declare to God if I hear that name Joyce one more time I will surely froth at the gob." Biography Family and early l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Moorcock
Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer, best-known for science fiction and fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction. He has worked as an editor and is also a successful musician. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, a seminal influence on the field of fantasy since the 1960s and '70s. As editor of the British science fiction magazine '' New Worlds'', from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States, leading to the advent of cyberpunk. His publication of ''Bug Jack Barron'' (1969) by Norman Spinrad as a serial novel was notorious; in Parliament, some British MPs condemned the Arts Council of Great Britain for funding the magazine. He is also a recording musician, contributing to the bands Hawkwind, ... [...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 * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Trevor Story
Jack Trevor Story (30 March 1917 – 5 December 1991) was a British novelist, publishing prolifically from the 1940s to the 1970s. His best-known works are the 1949 comic mystery ''The Trouble with Harry'' (which was adapted for Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film of the same name), the Albert Argyle trilogy (''Live Now, Pay Later'', ''Something for Nothing'' and ''The Urban District Lover''), and his Horace Spurgeon novels (''I Sit in Hanger Lane'', ''One Last Mad Embrace'', ''Hitler Needs You''). He also wrote under the names Alex Atwell, Bret Harding and Rex Riotti. Early life Story was born in Hertford, England, in 1917, the son of a baker's roundsman and a domestic servant. During the First World War his father was killed, after which his mother moved to Cambridge and worked in one of the colleges. As a young boy, Story worked as a butcher's lad making local deliveries. He stated that his early education was derived from ''The Modern Boy'', '' Melody Maker'' and ''Action'' ... [...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 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
