E.S. Turner's first book, published in 1948, is a wholly
original, richly researched and uncommonly insightful study of a
somewhat disreputable genre: the 'Boys' Weekly' papers commonly
known as 'penny dreadfuls.'
'A classic of its kind... Turner] ploughed through back numbers
of the old blood-and-thunder adventure magazines specialising in
cliffhanger serials; the young hero would be left hanging over a
cliff in a totally impossible situation, which would be easily
resolved in the next issue: 'With one bound Jack was free.' Social
history had never been as much fun or, with three extra printings
in its first week - such was the demand - as profitable.' Jonathan
Sale, Guardian
'Some people felt that E.S. Turner may have invented a new kind
of book - the popular social history, very British, very funny, but
written with a glistening elegance.'
Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books
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