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Another JWB Myth?
03-31-2013, 06:57 PM, (This post was last modified: 03-31-2013, 06:59 PM by BettyO.)
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RE: Another JWB Myth?
Gene -

I've been collecting these things since about 1975. They are pretty scarce - however they are easier to find now that we have the internet!

The Booth and Beall story was published in The Bloody Junto in 1869 - that is one of the first instances that I've read of it. The "story" continues in other various novels, including one horrid play which I don't think was ever produced, thank goodness! - Madam Surratt in which Powell is the hero in love with Beall's sister! It's a ghastly play with improbable scenes (most of which border on Hamlet!) while utilizing Shakespearean language.....

Penny Dreadfuls were early forerunners of comic books or today's graphic novels.

Titles include:

The Great Conspiracy by Barclay and Company
Booth the Assassin by Dion Haco
The Private Journal of John Surratt by Dion Haco
The Parricides by Ned Buntline
The War Detective or the Plotters at Washington by Major A. F. Grant
Lives, Crimes and Confessions of the Assassins by Dr. L. L. Stevens
"The Past is a foreign country...they do things differently there" - L. P. Hartley
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Another JWB Myth? - by historybuff22 - 03-30-2013, 11:08 PM
RE: Another JWB Myth? - by RJNorton - 03-31-2013, 04:58 AM
RE: Another JWB Myth? - by Jim Garrett - 03-31-2013, 05:53 AM
RE: Another JWB Myth? - by BettyO - 03-31-2013, 07:51 AM
RE: Another JWB Myth? - by Gene C - 03-31-2013, 06:35 PM
RE: Another JWB Myth? - by L Verge - 03-31-2013, 04:49 PM
RE: Another JWB Myth? - by BettyO - 03-31-2013, 06:57 PM

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