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Spring Heeled Jack: The Terror Of London
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The only version I found: From "The Boy's Standard", six installments from No. 219, Saturday, July 18, 1885 to No. 224, August 22, 1885. by Alfred Burrage (as "Charlton Lea")? http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602...
The most notable fictional Spring Heeled Jacks of the 19th and early 20th centuries were:
*A play by John Thomas Haines, in 1840, "Spring-Heeled Jack, the Terror of London", which shows him as a brigand who attacks women because his own sweetheart betrayed him.
*Later that decade, Spring Heeled Jack's first Penny Dreadful appearance came in the anonymously written "Spring-Heeled Jack, The Terror of London", which appeared in weekly episodes. It too made Jack a villain, and drew as much from the plays as it did reality.
*"Spring-heel'd Jack: The Terror of London", a Penny Dreadful published by the Newsagents’ Publishing Company c. 1864–1867 was reissued in a rewritten version. The first penny his figure experienced a metamorphosis and he became a dark hero?
*"Spring-heel'd Jack: The Terror of London", a 48-part penny weekly serial published c. 1878–1879 in "The Boys' Standard", written either by veteran author of dreadfuls George Augustus Henry Sala or by Alfred Burrage (as "Charlton Lea"). It kept the same title, but totally transformed the story. Jack is no villain in these stories; he uses his powers to right wrongs, and save the innocent from the wicked. Here he is in fact a nobleman by birth, cheated of his inheritance, and his amazing leaps are due to compressed springs in the heels of his boots. He is dressed in a skin-tight glossy red outfit, with bat's wings, a lion's mane, horns, talons, massive cloven hoofs, and a sulphurous breath, he makes spectacular leaps, easily jumping over rooftops or rivers, and is immensely strong.
*"Spring-Heel Jack; or, The Masked Mystery of the Tower", appearing in "Beadle's New York Dime Library #332", 4 March 1885, and written by Col. Thomas Monstery.
*A 48-part serial published by Charles Fox and written by Alfred Burrage (as "Charlton Lea"), 1889–1890
*A 1904 version by Alfred Burrage (as "Charlton Lea"). portrayals of the character as a wronged nobleman who adopted the guise of Spring Heeled Jack in order to reclaim his stolen fortune and to right injustices, anticipated several distinguishing features of the 20th Century superhero genre.
The early works invariably presented Spring Heeled Jack as an arch-villain, but his figure experienced a metamorphosis throughout the years, and he became a dark hero. The first penny dreadful to introduce such a change was the 1860s edition, and this variation was adopted by all the publications that followed, reaching its highest development in Burrage's 1904 version.
In this version (which takes place in 1805, after Napoleon Bonaparte has conquered Europe), Spring Heeled Jack is Bertram Wraydon, a young and handsome lieutenant of the British Army, heir to £10,000 a year, who is unfairly framed for treason by his evil half brother Hubert Sedgefield. After escaping from his prison, Wraydon returns seeking revenge on the villains, assuming a secret identity and an odd-looking costume with mane and talons, fighting against evil and helping the innocent. He has a secret lair, where he has hidden what he managed to save of his inheritance, selflessly using it to fund his heroic activities. These include the design of a spring mechanism that allows him to leap over thirty feet, and a device to breathe flames at evildoers. the writing shows the "hero" using rooftops as means of observing and following culprits and 'Jack even leaves a hallmark: he carves an "S" into the forehead of his vanquished foes.
The most notable fictional Spring Heeled Jacks of the 19th and early 20th centuries were:
*A play by John Thomas Haines, in 1840, "Spring-Heeled Jack, the Terror of London", which shows him as a brigand who attacks women because his own sweetheart betrayed him.
*Later that decade, Spring Heeled Jack's first Penny Dreadful appearance came in the anonymously written "Spring-Heeled Jack, The Terror of London", which appeared in weekly episodes. It too made Jack a villain, and drew as much from the plays as it did reality.
*"Spring-heel'd Jack: The Terror of London", a Penny Dreadful published by the Newsagents’ Publishing Company c. 1864–1867 was reissued in a rewritten version. The first penny his figure experienced a metamorphosis and he became a dark hero?
*"Spring-heel'd Jack: The Terror of London", a 48-part penny weekly serial published c. 1878–1879 in "The Boys' Standard", written either by veteran author of dreadfuls George Augustus Henry Sala or by Alfred Burrage (as "Charlton Lea"). It kept the same title, but totally transformed the story. Jack is no villain in these stories; he uses his powers to right wrongs, and save the innocent from the wicked. Here he is in fact a nobleman by birth, cheated of his inheritance, and his amazing leaps are due to compressed springs in the heels of his boots. He is dressed in a skin-tight glossy red outfit, with bat's wings, a lion's mane, horns, talons, massive cloven hoofs, and a sulphurous breath, he makes spectacular leaps, easily jumping over rooftops or rivers, and is immensely strong.
*"Spring-Heel Jack; or, The Masked Mystery of the Tower", appearing in "Beadle's New York Dime Library #332", 4 March 1885, and written by Col. Thomas Monstery.
*A 48-part serial published by Charles Fox and written by Alfred Burrage (as "Charlton Lea"), 1889–1890
*A 1904 version by Alfred Burrage (as "Charlton Lea"). portrayals of the character as a wronged nobleman who adopted the guise of Spring Heeled Jack in order to reclaim his stolen fortune and to right injustices, anticipated several distinguishing features of the 20th Century superhero genre.
The early works invariably presented Spring Heeled Jack as an arch-villain, but his figure experienced a metamorphosis throughout the years, and he became a dark hero. The first penny dreadful to introduce such a change was the 1860s edition, and this variation was adopted by all the publications that followed, reaching its highest development in Burrage's 1904 version.
In this version (which takes place in 1805, after Napoleon Bonaparte has conquered Europe), Spring Heeled Jack is Bertram Wraydon, a young and handsome lieutenant of the British Army, heir to £10,000 a year, who is unfairly framed for treason by his evil half brother Hubert Sedgefield. After escaping from his prison, Wraydon returns seeking revenge on the villains, assuming a secret identity and an odd-looking costume with mane and talons, fighting against evil and helping the innocent. He has a secret lair, where he has hidden what he managed to save of his inheritance, selflessly using it to fund his heroic activities. These include the design of a spring mechanism that allows him to leap over thirty feet, and a device to breathe flames at evildoers. the writing shows the "hero" using rooftops as means of observing and following culprits and 'Jack even leaves a hallmark: he carves an "S" into the forehead of his vanquished foes.
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