The Electric Man or Frank Reade, Jr, in Australia
Frank Leslie’s Chimney Corner, Volume 5, Issue 111
The Old Customer.
“Murderer. Your hour has come.”
Young England.
“An Illustrated Magazine for Boys through-out the English-Speaking World” (September 1898)
Secret Service: The Bradys and the Magic Ring; or, The Case of the Hindoo Conjurer.
“As the conjurer waved his wand the smoke thickened. Then Harry saw a singular thing. A gigantic hand seemed to form in the vapor, and between the thumb and forefinger it held a ring. Just then Old King Brady peered in.”
Ah…. it’s probably just a hologram.
October 9, 1908
Or not.
Brother X; or the Gobblers of Turkey Neck (the story continues)
Alright, so they’re not exactly the Red Skull and Hydra, but as at the time the only examples of a supervillain they had to go on were Professor Moriarty and Dracula and the closest idea to vast evil secret societies were hysterical pamphlets against the Freemasons.
This is no doubt the reason the Council of Turkeys don’t quite cut the mustard… though they might go over well if slathered in same and placed between two slices of bread as thanksgiving left overs.
Now if they were owls that would be something else altogether!
