Jimmie Dale Alias The Gray Seal

Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548060466
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jimmie Dale, Alias the Gray Seal written by Michael Howard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Few characters as obscure as Canadian novelist Frank L. Packard's gentleman cracksman, Jimmie Dale the Gray Seal, have had the impact and long term import of this one. Almost unknown today, Packard and his creation not only exerted a tremendous influence on the pulps he came from, but established many of the tropes of the modern superhero in comic books. From his secret lair, the Sanctuary, his multiple identities, and his calling card, a gray diamond paper seal, Jimmie Dale set the pattern for the mystery men and super heroes who will follow." - David L. Vineyard In the summer of 1912 New York City was being terrorized by a bizarre organization of metal-clawed criminals who ascend stone walls as easily as others climb stairs. Dubbed the Spider Gang by the press, they roamed over every part of Manhattan from neighborhoods of squalid tenements to the most luxurious mansions of the rich. It wasn't wealth that they sought however, instead it was the City's most beautiful women who were being carried off for some unknown purpose. A new challenge for the Gray Seal! The very first in a long, long line of crime-fighting urban vigilantes has returned in an all new novel length adventure. More than a century ago bored society millionaire Jimmie Dale hid his identity behind a mask and slouch hat to become the safe-cracking master criminal known as the Gray Seal. His objective was excitement rather than financial gain, but quickly decided that justice was a still more worthy goal. Dale became feared and hunted by both the police and the underworld as he waged a one-man war on evildoers the law could not stop. Commanded by the mysterious woman of a thousand faces known as the Tocsin, Jimmie Dale pits himself against those who prey on the weakest members of society. The Gray Seal novels of Frank Packard influenced a wide range of heroes including The Shadow, the Spider, and the Green Hornet. The Gray Seal strikes again!

Author : Frank Packard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986848992
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Jimmie Dale: Volume One written by Frank Packard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914 a character appeared who would permanently transform popular fiction. Frank Packard's Gray Seal melded elements from A. J. Raffles, Jimmy Valentine, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and Arsène Lupin, but those traits were combined with an entirely new concept: the gifted young man who conceals his identity behind a mask to fight crime in the big city. It had never been done before and it's never stopped being done since. Jimmie Dale, the high society millionaire behind the Gray Seal persona, helped to launch the hero pulp boom of the 1930s and was a direct influence on the Green Hornet, the Spider, the Phantom, and especially The Shadow. The Gray Seal template was adopted by the comic book industry as well, and well into the Twenty-first Century continues to appear there, on television, and in the movies. And now, for the first time ever the complete Jimmie Dale saga is being reprinted in a set of authoritative editions. The personal papers of Gray Seal creator Frank Packard have been consulted for this project, along with various unpublished works of fiction by him that add further insight to the series. Also, a detailed chronology has been established for the novels so they can be considered in their proper historical setting. The definitive Gray Seal collection is finally here, beginning with the novel that forever changed adventure fiction - and the larger world of popular entertainment.

Author : Frank L. Packard
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387010052
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Jimmie Dale written by Frank L. Packard and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Frank L. Packard
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338732782X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale written by Frank L. Packard and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-07 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Frank Lucius Packard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jimmie Dale and the Missing Hour written by Frank Lucius Packard and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank L Packard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781707820450
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Jimmie Dale written by Frank L Packard and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmie Dale, alias the Gray Seal, is a sort of vigilante and a master safe-cracker. He goes around keeping thugs from doing heinous things, giving back stolen goods, and protecting the poor. He always ends up looking like the criminal, so the police are after him and so are all the crooks he's stymied. Takes place in NYC. Colorful slang, a bit repetitive, awesome scenes in Chinatown's Chang Foo's opium den.

Author : Frank L Packard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781707820474
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Jimmie Dale written by Frank L Packard and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmie Dale, alias the Gray Seal, is a sort of vigilante and a master safe-cracker. He goes around keeping thugs from doing heinous things, giving back stolen goods, and protecting the poor. He always ends up looking like the criminal, so the police are after him and so are all the crooks he's stymied. Takes place in NYC. Colorful slang, a bit repetitive, awesome scenes in Chinatown's Chang Foo's opium den.

Author : Frank L. Packard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781719480185
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Jimmie Dale. written by Frank L. Packard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cherchez la femme. A wealthy playboy by day, at night Jimmie Dale puts on inconspicuous clothes and becomes The Gray Seal-safe cracker extraordinaire-who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, never taking anything but always leaving a diamond shaped, gray paper "seal" behind to mark his conquest. He is about to give it up, when a woman known only as Tocsin catches and blackmails him-to continue-to war on certain crime organizations. Dale's adventures were generally first published in serial format in the People's Magazine a year before being collected into the novels. A movie serial, Jimmie Dale, Alias the Grey Seal (movie serial) based on the stories was created in 1917.

Author : Frank Lucius Packard
Publisher : New York : A.L. Burt
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Jimmy Dale written by Frank Lucius Packard and published by New York : A.L. Burt. This book was released on 1917 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Lucius Packard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale written by Frank Lucius Packard and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: