Pluck and Luck: Complete Stories of Adventure was an American dime novel first published by Frank Tousey and was the longest-running dime novel.[1] It numbered 1605 issues from January 12, 1898 to March 5, 1929. The 32-page magazine was semi-monthly for the first 22 issues and then weekly. Its size was 8 x 11 inches (through No. 1144) and 6 x 9 inches thereafter, and it featured color covers. Issues 1002 to 1464 were published by Harry Wolff and the rest by Westbury.
It primarily featured stories of adventure covering subjects including fire fighters, railroads, American Revolution, the American Civil War, frontier, finance and success, temperance, circus, science fiction, and travel and exploration. The principal series character was Jack Wright.
All the stories were reprints from Tousey story papers Boys of New York, Golden Weekly, Happy Days, and Young Men of America.[1]
Authors included Cecil Burleigh, Augustus Comstock, Francis W. Doughty, Thomas W. Hanshew, Walter Fenton Mott, Dennis O'Sullivan, Luis Senarens, Harvey K. Shackleford, Cornelius Shea, George G. Small, William Howard Van Orden and others writing under house names.[1]
^ abcThe Dime Novel Companion: A Source Book, J. Randolph Cox, Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN 0313256748 (ebook 0313095361).
PluckandLuck: Complete Stories of Adventure was an American dime novel first published by Frank Tousey and was the longest-running dime novel. It numbered...
Secret Service, PluckandLuck, Fame and Fortune and Wild West Weekly. These two series were purchased by Street & Smith in 1926 and converted into pulp...
and set up a small library for her use, consisting of fairy tales, fantasies, and books regarded typically as of interest to boys only – the "pluck and...
and Co., Boston, 1898. See: copy at the Internet Archive The Witch Hunter's Wards; or The Hunted Orphans of Salem by Richard R. Montgomery, Pluckand...
demise. TO "OGEDENGBE" - my pact and tact TO "NIMBE" - my haunt and vaunt TO "DOYIN" - my pluckandluck I give and devise and bequeath unto the Nigerian National...
Vim Comedy Company was a short-lived movie studio in Jacksonville, Florida and New York City. Vim bought out Siegmund Lubin's Lubin Manufacturing Company...
New York Tribune, The Detroit Athletic Club News, and The Consolidated Press Association. PluckAndLuck - Henry Holt & Company, 1925. 295 p. - 50 essays...
(1916) as Jabs The High Sign (1916) as Jabs PluckandLuck (1916) as Jabs Love and Lather (1916) as Jabs Hired and Fired (1916) as Jabs The Try Out (1916)...
Retrieved July 26, 2015. Tommy George (September 14, 1986). "U-M plucks Irish luck: ND misses FG at end; it's 24-23". Detroit Free Press. pp. 1D, 17D...
ballooning was due to "their enormous persistence ... and considerable confidence, pluck, andluck". After Thomas G. W. Settle's record flight in the Piccards'...
know what it was and just plucked a feather from it, careless of the consequences. That night, he had a dream where he was in a palace and there were ghosts...
it with luck, pluck, and a little country charm.” Originally based on real-life farming neighbors in Washington state, United States, Ma and Pa Kettle...
Always in Luck, or Working for a Living (1887) Among the Missing, or The Boy They Could Not Beat (1890) Breaking Away, or Pluck Brings Luck (1887) Building...
Lifetime Achievement Award". NDTV. Retrieved 25 April 2023. "Loads of pluck, not much luck for Padmakar Shivalkar". Retrieved 16 March 2013. Tamil Nadu v Bombay...
lecture topics were "Toussaint L'Ouverture," "Pluck versus Luck," "The Rights of Women," "Temperance," and "The Rights of the Negro." Later in his life...
favored topics were "Toussaint L'Ouverture," "Pluck versus Luck," "The Rights of Women," "Temperance" and "The Rights of the Negro." They had three children:...
Middle Finger and the Law" (pdf). UC Davis Law Review. 41. SSRN 982405. "Finger Gesture Guide". Simply Body Language. SteNet Services B.V. "Pluck Yew". Snopes...
beds for good luck. The tradition later was found in England, when young men would kiss women standing under the mistletoe, and would pluck a berry from...
traveled to Los Angeles and wrote "Good Luck Bad Luck" and "No One Believes in Love Anymore". She then went back to London and wrote "Mountaineers", followed...
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