Bowery Billy in Brooklyn -- July 1906
Dime novels, and cheaper pulp fiction magazines, were popular from the middle nineteenth century through the early twentieth century.
-- Library, University of Missouri
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Bonco was a parlour game popular from the 19th C but became a term for various illegal activities involving scams, etc. Peaked in the 20s during prohibition, where it was played at speakeasies and gambling joints. There was a Bonco King who eventually was brought to justice in the 20s.
That brings us onto John R Conway. This appears as one of many pen names of William Wallace Cook, who wrote for what we called 'penny dreadfuls' and comics, etc., during this period.
As for the Bowery Boy comic, John R Conway was the pen name shared by both Cook and an Earnest A Young.
-- Ian (fulvue)
Bowery Billy in Brooklyn -- July 1906
Dime novels, and cheaper pulp fiction magazines, were popular from the middle nineteenth century through the early twentieth century.
-- Library, University of Missouri
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Bonco was a parlour game popular from the 19th C but became a term for various illegal activities involving scams, etc. Peaked in the 20s during prohibition, where it was played at speakeasies and gambling joints. There was a Bonco King who eventually was brought to justice in the 20s.
That brings us onto John R Conway. This appears as one of many pen names of William Wallace Cook, who wrote for what we called 'penny dreadfuls' and comics, etc., during this period.
As for the Bowery Boy comic, John R Conway was the pen name shared by both Cook and an Earnest A Young.
-- Ian (fulvue)