Tip Top Weekly July 30, 1904 (Dick Merriwell's Phantom

New York: Street & Smith. Fair. 1904. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This magazine has illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The magazine is in Fair condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers of the magazine have edge tears, nicks, and the spine of the covers are mostly separated. A previous owner has added new staples to the magazine. The text pages are clean, but noticeably toned due to the acid content of the paper used. There is a time ticket adhered to the inside front cover of the magazine. "Frank Merriwell is a fictional character appearing in a series of novels and short stories by Gilbert Patten, who wrote under the pseudonym Burt L. Standish. The character appeared in over 200 dime novels between 1896 and 1930 (some between 1927 and 1930 were written by other authors with the same pen name) , numerous radio dramas in 1934 and again from 1946 through 1949, a comic strip from 1928 through 1936, a comic book (four issues) Frank Merriwell At Yale, and a 12-episode serialized film in 1936. The book series was relaunched (with a different author) in 1965, but only three books were published. " .