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This Dick didn't boast the costume and secret identity of a superhero, however; he was more a descendant of dime-novel heroes like Frank Merriwell.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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This Dick didn't boast the costume and secret identity of a superhero, however; he was more a descendant of dime-novel heroes like Frank Merriwell.
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Since the 1970s, Mr. Prince has become known as one of the U.S.'s great appropriations artists, tapping into the national cultural zeitgeist with rephotographed Marlboro cowboy ads, erotic dime-novel nurses, muscle-car displays and joke paintings.
An Artist Amasses a Rare Collection Robert P. Walzer 2011
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Wood-pulp literature is the great unrecorded fact of American literature, the successor to the dime-novel as the standard literary diet of a thrill-hungry populace.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Eric Skillman for Criterion: When I was designing the cover for Night and the City, I wanted to find a slightly different idiom to represent 'noir,' to get away from the pulpy, dime-novel look that's normally associated with that era and style.
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Both she and Lazarus may be trapped in dime-novel situations, separately and together, but they nonetheless are complicated, fleshed-out characters, marred by self-hatred and stiffened by pride.
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Wood-pulp literature is the great unrecorded fact of American literature, the successor to the dime-novel as the standard literary diet of a thrill-hungry populace.
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With all these loony threads, conspiracy theorists are having fun weaving dime-novel scenarios.
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He was a lawyer, a rich, well-connected lawyer, graduated from the University of Florida College of Law at twenty-one, a prodigy, a dime-novel hero.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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A torrent of dime-novel bunk from Lawrence of Liberal-abia today, particularly this revealing passage:
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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