Hans Stark, the aviator devil

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Hans Stark, the Aviator Devil was a booklet series published in 1914 and 1919 by the Berlin publisher Willi Pinkert . The series, which was continued in two editions under the title Hans Stark, the Spaceman , had 38 volumes.

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The focus of the series is on the futuristic aircraft, which can also be used as a submarine, with enormous dimensions for the times. The eponymous hero builds this and experiences his adventures with it.

The individual booklets cost 10 pfennigs each .

Volumes

Issues 1 to 30 were published in 1914, followed by issues from numbers 31 to 38 in 1919 and 1920.

  1. A hundred million through the air
  2. In the land of the Sorreks
  3. In the Peter Paul Fortress
  4. Among Mexican insurgents
  5. A gambling den in the air
  6. In the fight against smugglers
  7. In the hands of the strangling sect
  8. The tunnel destroyers
  9. The treasure in the Australian sea
  10. The missing jeweler
  11. The millionaire thief
  12. The end of a traitor
  13. The Battle of the Bulajawa Mountains
  14. Escaped death
  15. The gold count
  16. Among human wolves
  17. The naval battle in the Sea of ​​Japan
  18. In captivity by the Indians
  19. Aristo's robbers
  20. A drama in Siberia
  21. In the land of the Zulu people
  22. Jack Booth, the traitor
  23. The Koribri pirates
  24. The ghost ship in the ocean
  25. The annihilation of the slave trader
  26. A youthful hero pilot
  27. In the gorges of Nevada
  28. The secret of the garage
  29. In dreamland
  30. In the shallows of the crater
  31. The victims of the Mount of Atonement
  32. In the fight with Kabyle
  33. The jewel swindlers
  34. Between the icebergs
  35. Fight in Senegal
  36. The wreckers
  37. Among Chinese beasts
  38. The convict of Sebastopol

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Stark, der Fliegerteufel / Hans Stark, der Weltraumfahrer (booklet series of novels) , information page on fictionfantasy.de, accessed on March 17, 2013
  2. ^ German-language novel booklets before 1945
  3. ↑ Roland Innerhofer: German Science Fiction 1870-1914: Reconstruction and analysis of the beginnings of a genre . Böhlau, Wien, Berlin, Weimar, 1996, p. 173, note 87 ( Google Books )