Sexton Blake

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Sexton Blake in Baku , The Union Jack magazine , 1908

Sexton Blake is a fictional British detective who was invented in 1893. He is the main character of over 5000 stories, written by almost 200 authors, published as a booklet, comic, film, play, television series, radio show or book. Sexton Blake was a popular and well-known character in Britain for much of the 20th century, but has been largely forgotten afterwards.

history

Sexton Blake was created in 1893 by journalist Harry Blyth under the pseudonym Hal Meredeth for Amalgamated Press . The private detective made his first appearance in The Halfpenny Marvel magazine # 6 , published on December 20th.

The Sexton Blake Stories gained fame through their appearance in The Union Jack magazine from 1894, and from 1933 in its successor Detective Weekly until 1940. In addition, from 1915 to 1968, the publisher produced several sexton books in the series The Sexton Blake Library . Blake novels out every month. Stories with Sexton Blake appeared in several other publications and have been translated into various languages. Sexton Blake was briefly published in German by Erich Pabel Verlag in the 1960s .

Blake stories were also implemented as comics - for example from 1939 in the magazine Knockout - and performed as a play.

Both in the silent era and afterwards, Sexton Blake was brought to the silver screen in several films, with the detective being played by Langhorn Burton , George Curzon and David Farrar , among others . In 1968 ITV a television series with Laurence Payne out in the lead role, ten years later, BBC with a six-division of Barry Letts and Jeremy Clyde . After that, largely nothing was released with Sexton Blake.

character

Although the creation of the character Blake and various of his characteristics are attributed to the role model Sherlock Holmes , the stories about Blake were more action and violent than those of Holmes. Blake was a logical thinker, but he was more of an action hero and suffered all sorts of things in his cases.

Often, Blake had bizarre super- villains as opponents. From 1904 he was provided with an assistant, Tinker.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Jess Nevins: The Sexton Blake Page. ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reocities.com archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 6, 2017
  2. ↑ Mark Hodder: Blakiana. Retrieved March 6, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Mark Hodder: A Complete History of Sexton Blake. ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mark-hodder.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 6, 2017
  4. ↑ Mark Hodder: Bibliography Master List. ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mark-hodder.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 6, 2017
  5. ^ Nicolaus Mathies: Sexton Blake . romanhefte-info.de, accessed on March 31, 2018
  6. ↑ IMDb: Sexton Blake (Character). Retrieved March 6, 2017
  7. ↑ Kelly Boyd: Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940. Springer, 2002, ISBN 9780230597181 , p. 92

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