Jan Mayen (novels)

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Jan Mayen was a science fiction adventure booklet novel series by Paul Alfred Müller , who wrote under the pseudonym Lok Myler . The booklets were published from 1935 to 1938 by A. Bergmann Verlag in Leipzig .

Story and plot

From 1933 Müller wrote the SF-themed adventure series Sun Koh . Since this was set to 150 issues from the start, it was time in 1935 to conceive a new series. Since Sun Koh's success was unbroken towards the end of the series, only a thematically similar series came into question.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, however, the conditions for the publication of entertainment literature had changed significantly. All books and notebooks were affected by the preliminary censorship by the Reichsschrifttumskammer , which, in addition to social and ideological tasks, also successfully tried to contain English and American entertainment literature. As a result, series with American heroes were heavily banned. In order to circumvent such a ban on the series, the death of the black sidekick into the plot of Sun Koh was conceived.

In the case of Jan Mayen, the publisher and author avoided this problem from the start. The main hero was - unlike Sun Koh, who had mysterious Maya ancestors - a German adventurer, whose father Rick Hatmann was a millionaire. After leaving his parents' house, he now fought evil all over the world and was on the move with a nuclear-powered airplane - always preparing for day X, on which he freed Greenland from the eternal ice after 120 volumes and there the "fabulous dream land Thule " (Blurb) should erect.

notebooks

  1. At the end of the world
  2. The fight begins
  3. Riddles in Australia
  4. The trace of gold
  5. The glistening band
  6. The jungle castle
  7. Escape from the swamp
  8. The artificial sun
  9. The trail in the north
  10. Rays from space
  11. Mirror in space
  12. The nuclear missile
  13. Adventurous interlude
  14. The singing pat
  15. The moon fool
  16. Inventor in hypnosis
  17. The diamond miracle
  18. The eternal magnet
  19. The atomic ball
  20. The dream hat
  21. The sun riddle
  22. Ride through hell
  23. Sender of oblivion
  24. The golden coat
  25. Underground world
  26. Atomic laboratory in the rock
  27. The fire emitter
  28. Ten years later
  29. Diamond murder
  30. The avenger
  31. The saving force
  32. The eating ray
  33. Fifty million volts
  34. Base in the north
  35. Decaying matter
  36. The overbacillus
  37. The math puzzle
  38. The steel brain
  39. The stone ellipse
  40. The infrared glasses
  41. The treasure hunter
  42. Sven Horre returns home
  43. Ultrasound crime
  44. Warmth flowing upwards
  45. The heat accumulator
  46. Invisible fire
  47. Adventure in the Himalayas
  48. Bacteria of the primeval world
  49. The plant wizard
  50. The sleeper
  51. Attack on the crane river
  52. Artificial gold
  53. The lookalike
  54. Violan, the over-metal
  55. Building material of the future
  56. 5000 atmospheres stolen
  57. The stratospheric pilots
  58. The north work
  59. The slave stones
  60. Attack on the Congo
  61. The sea in Africa
  62. The rain professor
  63. The glass ball
  64. Tillyt
  65. Alarm over Europe
  66. Attack on the Gulf Stream
  67. The new ice age is looming
  68. Technical soap bubbles
  69. The magic hat
  70. The invisible
  71. The bearing core
  72. The lost memory
  73. Artificial giants
  74. Flaming iron
  75. The over-weapon
  76. The floating continents
  77. The Radium Gorge
  78. 100,000 km above the earth
  79. Danger from space
  80. The jitters
  81. The King of Thule
  82. Prisoner of the dead
  83. Sol tub. E.
  84. Lord of the world
  85. Mystery in Singapore
  86. The mysterious disease
  87. The wild rure
  88. The death ray
  89. The golden curve
  90. Shot through the night
  91. The clairvoyant
  92. Sharks of the Timor Sea
  93. Fire in the steppe
  94. The witch
  95. The wrong face
  96. The green death
  97. Suicide wanted continuously
  98. Burning rock
  99. Journey into the primeval world
  100. The enchanted house
  101. The deep sea diving ball
  102. Prisoners of the deep sea
  103. The explosion
  104. The explosive
  105. The Radiation Bastion
  106. Nuclear fire on Greenland
  107. Artificial diamonds
  108. Night over the stream
  109. Suspended gravity
  110. The mechanical garden
  111. Rift in the South Seas
  112. Stop with hydrogen
  113. The fog men
  114. The trap
  115. Light over the north pole
  116. Great power Thule
  117. The radiation mirror
  118. Guests from space
  119. The sixth continent
  120. Sun over Thule

Between 1949 and 1950, Utopia Verlag published the series Utopia Zukunftsromane - Jan Mayen - The Lord of Atomic Power . There the old booklets were reissued in unchanged order under the author's name Freder van Holk , a pseudonym of Müller. The now dusty plot, however, was not successful again. The Utopia science fiction ended after just 9 issues.

literature

  • Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn , Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature 2. Heyne, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-01064-7 , pp. 730 f., 1157.
  • Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke: Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , pp. 1174-1177.
  • Heinz J. Galle: Sun Koh. The heir to Atlantis and other German supermen. SSI Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-9521172-0-X .
  • Paul Alfred Müller: Sun Koh. The legacy of Atlantis. Contains booklets 1–5 of the first edition. Edited and provided with comments and a historical appendix by Markus R. Bauer and Rolf A. Schmidt. SSI Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-9521172-2-6 .
  • Heinz J. Galle: Popular Reading. Groschenhefte, dime novels and penny dreadfuls from the years 1850 to 1950. Exhibition catalog. (=  Small writings from the University and City Library of Cologne. 10). University and City Library, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-931596-19-2 .
  • Heinz J. Galle: Folk books and book novels. Forays into popular entertainment literature for over 100 years. DvR, Lüneburg 2005–2006.
    • Volume 1: The boom after 1945. 2005, ISBN 3-8334-3232-2 .
    • Volume 2: From the German Empire to the “Third Reich” - 40 years of popular reading material. 2006, ISBN 3-8334-4314-6 .