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Dime Novels: Series
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Deadlands crosses over with White Wolf's "Werewolf Wild West" in this savage trio of Dime Novels, starting with Strange Bedfellows. What happens when Ronan Lynch and company are forced to team up with a team of werewolves with some serious attitude issues? And just what was that big explosion out in the desert? Make sure to pick up Savage Passage and Ground Zero to finish up this trilogy!
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Young working men and women—both Yankee and ethnic—composed the bulk of dime-novel readership, and publishers aimed such series as Ten-Cent Irish Novels and Die Deutsche Library directly at ethnic audiences. Nationwide circulation and popular appeal mark the dime-novel market as a precursor of late-twentieth-century mass culture. Although condemned and even restricted in their day as "immoral" influences on impressionable youth, by the beginning of the twenty-first century dime novels were remembered nostalgically as wholesome and innocent entertainment.
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The dime novels are arranged by series title. Series are numbered and listed in ascending chronological order, based on the original publication date of each series. Individual files within each series are arranged in ascending chronological order, based on their publication date. The folder number coincides with the individual issue number; hence, the numbering is not consecutive.
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"Dime novel writers make very good money. Each one of them handles a certain series, and is expected to produce a novel of 30,000 words every week. The sum of fifty dollars is paid for each novel, so the writers make fifty dollars a week. A few of them make a great deal more.
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Utilizing the affordable printing processes of the later 19th century and cheap, low-quality paper, dime novels were published as weekly or monthly serials. The offered convenient and affordable reading to millions of Americans.
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In 1892 the Barber dime debuted, and it lasted until 1916. Of the Barber dime series, the 1894-S is particularly notable; only 24 examples are known to have been struck, of which only nine are known to still exist. One such example sold for US$1.3 million at an auction on March 7 2005, the most ever paid for a dime in auction.[3]
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