Abstract
This chapter examines the various contemporary literary and popular media sources on which Yeats drew in creating many of his comic strip series. In many cases these genres featured, often in serial form, in the same publications that featured his strips. The chapter is divided thematically, with the first ‘Crime and Detection’, focusing on Yeats’ detective and criminal characters, including his pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series. The second, ‘Tales of Adventure’, examines series associated with the adventure, travel, and maritime genres that were popular in the second half of the nineteenth century. The third section, ‘Technology and Science Fiction’, focuses on Yeats’ engagement with modernity through tropes associated with the nascent science fiction genre.
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