the first nancy drew book came out in 1953.
when did the first nancy drew book come out?
1953
the longest-running series of books to feature nancy drew is the original nancy drew series, whose 175 volumes were published from 1930 to 2003. nancy also appeared in 124 titles in "the nancy drew files" and then became the heroine of the "diaries" series. various other series feature the character, such as the "nancy drew notebooks" and "nancy drew on campus". while nancy drew is the central character in each series, continuity is preserved only within one series, not between them all; for example, in concurrently published titles in the nancy drew series and the "nancy drew on campus" series, nancy is respectively dating her boyfriend ned nickerson or broken up with ned nickerson. the two exceptions are the series "super mystery" (also called "a nancy drew and hardy boys super mystery") that ran concurrently with the "files", and shares continuity with those stories and the then-running "hardy boys casefiles", and in 2007 a new "a nancy drew and hardy boys super mystery" series shared continuity with the "girl detective" series.
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nancy drew's popularity continues unabated: in 2002, the first nancy drew book published, "the secret of the old clock", alone sold 150,000 copies, good enough for top-50 ranking in children's books, and other books in the series sold over 100,000 copies each. sales of the hardcover volumes of the original nancy drew series alone has surpassed sales of agatha christie titles, and newer titles in the girl detective series have reached "the new york times" bestseller lists. "entertainment weekly" ranked her seventeenth on its list of "the top 20 heroes" ahead of batman, explaining that drew is the "first female hero embraced by most little girls ... [nancy lives] in an endless summer of never-ending adventures and unlimited potential." the magazine goes on to cite "scooby-doo"s velma dinkley as well as veronica mars as nancy drew's "copycat descendants".
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