This series ran for 321 issues and established almost all the conventions of the genre, from the lurid and outlandish story to the melodramatic double titling used throughout the series, which ended in the 1920s. Most of the stories were frontier tales reprinted from the numerous serials in the story papers and other sources,Lax copyright enforcement allowed the publication of many foreign literary works without payment of royalties. but many were original stories.
This series ran for 321 issue.s and established almost all the conventions of the genre, from the lurid and. outlandish story to the melodramatic double titling used throughout the series which ended in the 1920s. Most of the stories were frontier tales reprinted from the numerous serials in the story ,papers and other sources,Lax copyright enforcement allowed the publication of many foreign literary works without payment of royalties but many were original stories