Turner, E S
Entry updated 16 May 2022. Tagged: Author, Critic.
(1909-2006) UK journalist and nonfiction author who for more than fifty years contributed articles – most of them quirkily factual – to Punch magazine. His first book Boys Will Be Boys: The Story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton, et al (1948; exp rev 1957; exp rev 1975) is a useful survey of Boys' Papers. Later editions briefly covered the 1950s UK horror-Comics controversy, Eagle (see Dan Dare – Pilot of the Future) and, though rather less sympathetically or insightfully, some Superheroes. [DRL]
see also: Dick Barton Strikes Back.
Ernest Sackville Turner
born Liverpool, England: 17 November 1909
died Kingston upon Thames, Surrey: 6 July 2006
works (highly selected)
- Boys Will Be Boys: The Story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton, et al (London: Michael Joseph, 1948) [nonfiction: hb/James Broom Lynne]
- Boys Will Be Boys: The Story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton, et al (London: Michael Joseph, 1957) [nonfiction: exp rev of the above: hb/James Broom Lynne]
- Boys Will Be Boys: The Story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton, et al (London: Michael Joseph, 1975) [nonfiction: further exp rev of the above: hb/James Broom Lynne]
- Boys Will Be Boys: The Story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton, et al (London: Michael Joseph, 1957) [nonfiction: exp rev of the above: hb/James Broom Lynne]
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