Unlike the 15 adult books, the JAL books have some information about Studio, viz. a printing date of 1952 and an address, the Bloorhill Building on the Kingsway in Toronto. This ties in with information in the 1953 Toronto City Directory which has Stanley R. Schrag as the manager publishing of Studio at 2842 Bloor St. West, Suite 205. This is the address of the Bloorhill Building which is still there. We met Schrag as the president of Export Publishing Enterprises.
The books are a mixed bag - two classics each available in hundreds of editions, an obscure Jules Verne and one from a very obscure author. All are digest size (139mm x 202mm) and 96 pages.
J1 The Blockade Runners by Jule Verne. First published in 1871 as Les forceurs de blocus.
J2 Dawn Patrol by Thomson Burtis. First published in the June 1924 issue of American Boy. As far as I can tell this is the only book appearance.
J3 Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp. Three stories - Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp, The Three Sisters, and The Enchanted Horse.
J4 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
Studio J3 - 1952
Studio J3 back
The protagonist in the Thomson Burtis story Dawn Patrol is Russ Farrell. There were several Russ Farrell stories and serials published in American Boy magazine.
ReplyDeleteDawn Patrol was later published in a collection of eight Burtis stories titled Russ Farrell, Airman by Doubleday Page in 1924.
The story is only about 30 pages long, so I assume that other Burtis stories were in the 96 page JAL title. Do you know know the names of any other story titles in the J2 JAL Dawn Patrol?