Newspaper Novels Part X

In part VIII of my Newspaper Novels series I discussed the The Bangor Daily News "Book of the Week Complete Novel". I mentioned that the Daily News started using the Toronto Star Weekly novels in 1941 but had published their own at least for a couple of years. That's not entirely true. The Bangor Daily News novels were also seen in The Philadelphia Inquirer. The inserts have two differences. The Philadelphia version's illustrations are in colour and the Bangor version is 7.4 cm/3 inches longer with decorative features at the top and bottom of each page.

Did both newspapers get their novels from another source or did one create?

Here are three more.

October 28, 1939 - The Nation's Missing Guest by Hulbert Footner (Harper & Brothers, 1939)

August 26, 1939 - Moon Over Acadie by Louis Arthur Cunningham (Penn, 1937)

March 30, 1940 - Border of Blades by H. Bedford-Jones and W. R. Foran (first separate - first seen in the July 1913 issue of The Argosy)

Bangor Daily News - August 26, 1939

Bangor Daily News - March 30, 1940

Bangor Daily News - October 28, 1939

Newspaper Novels Part VIII

In a recent post I listed nine American newspapers that used the Canadian Star Weekly novel insert each Saturday or Sunday in the forties and fifties. Here is one that at least for a couple of years published its own novels. 

The Bangor Daily News published their own novel inserts in at least 1939 and 1940 then started using the Star Weekly versions from 1941 to 1949. 

Here are three of the early novels.

June 3, 1939 - Blind Man's Year by Warwick Deeping (Cassell, 1937)

October 21, 1939 - The Dark Wing by Arthur Stringer (Bobbs-Merrill, 1939)

January 27, 1940 - The Dragon's Teeth by Ellery Queen (Frederick A. Stokes, 1939)

The Bangor Daily News - October 21, 1939

The Bangor Daily News - January 27, 1940

The Bangor Daily News -  June 3, 1939