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The Frank Reade stories are perhaps the best known of the many boys' invention fiction series published in America during the later 19th century. Frank Reade Jr. has appeared as an older man in Alan Moore's
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February 28 through April 24, 1876. The four Frank Reade stories concerned adventures with the character's inventions, various robot-like mechanisms powered by steam.
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of the dirigible-balloon and helicopter type, submersibles, steam-driven and electrical land vehicles, and
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Frank Reade, Jr.’'s New Electric Van; or, Hunting Wild Animals in the Jungles of India
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A very long series of juvenile novels followed which featured the son of Frank Reade,
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Frank Reade, Jr., and His New Steam Man; or The Young Inventor's Trip to the Far West
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Frank Reade, Jr., and His Electric Coach; Or, The Search for the Isle of the Diamonds
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Frank Reade, Jr.'s Electric Air Canoe or The Search for the Valley of the Diamonds
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Frank Reade and His Steam Man of the Plains; Or, The Terror of the West
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Across the Continent on Wings; Or, Frank Reade Jr.'s Greatest Flight
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From Pole to Pole; Or, Frank Reade, Jr.'s Strange Submarine Voyage
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Frank Reade, Jr., and His Queen Clipper of the Clouds
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series that followed. Some were later reprinted in
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