Jack Wright was the hero of a popular series of Victorian science fiction dime novel

Dime novel

Dime novel, though it has a specific meaning, has also become a catch-all term for several different forms of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S...

s and story paper

Story paper

*This article is about British Story papers. For the U.S. version, see Dime novel.A story paper is a periodical publication similar to a literary magazine, but featuring illustrations and text stories, and aimed towards children and teenagers...

s written by Luis Senarens

Luis Senarens

Luis Philip Senarens was an American dime novel writer specializing in science fiction, once called "the American Jules Verne". He grew up in a Cuban-American family in Brooklyn....

, the so-called "American Jules Verne". A few stories are also credited to Francis W. Doughty. Jack appeared in original stories from in 1891 to 1896 for a total of 121 stories.

Senarens also popularized the Frank Reade

Frank Reade

Frank Reade was the protagonist of a series of dime novels published primarily for boys. The first novel, Frank Reade and His Steam Man of the Plains, an imitation of Edward Ellis's "The Steam Man of the Prairies" , was written by Harry Enton and serialized in the Frank Tousey juvenile magazine...

 dime novel series, having taken the reins from Harry Enton (real name Harold Cohen). Jack Wright appeared in Frank Tousey's Boys of New York and Boys' Star Library, and then migrated to Happy Days. These stories were later reprinted in the dime novel

Dime novel

Dime novel, though it has a specific meaning, has also become a catch-all term for several different forms of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S...

 Pluck and Luck. Jack Wright is one of the so-called Edisonade

Edisonade

"Edisonade" is a modern term, coined in 1993 by John Clute in his and Peter Nicholls' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, for stories based around a brilliant young inventor and his inventions, many of which would now be classified as science fiction...

characters.

Examples

Jack Wright, The Boy Inventor (1891)

Jack Wright And His Electric Turtle (1891)

Jack Wright's Submarine Catamaran (1891)

Jack Wright And His Ocean Racer (1891)

Jack Wright And His Electric Canoe (1891)

Jack Wright's Air And Water Cutter (1891)

Jack Wright And His Magnetic Motor (1891)

Jack Wright And His Under-Water Iron-clad (1891)

Jack Wright And His Electric Deer (1892)

Jack Wright And His Prairie Engine (1892)

Jack Wright And His Electric Air Schooner (1892)

Jack Wright And His Electric Sea-Motor (1892)

Jack Wright And His Ocean Sleuth-Hound (1892)

Jack Wright And His Dandy Of The Deep (1892)

Jack Wright And Electric Torpedo Ram (1892)

Jack Wright And His Deep Sea Monitor (1892)

Jack Wright, The Boy Inventor, Exploring Central Asia (1892)

Jack Wright And His Ocean Plunger (1892)

Jack Wright And His Electric 'Sea-Ghost' (1892)

Jack Wright, The Boy Inventor, And His Deep Sea Diving Bell (1892)

Jack Wright, The Boy Inventor, And His Electric Tricycle-Boat (1892)

Jack Wright And His Undersea Wrecking Raft (1892)

Jack Wright And His Terror Of The Seas (1892)

Jack Wright And His Electric Diving Boat (1892)

Jack Wright And His Submarine Yacht (1892)

Jack Wright And His Electric Gunboat (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Sea Launch (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Bicycle-Boat (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Side-Wheel Boat (1893)

Jack Wright's Wonder Of The Waves (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Exploring Ship (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Man-of-War (1893)

Jack Wright And His Submarine Torpedo-Tug (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Sea-Demon (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric 'Whale' (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Marine 'Rover' (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Deep Sea Cutter (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Monarch Of The Ocean (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Devil-Fish (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Demon Of The Plains (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Balloon Ship (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Locomotive (1893)

Jack Wright And His Iron-clad Air-Motor (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Tricycle (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Dynamo Boat (1893)

Jack Wright And His Flying Torpedo (1893)

Jack Wright And His Prairie Privateer (1893)

Jack Wright And His Naval Cruiser (1893)

Jack Wright, The Boy Inventor, And His Whaleback Privateer (1893)

Jack Wright And His Electric Phantom Boat (1893)

Jack Wright And His Winged Gunboat (1894)

Jack Wright And His Electric Flyer (1894)

Jack Wright, The Boy Inventor's Electric Sledge Boat (1894)

Jack Wright And His Electric Express Wagon (1894)

Jack Wright And His Submarine Explorer (1894)

Jack Wright And His Demon Of The Air (1894)

Jack Wright And His Electric Ripper (1894)

Jack Wright And His King Of The Sea (1894)

Jack Wright And His Electric Balloons (1894)

Jack Wright And His Imp Of The Ocean (1894)

Jack Wright And His Electric Cab (1894)

Jack Wright And His Flying Phantom (1894)

Jack Wright And His Submarine Warship (1894)

Jack Wright And His Prairie Yacht (1894)

Jack Wright And His Electric Air Rocket (1894)

Jack Wright And His Submarine Destroyer (1894)

Jack Wright And His Electric Battery Diver (1894)

Jack Wright And His Electric Stage (1894)

Jack Wright And His Wheel Of The Wind (1894)

Jack Wright And The Head-Hunters Of The African Coast (1894)

Jack Wright And The Wild Boy Of The Woods (1894)

Jack Wright Among The Demons Of The Ocean (1894)

Jack Wright, The Wizard Of Wrightstown And His Electric Dragon (1894)

Jack Wright's Electric Land-Clipper (1894)

Jack Wright, The Boy Inventor, And His Phantom Frigate (1895)

Jack Wright And His Air-Ship On Wheels (1895)

Jack Wright And His Electric Roadster In The Desert Of Death (1895)

Jack Wright's Ocean Marvel (1895)

Jack Wright And His Electric Soaring Machine (1895)

Jack Wright And His Electric Battery Car (1895)

Jack Wright And His Electric Sea Horse (1895)

Jack Wright And His Electric Balloon Boat (1895)

Jack Wright, The Boy Inventor, Working For The Union Pacific (1895)

Jack Wright And His Electric Air Monitor (1895)

Jack Wright And His Electric Submarine Ranger (1895)

Jack Wright And Frank Reade, Jr. (1896)

Jack Wright, The Boy Inventor, And The Smugglers (1896)

Jack Wright And His New Electric Horse (1896)