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Issue Details: First known date: 1940... 1940 The Truth About Thunderbolt : Australia's 'Robin Hood'
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  • In William Monckton's foreword to this book, this statement appears: 'Fred Ward was not Thunderbolt. I lived in company with the notorious bushranger, Thunderbolt, at intervals for three years, but never at any time did I meet Fred Ward.' Thunderbolt in this account is identified as Frederick Alfred Britten.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: George M. Dash , 1940 .
      Extent: 158p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Printed by the Criterion Press.
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Annie Rixon , 1942 .
      Printed by Edwards and Shaw
      Alternative title: Captain Thunderbolt
      Extent: 247p.
      Edition info: Significantly revised edition.
      Description: illus., port.
      Reprinted: 1950 , 1952
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Frank Johnson , 1945 .
      Alternative title: Thunderbolt
      Extent: 126p.
      Edition info: Significantly revised edition.
      Note/s:
      • Though Libraries Australia describes this edition as an 'abridged edition of Captain Thunderbolt', there is no such description on the book itself. However, the Foreword and wording of the opening chapter suggest this to be the case.
      Series: Magpie Books Magpie Series Frank Johnson (publisher), series - publisher Popular fiction issued in two separately numbered series with titles in the genres of adventure, mystery, romance, crime and detection. The motto on inside back covers reads: "there is nothing like a Magpie to make the hours fly.' The series claimed to be 'by far the finest and cheapest books yet issued in Australia'. Books in the first series were 5.5 x 8.5 inches and may have been issued in plain wrappers; those in the second series were 5.5 x 7.25 inches with pictorial covers. Price for second series title was two shillings and the books were 'available at all newsagents.' Number in series: 53
    • Forest Lodge, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Annie Rixon , 1970 .
      Printed by Quality Press
      Alternative title: Captain Thunderbolt
      Extent: 267p., [4] leaves of platesp.
      Edition info: Revised and enlarged edition.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Includes a foreword by William Monckton and an introduction by Annie Rixon. The introduction contains minor variations from the ones published in the 1940 and 1950 editions.
      • 'Rewritten with additions, 1970.' (p.7)
      • An author's note in this edition gives the registered copyright date as 1936.
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