Article: An adventure on every page; The heroes and villains thrilled generations of children. Now one of those boys has turned his passion for story papers into a scholarly book. David Charters reports.(Features)

Byline: David Charters

THE boy's keen eyes sucked the words on the rustling pages into his imagination, as a torch glowed in the cave made from his sheets and blankets.

Ssshh, don't make a sound. Mum and Dad think you are fast asleep. They don't know that you have journeyed to another land of mystery and derring-do, faraway from the drizzle rapping greyly on the bedroom window.

And the words became vivid pictures of horses galloping across the endless African veldt, pausing only at the gatherings of noble warriors around the spitting campfire.

This was the world of square-jawed bravery and skulking evil, where decency was locked in an ...

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