Sherlock Holmes Comic Books

168 Pages·2017·12.45 MB·English

by  Mason, Steve

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
&
The World of
Sherlock Holmes
The Crew of the Barque Lone Star
Dallas
• Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle inspired many of the great detective
/ mystery writers
Rex Stout Agatha Christie
Ellery Queen Dorothy Sayers
Ross MacDonald Erle Stanley Gardner
Tony Hillerman Faye Kellerman
Dan Brown
The Written Word
Canon
A Study in Scarlet -1887
The Sign of the Four- 1890
The Hound of the Baskervilles - 1901–1902
The Valley of Fear - 1914–1915
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 1891–1892
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - 1892–1893
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - 1903–1904
The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (including
His Last Bow) - 1908–1913 and 1917)
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - 1921–1927
The Written Word
Pastiches
Over 10,000 published
Some of the More Popular
Nicholas Meyer - 3
Carole Nelson Douglas - 8
Laurie King - 11
August Derleth (continued by
Basil Copper) - 10
Val Andrews - 21
Larry Millett - 6
The Written Word
Books on Sherlock Holmes
The Written Word
Books on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Foreign Editions
Translated into over
100 languages
In Film
75 Actors – over 250 films
1890 – Sherlock Holmes Baffled
1939 – Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce (14 films)
2011 – Sherlock Holmes – A Game of Shadows
Other Famous Actors Playing Holmes
Peter Cushing
John Barrymore
Buster Keaton
Christopher Lee
George C. Scott
… Can You Believe …
“Without a Clue”
On Television
Ronald Howard (1954) – 39
Douglas Wilmer (1964) - 12
Peter Cushing (1968) - 16
Jeremy Brett (1984) - 41
Benedict Cumberbatch (2012) – 9
Johnny Lee Miller (2012) -- 72