Thubway Tham
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Thubway Tham is a pulp fiction
character created by Johnston McCulley
, who was also the creator of Zorro
. He first appeared in Detective Story Magazine on June 4, 1918, and he continued to appear in several pulp fiction publications from the 1910s to the 1960s.
Thubway Tham, as described by McCulley, is "a clever pickpocket, one of the cleverest in the business, and [he works] only in the subway during rush hours." His friends had called him "Subway Sam," but, due to his lisp, his nickname soon became "Thubway Tham."
A typical Thubway Tham story features the pickpocket committing some sort of crime. He is pursued by Detective Craddock, but, due to the cop's own incompetence, Thubway Tham always gets away. The people who Tham robs are usually deserving of the theft. He also often antagonizes bigger criminals to teach them a lesson.
In 2005, Wildside Press
released a collection of Thubway Tham stories entitled Tales of Thubway Tham.
Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines , also collectively known as pulp fiction, refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s. The typical pulp magazine was seven inches wide by ten inches high, half an inch thick, and 128 pages long...
character created by Johnston McCulley
Johnston McCulley
Johnston McCulley was the author of hundreds of stories, fifty novels, numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro...
, who was also the creator of Zorro
Zorro
Zorro is a fictional character created in 1919 by New York-based pulp writer Johnston McCulley. The character has been featured in numerous books, films, television series, and other media....
. He first appeared in Detective Story Magazine on June 4, 1918, and he continued to appear in several pulp fiction publications from the 1910s to the 1960s.
Thubway Tham, as described by McCulley, is "a clever pickpocket, one of the cleverest in the business, and [he works] only in the subway during rush hours." His friends had called him "Subway Sam," but, due to his lisp, his nickname soon became "Thubway Tham."
A typical Thubway Tham story features the pickpocket committing some sort of crime. He is pursued by Detective Craddock, but, due to the cop's own incompetence, Thubway Tham always gets away. The people who Tham robs are usually deserving of the theft. He also often antagonizes bigger criminals to teach them a lesson.
In 2005, Wildside Press
Wildside Press
Wildside Press is an independent publishing company located in Maryland, USA. It was founded in 1989 by John Gregory and Kim Betancourt. While the press was originally conceived as a publisher of speculative fiction in both trade and limited editions, it has broadened out somewhat since then, both...
released a collection of Thubway Tham stories entitled Tales of Thubway Tham.