Reference in Fiction
The "Union Jack" as well as "the "Halfpenny Marvel" and "Pluck" are referenced by James Joyce in the short story "An Encounter", part of Joyce's "Dubliners". These magazines are mentioned as highly popular among Dublin schoolboys of the time, who are especially attacted to the Wild West stories published in them.
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