Dandy Dick; or, The King's Highway (1900-1901), written by Ned Neolan and Ben Brightly and here edited and introduced by J. S. Mackley, was originally serialised in The Halfpenny Marvel over forty-two issues between April 1900 and February 1901. Unlike the earlier penny-dreadful tales of Spring-Heeled Jack, this narrative casts the leaping phantom as a mysterious side figure while its focus turns to the gallant world of English highwaymen...