Dixon Hawke
D C Thomson Ltd., based in Dundee, were the major rivals of Amalgamated Press for whom Brooks contributed most of his stories. Because of their location, they were less afflicted by paper shortages and other problems which eventually brought so many of the southern-based story papers to an end, and they have dominated the market since that time. Brooks already had a relationship with Thomson through his Dixon Hawke and Marco stories, and as Amalgamated Press struggled, he contributed more to the Scottish publishers.
In the period between 1923 to 1937 Brooks had written twenty-six Dixon Hawke Library stories, most of them featuring Marco the Miracle Man, a clone of Waldo. Although the characters are Sexton Blake copies, many of the stories are original.
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116 |
10-Dec-23 |
Marko the Miracle Man |
Marko story |
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119 |
21-Jan-24 |
The Glendale Lodge Mystery |
Marko story |
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130 |
23-Jun-24 |
Marko’s Amazing Bid |
Marko story |
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132 |
27-Jul-24 |
Marko at Wembley |
Marko story |
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153 |
11-May-25 |
Marko’s Double |
Marko story |
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165 |
28-Oct-25 |
Marko’s Lucky Dip |
Marko story |
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182 |
21-Jun-27 |
Marko, the Bluffer |
Marko story |
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199 |
30-Jul-27 |
Marko - You’re a Wonder |
Marko story |
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224 |
30-Jun-28 |
Marko’s Day of Thrills |
Marko story |
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241 |
23-Feb-29 |
The Trail of the Mandarins
Double |
Marko story |
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253 |
10-Aug-29 |
Bully Doyle’s Tattooed Trunk |
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254 |
24-Aug-29 |
The Fourth Victim |
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258 |
19-Oct-29 |
The Midget of Mystery |
The Microbe story |
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268 |
08-Mar-30 |
Marko’s Surprise Item from
2LO |
Marko story |
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290 |
10-Jan-31 |
The Riddle of the Rajah’s
Sword |
Rewritten as “The Gretton Murder Case” by Carleton Ross, 1942 Unpub. |
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297 |
18-Apr-31 |
Dixon Hawke’s Desert Patrol |
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301 |
13-Jun-31 |
The Circle of Silence |
Rewritten from UJ 2/917, Rewritten as NLL 2NS/10 and as “Nice Day for a Murder” by Victor Gunn 1945 |
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366 |
09-Dec-33 |
Mr Dexter’s Mystery Field |
Based on UJ 2/1357, Rewritten as “The Strange Case of the Antlered Man” by E S Brooks 1935, and DW serial 304-317 |
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380 |
23-Jun-35 |
The Frozen Man’s Double |
Rewritten from UJ 2/1364, Rewritten as part of “The Dead Man Laughs” by Victor Gunn 1944 |
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385 |
01-Sep-34 |
The Miracle Man’s Lucky Day |
Marko story |
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397 |
16-Feb-35 |
Marko’s Hanging Witness |
Marko story |
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406 |
22-Jun-35 |
The Clue of the Crimson Eye |
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412 |
14-Sep-35 |
The Amazing Marko |
Marko story |
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426 |
14-Mar-36 |
The Man of Terror |
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457 |
05-Jun-37 |
When the Gaunt Dog Howled |
Rewritten as part of “Murder On Ice” by Victor Gunn 1951 |
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466 |
09-Oct-37 |
The Return of Marko, the
Miracle Man |
Marko story. Half book-length story. |
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Note: (i) A second story “The Miser of Mortlake” concerning the character the Microbe who appeared in no. 258 was written and paid for but never published.
(ii) The character of Marko made further appearances with Dixon Hawke in D C Thomson’s The Adventure, but it is extremely unlikely that ESB played any part in the writing of these stories.