Last of the Black Flag

This gruesome excerpt tells the tale of the death of Jack’s long-time nemesis Harry Hunston. There is nothing on “Jack Harkaway and his Father,” published by Hogarth House, in Peeps or any of the other reference works, but E. M. Sanchez-Saavedra, author of The Anglo-American Pulp Wars; Edwin Brett vs. Frank Leslie (1996), has this to offer:

“Believe it or not The Haunt of the Black Flag was by the master himself. The following titles are the last ones done while in Frank Leslie's employ. The numbers are the issues of Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly:

After exhausting the Black Hills gold rush centered around Deadwood, Heming returned to Indonesia and Malaya and the pirates he had introduced in After School Days. This time Jack becomes a long-term captive and Young Jack spends three volumes rescuing him. (The first volume's title of course alludes to Capt. Frederick Marryat's Japhet in Search of a Father.)”

Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly

594-602. YOUNG JACK HARKAWAY IN SEARCH OF HIS FATHER (3/9/1878 - 5/4/1878)

603-615. ALL AMONG THE PIRATES; OR, THE SEA FIENDS OF THE MOLUCCAS. Part 2 of "YOUNG JACK HARKAWAY IN SEARCH OF HIS FATHER." (5/11/1878 - 8/3/1878)

616-633. THE ISLE OF PALMS; OR, THE LAST STRONGHOLD OF THE BLACK FLAG. (8/10/1878 - 12/7/1878)

663-665. THE SLAVE OF THE MINE; OR, JACK HARKAWAY IN 'FRISCO. (7/5/1879 - 7/19/1879)