"I did once-many times once-but they would have none of my high-faluting flights, although as Captain Mayne Plunkett, the writer of penny dreadfuls for the consumption of England's budding pirates and cowpunchers, I am not without a following, and I have a steady contract for one per month at fifty dollars straight.
"The Spoilers of the Valley"
Robert Watson
At one time engaged in copying plans of projected railways, then acting as assistant scene-painter at fifteen shillings a week, afterwards designing the cheapest and least elegant description of valentines, and subsequently drawing woodcuts for those inferior periodicals pretty generally known as "penny dreadfuls."
"Curiosities of Impecuniosity"
H. G. Somerville
We all owe much sound morality to the penny dreadfuls.
"Orthodoxy"
G. K. Chesterton