The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale

By Frank L. Packard

Jimmie Dale is a fictional character created by Frank L. Packard. He was a wealthy playboy by day, but at night put on a costume and became The Gray Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a diamond shaped, gray paper "seal" behind to mark his conquest, but never taking anything. He was just doing it for "the sheer deviltry of it" at first, but when a woman catches him she blackmails him to war on certain crime organizations. Jimmie Dale/The Gray Seal is often credited with popularizing and evolving what would greatly influence later pulp and comic book heroes. He also established the concept of a hero's secret hideout or lair, The Sanctuary, a precursor of the Batcave or the Fortress of Solitude.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 14, 2013
• ISBN: 9781105729232

Reviews for The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale

[gttexas · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Part One quickly becomes repetitious, but Part Two is actually quite good!

[kylekatz · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Jimmie Dale, alias the Gray Seal, is a sort of vigilante and a master safe-cracker. He goes around keeping thugs from doing heinous things, giving back stolen goods, and protecting the poor. He always ends up looking like the criminal, so the police are after him and so are all the crooks he's stymied. Takes place in NYC. Colorful slang, a bit repetitive, awesome scenes in Chinatown's Chang Foo's opium den.