Collectibles: Aventuras de Tom Tyler fan fiction series

Probably one of the rarest paper film collectible on Tom Tyler coming out of Spain is the twenty-one issue booklet set, Aventuras de Tom Tyler. Arranged and written as a serial, these booklets measure 6 ½” x 9 3/4” in size, made from newspaper quality paper and published by El Gato Negro, Barcelona Spain during the late 1920’s or early 1930’s. Each issue is eight pages long and contains two black and white illustrations.

Unlike the Biblioteca Films film booklets, Aventuras de Tom Tyler is an early type of fan fiction based on the American actor Tom Tyler. Each issue has a masthead with an illustration of Tom at the left and the words Aventuras de Tom Tyler in red and black, along with “El Rey de los Cow-Boys” underneath, against a yellow sky, with a desert and mountain at the bottom. Below the masthead is a full color comic book style illustration of Tom in an exciting scene from the story inside. These scenes include the following: Tom being tied to a runaway

Tom Tyler is not the only American actor to get a series of fan fiction created in his name; El Gato Negro also published series with Shirley Temple and Tom Mix in a similar format.