Talk:Raffles (character)

Connection to A.J. Raffles?
Is there any connection between this Raffles, gentleman thief, and A.J. Raffles, also a gentleman thief? If not, that's rather surprising given the similar names and occupations. In any case, no matter what the (lack of) connection is, I think it'd be good if both articles made some notice of it. Martijn Faassen (talk) 00:59, 6 April 2008 (UTC)


 * How do you mean that? In the real world "Raffles" was certainly chosen by his German creators as the most fitting name for a gentleman thief, and though the differences between the two are large enough to tell them easily apart this Raffles was a real genteman, for starters, it is undisputed that this Raffles was "inspired" by A.J. and that the choice of name was at least partially intended to exploit the market segment formed by people who liked Hornungs creation.


 * In continuity it isn't until #253 of the Dutch series that it is revealed that Lord Lister took the name of the fictional Raffles created by Ernest William Hornung, be it that in Lord Lister’s reality the first name of A.J. Raffles was John!!! So there is certainly a connection between the two. ThW5 (talk) 13:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Note on Analogy
"Both Lord Lister and A.J. Raffles are gentleman thieves called Raffles, as such it cannot be doubted that Lord Lister has been created to exploit the market for "Raffles" like stories, not unlike the later creation of Batman as a reaction to the success of The Shadow or The Phantom". The first Batman story copied a Shadow novel (Partners of Peril) and different companies produced the two properties. Since DC publishes both Superman and the Batman, the situation does not really apply. ```````Enda80 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Enda80 (talk • contribs) 03:16, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Oh yes it does, Batman was created AS Superman showed that there was a market comics about caped crime fighters in tights, LordLister was created because A.J.Raffles had shown that that there was a market for stories about gentleman thieves. ThW5 (talk) 18:38, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

German, or Dutch
The only true source used in the article: https://dberents.weebly.com/pulpliteratuur.html is talking about the stories appearing between 1910 en 1967 in Belgium and The Netherlands: die tussen 1910 en 1967 in Nederland en België werd gepubliceerd. I can not find any source that Raffled/Lord Lister originates from Germany. Edoderoo (talk) 09:12, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah, found it already on http://www.wielersportboeken.nl/boek.php?boekid=989 ... The first few were of German origin, and therefor the true origin. But a Dutch writer created a shit load more of these stories, so for many people it looks like the source was Dutch. That might be true for like 90% of the stories, not of the origin. So it's German originally. Edoderoo (talk) 09:15, 4 August 2019 (UTC)