Jiří Brdečka, a prolific Czech screenwriter and satirist, created the Lemonade Joe character in a 1940 serial, a parody of dime novels commissioned by the popular magazine "Ahoj na neděli". As the serial progressed, however, the target of the satire shifted from dime novels to Western epics; Brdečka was a self-professed fan of Westerns, citing "Stagecoach", "Wells Fargo" (1937), and "Frontier Marshal" (1939) as the films that sparked his interest in the genre. Brdečka also wrote a nonfiction work about the American frontier, "Kolty bez pozlátka" (1956), de-mythologizing the iconic Western figures of Wild Bill Hickock, Billy the Kid, and Jesse James.