When I joined the list, I posted an inquiry about some pulp
and digest magazine writers that have been translated but
about whom I couldn't find any information - at the time. Now
I know more and I thought I'd shed some light on these guys.
(This is a rather long message, so if you're not interested,
just skip it.)
John Kobler: wrote for Dime Mystery Book, a series about true
crimes, in the thirties
Richard Dermony: wrote for Black Mask in the fourties, had a
series about Doctor, who seems to have been some kind of
mastermind criminal
Robert Martin: wrote about P.I. Jim Bennett and for Justice
in the fifties (I think some of you know the guy)
Robert Turner: wrote paperbacks in the fifties and sixties
and apparently short stories as well
John Lawrence: a series about Marquis of Broadway, a tough
cop, in Detective Tales (I believe), wrote also for Black
Mask
William G. Bogart: a pulp hack with enormous output, wrote
for Doc Savage, Clues, Double Action Detective, Feds, Mammoth
Detective, Skipper and Shadow, a series about Johnny Saxon in
the fourties, six or so novels
J.J. des Ormeaux: wrote for Clues and Crime Busters, at least
two P.I's: Walter Murphy and Nick Quillan
Emile Tepperman: wrote for hero pulps, created Ed Race, a
circus performer and P.I. who has two guns and who uses them
with skill! Wrote for 10-Story Detective, Clues and Ace G-Man
Stories, in this one a series about Suicide Squad
George Bruce: created Information Office for Detective Tales,
wrote for Black Aces, Thrilling Detective etc., did
screenplays in Hollywood, e.g. Phil Karlson's "Kansas City
Confidential" (1952) and James Whale's
"The Man in the Iron Mask" (1939)
George Alden Edson: wrote for Terror Tales
H.M. Appel: a pseudonym of Wayne Rogers, who wrote for Terror
Tales and Horror Stories, also some P.I. and hero pulp
stuff
Edward S. Williams: wrote for Black Mask and created The
Voice for Ace G-Man Stories (guy fighted the criminals by
pretending to be paralyzed! can you beat that?)
Franklin Martin: created Malachi Gunn for Detective
Tales
Henry Herbert Knibbs: wrote western and adventure stories
from the early century on
Gordon MacGreagh: wrote for Weird Tales and Adventure, exotic
adventure stuff
William Chamberlain: war stories, couple of sci-fi novels in
the sixties
D.L. Champion: real name Jack D'Arcy, invented Richard Curtis
Van Loan AKA Phantom Detective in the thirties and at least
every pulp writer at the time wrote at least one Phantom
Detective (some were reprinted in the sixties under the name
Robert Wallace)
Laurence Donovan: another pulp hack, wrote for Doc Savage,
Crime Busters, Sinister Stories, Phantom Detective etc.
There were also couple of names about which I still know
nothing. Woosnam Mills appears to have been British, Jim
Kjelgaard wrote western and adventure for children, but as
for Charles Larson and John Whiting I'm still hunting them
down.
I inquired also about pulp characters. I managed to pin Uncle
Tubby down, as some of you may remember, but no one else. (He
was created by Ray Cummings and is not hardboiled.)
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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