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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: Doc Savage author
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 07:52:15 EST
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[Catching up on some old business...]

> From:	convexs!ayers  9-NOV-**** 02:32

>> The official author is 'Kenneth Robeson' which was a house name. The Doc
>> Savage books were written by a number of people, but the primary author was
>> Lester Dent (I believe there were four or five others in the 181 book
>> series). 
 
> Close enough. The records of the time are sketchy.

Not particularly. Pulp fan Will Murray cracked the authorship of all of the
Doc Savage stories, first by stylistic examination, second by going through
the Street and Smith payment records, and third by going through Lester Dent's
papers. The biggest complication was in tracking down the stories that were
contracted to Dent, but were sub-contracted by Dent out to other pulp authors
such as Ryerson Johnson. Will detailed all of this (as well as including a
detailed bibliography) in a fanzine on the pulps that he published/edited,
called DUENDE (which he published some 7-8 years ago).

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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