Roy Rockwood Explained
Roy Rockwood was a house pseudonym used by Edward Stratemeyer and the Stratemeyer Syndicate for boy's adventure books. The name is most well-remembered for the Bomba the Jungle Boy series.[1]
Series
The following series used the Roy Rockwood pseudonym:[2]
- Deep Sea (1905 - 1908; the three books in the series were republished as the first three Dave Fearless books[3])
- Dave Fearless (1905 - 1927)
- Great Marvel (1906 - 1935)
- Speedwell Boys (1913 - 1915)
- Dave Dashaway (1913 - 1915)
- Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1926 - 1938)
Edward Stratemeyer used the pseudonym for the serialized story Joe Johnson, the Bicycle Wonder (1895), published in Young Sports of America. He also used Roy Rockwood for Lost in the Land of Ice (1900-1901 – later published as a book under the Capt. Ralph Bonehill pen name) and The Rival Ocean Divers (1901), both serialized in Golden Hours. The Rival Ocean Divers became the first book in the Deep Sea series, and was later used in the Dave Fearless series.
Known authors
The Dave Dashaway series was written by Weldon J. Cobb.[4] Howard R. Garis contributed to the Great Marvel series.[5] In 1926 Leslie McFarlane was hired to write a Dave Fearless novel.[6] John Duffield wrote many of the Bomba, the Jungle Boy novels.[7]
See also
Notes and References
- https://stratemeyer.org/roy-rockwood/ James D. Keeline, Stratemeyer Snyndicate web page
- Axe, John All About Collecting Boys' Series Books, pages 14-15, Hobby House Press, 2002
- https://stratemeyer.org/roy-rockwood/dave-fearless/ James D. Keeline, Stratemeyer Snyndicate web page
- https://books.google.com/books?id=wbnIHn55_BEC&dq=%22Dave+Dashaway%22&pg=PA57 Erisman, Fred Boys’ Books, Boys' Dreams, and the Mystique of Flight, pages 55 - 58, Texas Christian University Press, 2006
- https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/g/garis_hr.htm Syracuse University - Howard R. Garis papers
- https://books.google.com/books?id=HlxJKBEEG9QC&dq=authors+who+wrote+as+Roy+Rockwood&pg=PA19 Westfahl, Gary, Science Fiction, Children’s Literature, and Popular Culture, page 19, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000
- https://books.google.com/books?id=FQkIXCLxdPUC&q=master+of+adventure+bomba&pg=PA184 Lupoff, Richard, Master of Adventure, page 184, Bison Books, 2005
