Roy Rockwood
Template:Short description 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.<ref name= "Keeline">James D. Keeline, Stratemeyer Snyndicate web page</ref>
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The following series used the Roy Rockwood pseudonym:<ref>Axe, John All About Collecting Boys' Series Books, pages 14-15, Hobby House Press, 2002</ref>
- Deep Sea (1905–1908; the three books in the series were republished as the first three Dave Fearless books<ref>James D. Keeline, Stratemeyer Snyndicate web page</ref>)
- 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.<ref name= "Keeline" />
Known authorsEdit
The Dave Dashaway series was written by Weldon J. Cobb.<ref>Erisman, Fred Boys’ Books, Boys' Dreams, and the Mystique of Flight, pages 55 - 58, Texas Christian University Press, 2006</ref> Howard R. Garis contributed to the Great Marvel series.<ref>Syracuse University - Howard R. Garis papers</ref> In 1926 Leslie McFarlane was hired to write a Dave Fearless novel.<ref>Westfahl, Gary, Science Fiction, Children’s Literature, and Popular Culture, page 19, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000</ref> John Duffield wrote many of the Bomba, the Jungle Boy novels.<ref>Lupoff, Richard, Master of Adventure, page 184, Bison Books, 2005</ref>
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