Sunday, September 07, 2014

Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Spicy-Adventure Stories, February 1940


I sometimes wonder how the Spicy pulps would have survived without Robert Leslie Bellem. He has three stories in this issue of SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES, one under his own name and one each under his pseudonyms Jerome Severs Perry and Harley L. Court. Other authors who show up a lot in the Spicy pulps are represented here by Lew Merrill (old-time pulpster Victor Rousseau) and Edwin Truett Long under his Luke Terry pseudonym. But it's a rare Spicy pulp that doesn't have multiple Bellem stories in it. Which is okay with me, because I always enjoy his work.

4 comments:

Barry Traylor said...

Makes me wonder when Bellem found the time to sleep.

Beb said...

There were a lot of other good writers working the spicy trade. It's true that there a lot of issues when Bellem had three stories under as many names in an issue but I don't think that Spicies were dependent on Bellem's brand of light-hearted mayhem. They could have found substitutes.

James Reasoner said...

That's true. Laurence Donovan, who seemed to show up almost as much as Bellem, could have just written a few more, not to mention E. Hoffmann Price, Victor Rousseau, and Edwin Truett Long. The pages still would've gotten filled.

Rich Harvey said...

Bellem. Cave (Justin Case). Price. Merrill. There comes a point where at least three of these authors appear in every issue, like they're working in shifts.