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.
Makes me wonder when Bellem found the time to sleep.
ReplyDeleteThere 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.
ReplyDeleteThat'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.
ReplyDeleteBellem. 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.
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