Victor Appleton

Cover of The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front

Victor Appleton was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and its successors, most famous for being associated with the Tom Swift series of books.[1]

The following series have been published under the Victor Appleton and Victor Appleton II names:[2]

• Tom Swift, 1910–1941
• Motion Picture Chums, 1913–1916
• Moving Picture Boys, 1913–1922
• Movie Boys, 1926–1927
• Don Sturdy, 1925–1935
• Tom Swift, Jr., 1954–1971 (technically, "Victor Appleton II")
• Tom Swift (Third Series), 1981–1984
• Tom Swift (Fourth Series), 1991–1993

Howard R. Garis contributed to the original Tom Swift series.[3] James Duncan Lawrence wrote 23 of the Tom Swift, Jr. novels.[4]

See also

• Roy Rockwood

References

1. James D. Keeline, Stratemeyer Syndicate
2. John Axe, All About Collecting Boys' Series Books, pages 15-16, Hobby House Press, 2002
3. Howard R. Garis papers
4. Open Library on James Duncan Lawrence

External links

• Works by Victor Appleton at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Victor Appleton II at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Victor Appleton at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by or about Victor Appleton at the Internet Archive
• Works by Victor Appleton at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Victor Appleton at Library of Congress, with 102 library catalog records
• Victor Appleton at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Victor Appleton II at LC Authorities (35 records), at WorldCat, and at ISFDB