Roy Rockwood was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for boy's adventure books. The name is mostly well-remembered for the Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1926-1937) and Great Marvel series (1906- 1935). The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the producer of a number of series for children and adults including the Nancy Drew mysteries, the Hardy Boys, and others. The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the creation of Edward Stratemeyer, whose ambition was to be a writer la Horatio Alger. He succeeded in this ambition (eventually even writing eleven books under the pseudonym "Horatio Alger"), turning out inspirational, up-by-the-bootstraps tales. In Stratemeyer's view, it was not the promise of sex or violence that made such reading attractive to boys; it was the thrill of feeling "grown-up" and the desire for a series of stories, an "I want some more" syndrome. Works written under that name include: Five Thousand Miles Underground; or, The Mystery of the Centre of the Earth (1908), Jack North's Treasure Hunt (1907) and Lost on the Moon; or, In Quest of the Field of Diamonds (1911).
Bomba the Jungle Boy
Roy Rockwood, Karl Wurf
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Walter Jon Williams, Anna Tambour, N.M. Cedeño, Mark Thielman, Fritz Leiber, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Hal Charles, George O. Smith, Roy Rockwood, Day Keene
bookOn a Torn-Away World
Roy Rockwood
bookFive Thousand Miles Underground
Roy Rockwood
bookLost on the Moon
Roy Rockwood
bookDave Fearless and the Cave of Mystery
Roy Rockwood
bookBomba, the Jungle Boy on the Underground River
Roy Rockwood
bookBomba, the Jungle Boy and the Abandoned City
Roy Rockwood
bookBomba, the Jungle Boy on Jaguar Island
Roy Rockwood
bookDave Dashaway, the Young Aviator
Roy Rockwood
bookBomba, the Jungle Boy at the Giant Cataract
Roy Rockwood
bookDave Dashaway, Air Champion
Roy Rockwood
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