Roy Rockwood

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.

Series

The following series used the Roy Rockwood pseudonym:

Deep Sea
Dave Fearless
Great Marvel
Speedwell Boys
Dave Dashaway
Bomba, the Jungle Boy

Edward Stratemeyer used the pseudonym for the serialized story Joe Johnson, the Bicycle Wonder, published in Young Sports of America. He also used Roy Rockwood for Lost in the Land of Ice and The Rival Ocean Divers, 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.

Known authors

The Dave Dashaway series was written by Weldon J. Cobb. Howard R. Garis contributed to the Great Marvel series. In 1926 Leslie McFarlane was hired to write a Dave Fearless novel. John Duffield wrote many of the Bomba, the Jungle Boy novels.