DEL MARTIA, Astron

   House name invented by publisher Stephen FRANCES for his own publishing house, and used there by John Russell FEARN on The Trembling World (1949). The name was then sold on to Gaywood Press, which used it for three more tales: Dawn of Darkness (1951 chap), Space Pirates (1951) and Interstellar Espionage (1952 chap). The latter story features a security officer called Dog who appears also in Spawn of Space (1951) by Franz Harkon, an unattributed pseudonym. A fifth ADM story was advertised but never published, although the name was revived by Frances in a reprint of his One Against Time (1954 as by Hank JANSON; 1969 as by ADM).

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