Lawrence Donovan was an American

United States

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 pulp fiction

Pulp magazine

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 writer

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 who wrote several Doc Savage

Doc Savage

Doc Savage is a fictional character originally published in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. He was created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L...

 novel

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s under the pseudonym

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 Kenneth Robeson

Kenneth Robeson

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Doc Savage novels by Donovan

• Murder Melody
• Murder Mirage
• The Men Who Smiled No More
• The Haunted Ocean
• The Black Spot
• Cold Death
• Land of Long Juju
• Mad Eyes
• He Could Stop the World

Donovan also wrote the early Whisperer novels as Clifford Goodrich and The Skipper as Wallace Brooker, surrendering both series and their housenames to other writers in 1937. He contributed novels to other pulp hero series like The Phantom Detective

The Phantom Detective

The Phantom Detective was the second pulp hero character published, after The Shadow. The first issue was released in February of 1933, a month before Doc Savage, which was released in March of 1933. The title continued to be released until 1953, with a total 170 issues...

, The Black Bat

The Black Bat

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, The Masked Detective and some of the Pete Rice short stories in Wild West Weekly. His known personal pen names include Don Laurence, Don Lawrence and Larry Dunn, which he used when contributing to Spicy Detective Stories and Spicy Western Stories.