John W. Jakes – Part 2: The Magazine and Paperback Years

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John Jakes, after five years in the Pulps, moved on to writing for magazines and novels. His story output slowed a little but he produced at least two novels most years, sometimes under his own name, sometimes under pseudonyms. For historical adventure he used the name Jay Scotland. He used his own name for the hard-boiled detective series starring Johnny Havoc but also wrote the last three Lou Largo novels as William Ard. The 1960s saw John writing tie-ins for Mystery television. This would later lead to him writing for The Man From U. N. C L. E.  and The Planet of the Apes novelizations in the 1970s. He also sold the first (and best) Brak the Barbarian stories to Cele Goldsmith at Fantastic. In the 1970s these would be collected, added to, and sold in paperbacks similar to what Lancer did for Conan and ACE did for Fritz Leiber. During this period, John had the good fortune to see many of his stories illustrated by three of SF’s finest, Ed Emshweiller (Emsh), Virgil Finlay and Gray Morrow.

1956

A Night For Treason (1956)

Wear A Fast Gun (1956)

“Ambush at Arrow River” (Ranch Romances, January 1956)

“Home Front” (Accused Detective Story, January 1956)

“Shango” (IF, February 1956)

“The Cybernetic Kid” (Fantastic Universe, February 1956)

“Find Father Ziertel” (Stag, April 1956)

“Dagger” (Hunted Detective Story, April 1956)

“Fury at Carbine Creek” (Ranch Romances, April 1956)

“The Siren and the Shill” (Accused Detective Story, May 1956)

“Razor in the Night” (Trapped Detective Story, June 1956)

“The Glass Eye” (Guilty Detective Story, July 1956)

“Pistol-Whipped” (Western Action, September 1956)

“My Brother on the Highway” (Infinity Science Fiction, October 1956)

“Bombay Blonde” (Hunted Detective Story, October 1956)

“Last Daiquiri” (Caper, November 1956)

“The Woman In The White Sweater” (Men’s Pictorial, December 1956)

“Bleed for Me” (Terror Detective Story, December 1956)

“The Razor and the Head” (Trapped Detective Story, December 1956)

1957

“Operation Zero” (American Agent, Spring 1957)

“Traitor’s Flight”(American Agent, Spring 1957) as Alan Henry

“Hero at Work” (Venture Science Fiction, January 1957)

“Horror in the Night” (Guilty Detective Story, January 1957)

“The Naked Gun” (Short Stories, January 1957)

“Alas, Napoleon” (Tales of the Frightened, Spring 1957)

“The Singular Occurence at Styles” (Tales of the Frightened, Spring 1957) as Alan Henry

“The Devil Spins a Sun-Dream” (Space Science Fiction, Spring 1957)

“Kept Woman” (Trapped Detective Story, April 1957)

“Kept Man” (Guilty Detective Story, May 1957)

“The Affair of the Second Dracula” (Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, December 1957)

1958

The Devil Has Four Faces (1958)

The Seventh Man (1958) as Jay Scotland

This’ll Slay You (1958) as Alan Payne

Murder He Says (1958) as Alan Payne

“Uncle Willie’s Strippers” (Murder!, July 1958)

“Kiss Your Brother Al Goodbye” (Murder!, September-October 1958)

“Miss Impossible” (Imagination, October 1958) as C. H. Thames

“Blizzard Brain” (Space Travel, July 1958) as John Darius Granger

“The Deadly Mission” (Space Travel, September 1958) as Alexander Blade

“Feed Me, Mr. Wodgett” (Monster Parade, September 1958)

“Nine Shadows at Doomsday” (Space Travel, November 1958) as S. M. Tenneshaw

 

“The Last Spoon” (Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine,November 1957)

1959

I, Barbarian (1959) (as Jay Scotland)

The Imposter (1959)

“The Crooked Three” (Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, February 1959)

“How Cool the Fuel” (Satellite Science Fiction, scheduled for June 1959, unpublished)

“Night of the Robots” (Science Fiction Stories, July 1959) as Allen Wilder

“The Eleven Diplomats” (The Saint Mystery Library, September 1959)

“The Nine Guilty Nannies” (The Saint Mystery Library, September 1959)

“The Honest Fakirs” (The Saint Mystery Library, October 1959)

“The Dead Dodos” (The Saint Mystery Library, October 1959)

1960

Johnny Havoc (1960)

“A Case of Charity” (Adam Bedside Reader 4, 1960)

“Doomsday” (The Saint Mystery Magazine, January 1960)

“Ten Lost Bombs” (The Saint Mystery Library, February 1960)

“The Seven New Saints” (The Saint Mystery Library, March 1960)

“The Red Telephone” (Amazing Stories, April 1960)

“To Hell with You” (Tightrope, April 1960)

“The Strange Paintings of Felix A. Orth” (Fear! May 1960)

“The Eight Wasted Wells” (Tightrope, May 1960)

“The One of Nails” (77 Sunset Strip, July 1960)

“Three Helpful Teachers” (The Saint Mystery Magazine, August 1960)

1961

Strike the Black Flag (1961) as Jay Scotland

Make Mine Mavis (1961) as William Ard

The Defiled Sister (1961)

“Political Machine” (Amazing Stories, March 1961)

“The Highest Form of Life” (Amazing Stories, August 1961)

“A Cabbage Named Sam” (Fantastic, October 1961)

“Cloak and Dagger” (The Saint Mystery Magazine UK, October 1961, February 1962 US)

1962

Johnny Havoc Meets Zelda (1962) (aka Havoc For Sale)

Sir Scoundrel (1962) (as Jay Scotland)

Veils of Salome (1962)

And So to Bed (1962) as William Ard

Give Me This Woman (1962) as William Ard

“The Man Who Wanted to Be in Movies” (Dark Mind, Dark Heart, 1962)

“Recidivism Preferred” (Amazing Stories, February 1962)

“The Protector” (Amazing Stories, May 1962)

“One Race Show” (Galaxy, August 1962)

“My Love, The Monster” (Web Terror Stories, August 1962)

1963

Arena (1963) (as Jay Scotland)

GI Girls (1963)

Traitor’s Legion (1963) as Jay Scotland

Johnny Havoc and the Doll Who Made ‘It” (1963) (aka Holiday For Havoc)

The Man From Cannae (1963)

“In the Days of King Arsgrat” (Fantastic, January 1963)

“Underfollow” (F&SF, May 1963)

“The Screams of the Wergs” (Fantastic, May 1963) as Jay Scotland

“Devils in the Walls” (Fantastic, May 1963)

“The Sellers of the Dream” (Galaxy, June 1963)

“Suspect” (Manhunt, August 1963)

“Witch of the Four Winds” (Fantastic, November December 1963)

1964

“Sex Shoot” (Adam Yearbook, 1964)

“When Idols Walked” (Fantastic, August September 1964)

1965

‘”The Girl in the Gem” (Fantastic, January 1965)

“The Pillars of Chambalor” (Fantastic, March 1965)

“No Vinism Like Chauvinsim” (Amazing Stories, April 1965)

“The Silk of Shaitan” (Fantastic, April 1965)

“Miranda” (Fantastic, May 1965)

” Unc Solves Flix Flap” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, June 1965)

“The Night Alexander Slept in the Carport” (Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, August 1965)

“Unc Probes Pickle Plot” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September 1965)

“Monsieur Crutch” (Intrigue Magazine, November 1965)

The next decade will see John move into bestsellerdom and win himself a place as one of America’s favorite storytellers.