In the next couple of weeks, over on The Adventure Gamer, I will be playing Seastalker. I mentioned this earlier in my review of a Hardy Boys mystery, and I am presently working my way through stories featuring Tom Swift, Jr. and Nancy Drew. All of these young-adult novels were written by Jim Lawrence, but you would never know it from their covers. Jim was a dedicated ghostwriter, creating fiction that he would never get credit for. Nonetheless, I have become quite interested in his history and have started to pull together a bibliography of his books based on various sources that I found online. This is most likely not a complete list. This is made more complicated by the fact that there are at least three authors named Jim (or James) Lawrence, including one artist who worked in comics. Trying to separate out which Mr. Lawrence wrote what has been quite a challenge!

That’s where you come in. Do you know of any additional works by Jim Lawrence? Do you have details of specific radio play scripts that he wrote? If so, please drop me a note below. For everyone else, here is the list that I have gathered so far:

Books by Jim Lawrence (aka James Duncan Lawrence)

Comics by Jim Lawrence

Note that in some of these cases, Mr. Lawrence may have contributed only a fraction of the scripts.

• James Bond newspaper comics (1966-1984)
• Captain Easy newspaper comics (1969-??)
• Friday Foster newspaper comics (1970-1974)
• Buck Rogers newspaper comics (1979-1981)
• Joe Palooka newspaper comics (??)

Radio Play Scripts by Jim Lawrence

• Green Hornet (1949-1950) (two episodes)
• Sargent Preston of the Yukon / Challenge of the Yukon (1949-1950)
• Sky King (??)