Robert Leslie Bellem was a prolific American pulp magazine writer, best known for his creation of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. He was born in either 1894 or 1902, and died in 1968. Before becoming a writer he worked in Los Angeles as a newspaper reporter, radio announcer and film extra. After the demise of the pulps, Bellem switched to writing for television, including a number of scripts for The Lone Ranger, Adventures of Superman (1950s version), the original Perry Mason show, 77 Sunset Strip, and other shows.
BADGERING BICKFORD
PAULETTE POSES
GRAPPLING TRILBY
The Groan-and-Grunt Industry Hits a New High as Dode Mullane Gets a Stranglehold on Hamburgers!
KILL THAT HEADLINE
As a newspaperman, he couldn’t decently or ethically do anything about it. But as a man in love with the girl reporter, he had to make his move when she was threatened
WAR PLANS DIVIDED
It Was a Desperate Game of "Button, Button, Who's Got the Button with Death Death as the Prize!
BLOOD FOR THE VAMPIRE DEAD
Was this then the horrible price Tim Croft must pay for his disbelief in devil-magic philtres?— forfeiture of his own lovely fiancee’s life-blood to the undead corpse of Haunted Hollow!
THE COCK CROWS MURDER
Sheriff Vonner Puts Spurs to Law Enforcement When Death Strikes Hard in a Bloody Cock Pit
ENOUGH GLORY
BULLET FROM NOWHERE
The cameras are set, the scene has already been rehearsed; “Shoot!” the director says. . . . What happens is stark tragedy—not of the movie, play-acting variety, but like a chapter out of the deeper drama of life itself.
COOKED!
An ounce of murder-prevention is worth a pound of chasing a killer. So Dan tries to help the girl—only to find that a very fast one is being pulled on him.