J. F. Byrne United States

Born
17 September 1902 in United States
Died
20 December 1972 in United States
Age
70 years
Credited for

management

editing

Also known as

John Francis Byrne

Jack Byrne (pen name)

Zora Roark (pen name)

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Biography

Byrne wrote action and western stories for a range of pulp magazines. His earliest stories were published in 1927 in Fiction House magazines Lariat Story, Air Stories and Action Stories as Jack Byrne. In 1928 he was hired as editor of North-West Stories and edited a wide range of magazines for Fiction House—he was listed as editor in issues of Aces, Action Novels, Action Stories, Black Aces, Fight Stories, Frontier Stories, Lariat Story, Two Complete Detective Books, Two Western Books and Wings.

Throughout his career, he also wrote for other publishers. Argosy Magazine published his story "To Hell with the Devil" on 1 December 1934 and he wrote under his own name and the pen-name Zora Roark for pulp magazines. In 1936, Byrne left Fiction House and became General Editor at Argosy Magazine.

In 1940 Byrne returned to NYC to join Malcolm Reiss as co-publisher of Fiction House. He was managing editor for Fiction House comics from 1945 until 1954, when the company stopped publishing comics. In 1954 Jack Byrne and his family moved to Connecticut.

Byrne's sister Olive married William Moulton Marston, creator of Wonder Woman.

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Firehair Comics (HJ Edwards, 1950? series) #2 (September 1950)
Kidnap Caravan (Firehair)
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Jungle Comics (HJ Edwards, 1950? series) #1 (October 1950)
The Ark of the Mist-Maids (Kaänga)
Comic: Cover
Jungle Comics (HJ Edwards, 1950? series) #1 (October 1950)
The Ark of the Mist-Maids (Kaänga)
Comic: Comic story
Sheena Queen of the Jungle (HJ Edwards, 1950 series) #1 (October 1950)
Untitled (Simba)
Comic: Comic story
Firehair Comics (HJ Edwards, 1950? series) #5 (December 1950)
Untitled (Firehair)
Comic: Cover
Planet Comics (HJ Edwards, 1951 series) #1 (January 1951)
Vassals of Volta
Comic: Cover
Firehair Comics (HJ Edwards, 1950? series) #6 (January 1951)
Untitled (Firehair)
Comic: Cover
Planet Comics (HJ Edwards, 1951 series) #1 (January 1951)
Untitled [Vassals of Volta] (The Lost World)
Comic: Comic story
Planet Comics (HJ Edwards, 1951 series) #1 (January 1951)
Untitled [The Mystery Planets] (Life on Other Worlds)
Comic: Comic story
Planet Comics (HJ Edwards, 1951 series) #1 (January 1951)
Untitled (Life on Other Worlds)
Comic: Comic story

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Created

  • 19 Jul 2019

Last updated

  • 19 Jul 2019