Ron Goulart

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Ron Goulart

Ronald "Ron" Joseph Goulart (born January 13, 1933 in Berkeley , California ) is an American writer who has published over 180 books, including more than 50 science fiction novels. He also publishes under the pseudonyms Carston Bingham, Josephine Kains, Kenneth Robeson, Frank S. Shawn, Joseph Silva and Con Steffanson.

Life

Goulart's father, Joseph Silveira Goulart, was a factory worker and Portuguese born in the Azores. His mother's family, Josephine, nee Macri, came from Calabria. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1955 . He then worked as a copywriter for Guild, Bascom and Bonfigci in San Francisco (1955–1960), as a writer for Alan Alch Inc. in Hollywood (1960–1963) and as a copywriter for Hoefer, Dietrich and Brown in San Francisco (1966–1968 ). Since then he has been a freelance writer.

His first publication, Letters to the Editor , was an April 1952 Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction parody that had previously been published in the University of California Pelican's humorous student magazine . In the same year he wrote his first short story ( Conroy's Public ) and then took a six-year hiatus during which he finished his studies and wrote advertising texts for peanut butter. Just in time for the end of the science fiction boom, he began to write SF again in 1958. He became one of the most prolific writers of not only SF but genre literature of all kinds, writing crime fiction , mystery , horror, and novel versions and tie-ins to comics and television series. In addition, Goulart wrote screenplays, comic scripts and a number of non-fiction books, including lexicons and reference works on comics and detective stories and the biographies of comic artists.

His first novel The Sword Swallower (1968) and many more of his SF stories are set in the fictional world of the Barnum System , an extensive planetary system named after the circus pioneer PT Barnum , which is considered to be a pulp fiction transformed into the world of space opera. California can be described. Goulart says:

"I haven't kept track of the system too well, nor do I have a chart or plan of the whole thing drawn up. I'm not even sure how many planets there are in the system, since I make up a new one when I get tired of the old ones. "

“I didn't follow the system very closely, nor did I make a map or plan of it. I'm not even sure how many planets it has, as I'll make up a new one when I've had enough of the old ones. "

Part of these Barnum System stories has Ben Jolson, a member of the Chameleon Corps , a group of shapeshifter agents who successfully use his metamorphic talents in the CC's investigations , as the protagonist .

Goulart's works are characterized by parody, satire and ironic quoting of set pieces, often from different genres. In his style and characters, the pronounced inclination to comics and comic-like was noted, which is also documented in his series of novels on comic characters ( Vampirella , The Incredible Hulk , Captain America ). He has even been described as a “crazy comic artist”, with Goulart being a well-established scenarioist in the field of comics (e.g. Star Hawks with the illustrator Gil Kane ) and author of secondary literature. In this context, his concise, dialog-oriented style was also noted, the short paragraphs of which would often find space in a speech bubble .

Another feature is the frequent mixture of different genres, especially SF and detective history, whereby Goulart's detectives are not the realistically drawn, often broken characters of contemporary crime fiction, but rather the boiled, cynical detectives of Pulp magazines . A book about these classic crime heroes ( The Dime Detectives , 1988) was nominated for a Mystery Writers of America Award. But the mixture of (slapstick) comedy and detective story was also realized by Goulart, namely in his series of novels beginning with Groucho Marx, Master Detective (1998), in which the cases of Groucho Marx are described from the perspective of a Watson- like figure behind the scenes of his existence as a comedian, known to the general public, resolves: “Few people know that Groucho used to work successfully as an amateur detective. But believe me, by the late 1930s, Groucho was a serious competitor for West Coast detectives like Philip Marlowe , Sam Spade and Dan Turner . "

In 2002 he received the I-CON Award for his contributions to science fiction and fantasy . The literature occasionally says that in 1970 he received an award from the Mystery Writers of America for After Things Fell Apart , with both the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Raven Award , but there is no evidence of this. Are occupied Edgar nominations 1971 After Things Fell Apart and 1989 for The Dime Detectives . From 1969 to 1970 Goulart was Vice President of Science Fiction Writers of America .

In 1964 Goulart married Frances Sheridan, with whom he has two sons. Frances Sheridan Goulart is the author of numerous non-fiction books, mainly advice on diet cuisine, nutrition and lifestyle. Goulart lives in Ridgefield , Connecticut .

bibliography

Series

The following series are arranged chronologically in ascending order according to the year of publication of the first volume. If the first volume was published in the same way, it was sorted alphabetically by title. The series belonging to the Barnum System world were sorted one after the other. Unless otherwise noted, the individual titles are novels.

Max Kearny (short stories)
  • Time Was (1961)
  • Please Stand By (1962)
  • Uncle Arly (1962)
  • McNamara's Fish (1963)
    • English: McNamaras Fisch. In: Charlotte Winheller (Ed.): The Esper intervene. Heyne # 260, 1963.
  • Kearny's Last Case (1965)
  • Breakaway House (1966)
    • German: The Haunted House. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): Murder in the space station. Heyne SF&F # 3122, 1968.
  • Fill in the Blank (1967)
  • The Ghost Patrol (1968)
  • The Return of Max Kearny (1981)
    • English: Max Kearney returns. In: Ronald M. Hahn: The happy people of methane. Heyne SF&F # 3946, 1983, ISBN 3-453-30874-3 .
  • Hello from Hollywood (1983)
Plumrose (short stories)
  • Plumrose (1963)
  • The Recurrent Suitor (1963)
  • Vanity, Thy Name Is (1963)
Barnum system
  • Society for the Prevention (1964, short story)
  • The Fire Eater (1970)
  • Clockwork's Pirates (1971)
  • Shaggy Planet (1973)
    • English: Die Androiden-Hell. Translated by Michael Kubiak. Bastei Lübbe # 21080, 1976, ISBN 3-404-00481-7 .
  • Spacehawk, Inc. (1974)
  • The Wicked Cyborg (1978)
  • Dr. Scofflaw (1979)
Barnum System: Ben Jolsen / Chameleon Corps
  • 1 The Sword Swallower (1968)
    • German: The sword swallower. In: The Chameleon Corps. 1982.
  • 2 The Chameleon Corps & Other Shape Changers (1972, collection)
  • 3 Flux (1974)
    • German: Fluxus. In: The Chameleon Corps. 1982.
  • Chameleon (1964, short story)
    • German: chameleon. In: The Chameleon Corps. 1982.
  • Rake (1965, short story)
    • German: Der Wüstling. In: The Chameleon Corps. 1982.
  • The Sword Swallower (1967, short story)
    • German: Gruppe A. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Hrsg.): At the end of all dreams. Heyne SF&F # 3204, 1970. Also called: The Rubber Man. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 39. Ullstein 2000 # 73 (3067), 1974, ISBN 3-548-13067-4 .
  • Copstate (1969, short story)
    • German: Police State. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): The last war. Heyne SF&F # 3165, 1969. Also in: The Chameleon Corps. 1982.
  • Hobo Jungle (1970, short story)
    • German: The dollar search. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): Storms on Siros. Heyne SF&F # 3237, 1971.
  • Sunflower (1970, short story)
  • Masterpiece (1972, short story)
    • German: A masterpiece. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): Traumpatrouille. Heyne SF&F # 3385, 1974, ISBN 3-453-30262-1 . Also in: The Chameleon Corps , 1982.
  • Canned Heat (1972, short story)
    • German: The heat converter. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): One day in Suburbia. Heyne SF&F # 3353, 1973.
  • At the Starvation Ball (1976, short story)
  • German: The Chameleon Corps Tales. Ed. U. with an afterword by Hans Joachim Alpers. Moewig # 3590, 1982, ISBN 3-8118-3590-4 .
  • Ex-Chameleon (1986, short story)
Barnum System: Jack Summer
  • 1 Death Cell (1971)
  • 2 Plunder (1972)
    • German: Our man on Noventa. Translated by Hans Wolf Sommer. Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch # 23037, 1984, ISBN 3-404-23037-X .
  • 3 A Whiff of Madness (1976)
  • 4 Galaxy Jane (1986)
Barnum System: Star Hawks
  • 1 Empire 99 (1980)
  • 2 The Cyborg King (1981)
  • Star Hawks (1979, comic version)
  • Star Hawks II (1981, comic version)
Barnum System: Ben Jolsen / Chameleon Corps / Exchameleon
  • 1 Daredevils, Ltd. (1987)
  • 2 Star Pirate's Brain (1987)
  • 3 Everybody Comes to Cosmo’s (1988)
Jose Silvera (short stories)
  • Experiment in Autobiography (1966)
    • German: Unpaid claims. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): World of Illusions. Heyne SF&F # 3110, 1967.
  • Penny Dreadful (1969)
    • German: On our own behalf. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): Planet of the suicide. Heyne SF&F # 3186, 1970.
  • Confessions (1970)
    • German: Among writers. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): A Pegasus for Mrs. Bullitt. Heyne SF&F # 3369, 1973, ISBN 3-453-30246-X . (Also called: The Killer Pill. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 49. Ullstein 2000 # 93 (3148), 1975, ISBN 3-548-03148-4 )
  • The Way Things Work (1971)
    • German: Friend of Robots. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): When the wind died. Heyne SF&F # 3288, 1972.
  • Passage to Murdstone (1971)
    • English: Flight to Murdstone. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): Flight to Murdstone. Heyne SF&F # 3337, 1973.
  • Varieties of Religious Experience (1973)
  • Lunatic at Large (1977)
  • Assassins (1977)
  • Blockbuster (1982)
Fragmented America
  • After Things Fell Apart (1970)
    • German: When everything fell apart . Translated by Jürgen Saupe. Goldmann Weltraum Taschenbuch # 180, 1973, ISBN 3-442-23180-9 .
  • Gadget Man (1971)
  • Hawkshaw (1972)
  • Crackpot (1977)
  • Brinkman (1981)
John Easy (detective novels)
  • 1 If Dying Was All (1971)
    • German: lonely only in the last bed. Translated by Walter Spiegl. Ullstein books # 1567, 1973, ISBN 3-548-01567-0 .
  • 2 Too Sweet to Die (1972)
    • German: Too sweet for the coffin. Translated by Jutta Wannenmacher. Ullstein books # 1580, 1974, ISBN 3-548-01580-8 .
  • 3 The Same Lie Twice (1973)
    • German: Two lies for every kiss. Translated by Jutta Wannenmacher. Ullstein books # 1592, 1974, ISBN 3-548-01592-1 .
  • 4 One Grave Too Many (1974)
    • German: Something is missing from the skeleton. Translated by Jutta Wannenmacher. Ullstein books # 1641, 1974, ISBN 3-548-01641-3 .
Cleopatra Jones
Jack Conger / Wild Talents
  • 1 A Talent for the Invisible (1973)
    • German: The invisible. Translated by Leni Sobez. Bastei Lübbe # 21065, 1975, ISBN 3-404-00229-6 .
  • 2 The Panchronicon Plot (1977)
    • English: The Panchronicon Conspiracy. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31156, 1987, ISBN 3-548-31156-3 .
  • 3 Hello, Lemuria, Hello (1979)
    • German: Hello, Lemuria, hello! Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31167, 1988, ISBN 3-548-31167-9 .
Kwai Chang Caine Master of Kung (as Howard Lee)

Tie-ins to the TV series Kung Fu .

  • 2 Chains (1973)
  • 3 Superstition (1973)
The Story of the Phantom (as Frank S. Shawn)

Tie-ins to the comic series about the Phantom by Lee Falk .

  • The Veiled Lady (1973)
  • The Golden Circle (1973)
  • The Mystery of the Sea Horse (1973)
  • The Hydra Monster (1973)
  • The Goggle-Eyed Pirates (1974)
  • The Swamp Rats (1974)
The Avenger (as Kenneth Robeson)

Kenneth Robeson was Street & Smith's publishing pseudonym under which the Avenger stories appeared in Pulp magazine of the same name. 1972–1975 these stories were reissued in the Warner Paperback Library and Goulart commissioned to write 12 sequels.

  • 25 The Man from Atlantis (1974)
  • 26 Red Moon (1974)
  • 27 The Purple Zombie (1974)
  • 28 Dr. Time (1974)
  • 29 The Nightwitch Devil (1974)
  • 30 Black Chariots (1974)
  • 31 The Cartoon Crimes (1974)
  • 32 The Death Machine (1975)
  • 33 The Blood Countess (1975)
  • 34 The Glass Man (1975)
  • 35 The Iron Skull (1975)
  • 36 Demon Island (1975)
Flash Gordon (as Con Steffanson)
  • 1 The Lion Men of Mongo (1974)
  • 2 The Plague of Sound (1974)
  • 3 The Space Circus (1974)
Vampirella
  • 1 Bloodstalk (1975)
  • 2 On Alien Wings (1975)
  • 3 Deadwalk (1976)
  • 4 Blood Wedding (1976)
  • 5 Deathgame (1976)
  • 6 Snakegod (1976)
Laverne and Shirley (as Con Steffanson)

Tie-ins to the sitcom Laverne and Shirley

  • Teamwork (1976)
  • Easy Money (1976)
  • Gold Rush (1976)
Quest of the Gypsy
  • 1 Quest of the Gypsy (1976)
  • 2 Eye of the Vulture (1977)
  • Quest of the Gypsy (1975, short story)
DC Comics Metaverse
  • Challengers of the Unknown (1977)
The Incredible Hulk
  • Stalker from the Stars (1978, with Len Wein and Marv Wolfman)
Odd Jobs, Inc.
  • 1 Calling Dr. Patchwork (1978)
    • German: Dr. Patchwork strikes. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31161, 1988, ISBN 3-548-31161-X .
  • 2 Hail Hibbler (1980)
    • German: Heil Hibbler! Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31170, 1988, ISBN 3-548-31170-9 .
  • 3 Big Bang (1982)
  • 4 Brainz, Inc. (1985)
Oldies Ltd (short stories)
  • Lectric Jack (1978)
  • Presenting Trilby Swain (1981)
    • English: Trilby Swain for everyone. In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): Cyrion in bronze. Heyne SF&F # 3965, 1983, 3-453-30897-2.
Zebra Mystery Puzzler (as Josephine Kains)

Mystery series

  • The Devil Mask Mystery (1978)
  • The Curse of the Golden Skull (1978)
  • The Green Lama Mystery (1979)
  • The Whispering Cat Mystery (1979)
  • The Witch's Tower Mystery (1979)
  • The Laughing Dragon Mystery (1980)
Captain America
  • Holocaust for Hire (1979, as Joseph Silva)
Skyrocket Steele
  • Skyrocket Steele (1980)
  • Skyrocket Steele Conquers the Universe (1985, short story)
Agent Brad Spear (as Chad Calhoun)
  • The Hidden Princess (1982)
  • The Mountain Queen (1982)
  • The Lady Rustler (1982)
Faro Blake (as Zeke Masters)
  • High Card (1982)
  • Loaded Dice (1982)
  • Texas Two-Step (1983)
  • Cashing In (1983)
Battlestar Galactica 1 (with Glen A. Larson)
  • 8 Greetings from Earth (1983)
  • 9 Experiment in Terra (1984)
  • 10 The Long Patrol (1984)
Harry Challenge
  • 1 The Prisoner of Blackwood Castle (1984)
  • 2 The Curse of the Obelisk (1987)
  • The Secret of the City of Gold (2012, short story)
  • The Problem of the Elusive Cracksman (2012, short story)
  • Harry Challenge: Victorian Supernatural Sleuth (2015, collective edition of 1 and 2)
Hardy Boys Casefiles (as Franklin W. Dixon)
  • Disaster for Hire (1989)
  • The Deadliest Dare (1989)
  • Castle Fear (1990)
TekWar (as William Shatner)
  • 1 TekWar (1989)
  • 2 TekLords (1991)
  • 3 TekLab (1992)
  • 4 Tek Vengeance (1993)
  • 5 Tek Secret (1993)
Heather Moon (short stories)
  • Why I Never Went Steady with Heather Moon (1997)
    • English: Why I never went stuck with Heather Moon. In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): The Roosevelt Depeschen. Heyne SF&F # 6347, 2000, ISBN 3-453-16200-5 .
  • How Heather Moon Kept My Life from Getting Completely Fouled Up Again (1999)
  • Concerning My Third Encounter with Heather Moon (2001)
Groucho Marx
  • 1 Groucho Marx, Master Detective (1998)
    • German: Groucho Marx, master detective. Translated by Joachim Körber. Phantasia-Paperback / Crime # 4004, 2010, ISBN 978-3-937897-40-0 .
  • 2 Groucho Marx, Private Eye (1999)
  • 3 Elementary, My Dear Groucho (1999)
  • 4 Groucho Marx and the Broadway Murders (2001)
  • 5 Groucho Marx, Secret Agent (2002)
  • 6 Groucho Marx, King of the Jungle (2005)
Maggie & Ben (short stories)
  • I Married a Robot (1999)
  • My Favorite Robot (2001)
  • The Robot Who Came to Dinner (2002)
  • The Robot Who Knew Too Much (2003)

Single novels

  • Wildsmith (1972)
  • The Tin Angel (1973)
  • The Tremendous Adventures of Bernie Wine (1975)
  • The Hellhound Project (1975)
  • When the Waker Sleeps (1975)
  • The Enormous Hourglass (1976)
  • The Emperor of the Last Days (1977)
  • Nemo (1977)
    • German: Nemo. Translated by Klaus Dieter. Bastei Lübbe # 21122, 1979, ISBN 3-404-01436-7 .
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977, as Joseph Silva)
  • Capricorn One (1978, novel version of the film Enterprise Capricorn )
    • German: Company Capricorn. Translated by Juscha Zoeller. Heyne SF&F # 3721, 1979, ISBN 3-453-30624-4 .
  • Agent of Love (1979, as Jillian Kearny)
  • Cowboy Heaven (1979)
  • Love's Claimant (1981, as Jillian Kearny)
  • The Robot In the Closet (1981)
  • Upside Downside (1982)
  • Hellquad (1984)
  • Prize Meets Murder (1984, as RT Edwards, with Otto Penzler)
  • A Graveyard of My Own (1985)
  • Suicide, Inc. (1985)
  • Triple "O" Seven (1985, as Ian R. Jamieson)
  • The Wisemann Originals (1989)
  • Even the Butler was Poor (1990)
  • The Tijuana Bible (1990)
  • Now He Thinks He's Dead (1992)
  • Murder on the Aisle (1996)
  • Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Complete Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 2: 1930-1932 (2009)

Collections

  • Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (1971)
  • Ghost Breaker (1971)
  • What's Become of Screwloose? And Other Inquiries (1971)
  • Odd Job # 101 And Other Future Crimes and Intrigues (1975)
  • Bolts and More Troubles with Machines (1975)
  • Skyrocket Steele Conquers the Universe and Other Media Tales (1990)
  • Adam and Eve on a Raft: Mystery Stories (2001)

Short stories

  • Letters to the Editor (1952)
  • Conroy's Public (1952)
  • ... And Curiouser (1958)
  • The Katy Dialogues (1958)
    • German: The Katy Dialogues. In: machine damage. 1972.
  • Shandy (1958)
  • Dream Girl (1958)
  • Parlor Game (1959)
  • Ralph Wollstonecraft Hedge: A Memoir (1959)
  • Required Course (1959)
  • Bottle It Up (1959)
  • Clothes Make the Man (1959)
  • Ignatz (1960)
  • Ella Speed (1960)
  • Subject to Change (1960)
  • Princess # 22 (1962)
    • German: Princess No. 22. In: Machine damage. 1972.
  • Junior Partner (1962)
  • Nor Iron Bars a Cage (1962)
  • Joker for Hire (1963, also as Anything for Laughs )
    • German: fool for rent. In: machine damage. 1972.
  • The Yes-Men of Venus (1963)
  • Nobody Starves (1964)
    • German: error of the machines. In: Charlotte Winheller (ed.): Error of the machines. Heyne # 299, 1964. Also as: Nobody starved. In: machine damage. 1972.
  • Into the Shop (1964)
    • German: Policar A10 in action. In: Charlotte Winheller (Ed.): Die Kristallwelt Heyne # 3027, 1964.
  • Badinage (1965)
    • German: credit. William F. Nolan (Ed.): The Others Among Us. Heyne # 3120, 1968.
  • Reporter at Large (1965)
  • The Hand of Dr. Insidious (1965)
  • Winterness (1965)
  • All for Love (1965, also as By Way of Mars )
    • German: Out of love. In: machine damage. 1972.
  • Calling Dr. Clockwork (1965)
    • German: At Dr. Clockwork. In: machine damage. 1972. Also as: The patient. In: Science-Fiction-Stories 60. Ullstein 2000 # 115 (3250), 1976, ISBN 3-548-03250-8 .
  • Terminal (1965)
    • German: Endstation. In: machine damage. 1972.
  • Nesbit (1965)
  • To the Rescue (1966)
    • German: Passive Resistance. In: The Moles of Manhattan. Heyne SF&F # 3073, 1966. Also called: rescue. In: machine damage. 1972.
  • The Tin Ear (1966)
  • Two Days Running and Then Skip a Day (1967)
  • The Housebreakers (1967)
  • Muscadine (1968)
    • English: Muscadine, the android. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): In the face of the sun. Heyne SF&F # 3145, 1969. Also called: Muscadine. In: machine damage. 1972.
  • The Trouble with Machines (1968)
    • German: machine damage. In: machine damage. 1972.
  • Gadget Man (1968)
  • Lofthouse (1969, also called A Man's Home Is His Castle )
    • German: Lofthouse. In: machine damage. 1972.
  • Broke Down Engine (1969), also called Broke and Hungry, No Place to Go
    • German: Sorrow with machines. In: machine damage. 1972.
  • Keeping an Eye on Janey (1970)
  • The Whole Round World (1970)
  • The Strawhouse Pavillion (1970)
  • Disposal (1970)
    • German: Müllschlucker. In: machine damage. 1972.
  • Prez (1970)
    • German: Prez. In: Walter Spiegl (Ed.): Science-Fiction-Stories 78. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31006, 1979, ISBN 3-548-31006-0 .
  • Swap (1970)
  • What's Become of Screwloose? (1970)
    • German: What happened to screw loosener? In: Ernst Fuchs, Hans Joachim Alpers (ed.): New science fiction stories. Tosa, 1982, ISBN 3-85001-097-X . Also as: What happened to screw loosener? In: Isaac Asimov, Martin Greenberg, Joseph Olander (eds.): Question mark future. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6736), 1984, ISBN 3-8118-6736-9 .
  • Hardcastle (1971)
  • Help Stamp Out Chesney (1971)
  • Monte Cristo Complex (1971)
  • The Romance of Dr. Tanner (1971)
  • Change Over (1972)
  • Looking Into It (1972)
  • The Cybernetic Tabernacle Job (1972)
  • Gigolo (1972)
  • The Innocence of Father Bangs (1972)
  • Not That Shaggy ... (1972)
  • Whistler (1973)
    • German: Whistler. In: Michael Kubiak (Ed.): Höhenflug. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller # 22044, 1982, ISBN 3-404-22044-7 .
  • Free at Last (1973)
  • Down and Out (1973)
    • German: advance. In: Wulf H. Bergner (Ed.): The fourth sense of time. Heyne SF&F # 3402, 1974, ISBN 3-453-30297-4 .
  • Kilbride (1973)
  • Dingbat (1973)
  • Regarding Patient 724 (1973)
  • The Hellhound Project (1973)
    • German: The pyramid of power. Goldmann-Science-fiction # 23280, 1978, ISBN 3-442-23280-5 .
  • Stungun Slim (1974)
  • Utility Bolts (1975)
  • Odd Job # 101 (1975)
  • Stockyard Blues (1975)
  • Falling Apart (1975)
  • Shinbet Investigates (1977)
  • Amnesty (1977)
    • German: Amnestie. In: Josh Pachter (ed.): Top Science Fiction: Third Part. Heyne SF&F # 4654, 1990, ISBN 3-453-03918-1 .
  • How Come My Dog Don't Bark? (1978)
  • Invisible Stripes (1978)
    • German: The man who wasn't allowed to watch TV. In: Hans Joachim Alpers (Ed.): Kopernikus 2. Moewig Science Fiction # 3514, 1981, ISBN 3-8118-3514-9 .
  • Pulling The Plug (1978)
  • Garbage (1979)
  • The President's Brain Is Missing (1980)
  • Steele Wyoming (1980)
  • Batteries Not Included (1981)
  • Groucho (1981)
  • Papa Gumbo (1981)
  • Mercy (1981)
    • German: Mercy. In: Hans Joachim Alpers (Ed.): Analog 4. Moewig Science Fiction # 3583, 1982, ISBN 3-8118-3583-1 .
  • The Foxworth Legatees (1981)
  • Ask Penny Jupiter (1981)
  • Crusoe in New York (1982)
  • Brain Food (1983)
  • Moppet (1983)
  • Street Magic (1984)
  • Me and the Devil (1984), also called Printer's Devil
  • That Wonderful Summer (1985)
  • Glory (1986)
    • German: Glory. In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): People's Republic of Disneyland. Heyne SF&F # 4525, 1988, ISBN 3-453-02788-4 . Also in: Edward L. Ferman, Anne Jordan (Ed.): The best horror stories. Knaur Horror # 1835, 1989, ISBN 3-426-01835-7 .
  • Business As Usual (1987)
  • The Night I Saw Bix Beiderbecke Playing on the Corner of Fifth Avenue and 53rd (1988)
  • Visitation (1988)
  • Satin (1988)
  • House of Secrets (1988)
    • German: The House of Secrets. In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): In Video Veritas. Heyne SF&F # 4621, 1989, ISBN 3-453-03492-9 .
  • Here Comes Bunky (1988)
  • The Werewolf of Hollywood (1989)
  • The Consequences of Buying Maria Montez for Dad (1989)
  • Hershey's Kisses (1992)
    • German: Ferreros kisses. In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): Invasoren. Heyne SF&F # 5113, 1994, ISBN 3-453-07279-0 .
  • Fear of Success (1993)
  • Mom's Cooking (1993)
  • New Hope for Denture Wearers (1993)
  • A Cure for Baldness (1996)
    • German: Bald man makes a career. In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): The triple crash of Jeremy Baker. Heyne SF&F # 5649, 1997, ISBN 3-453-11921-5 .
  • Downsized (1997)
  • Satan's Home Page (1998)
  • My Pal Clunky (1998)
  • The Curse of the Demon (1998)
  • Tinker's Last Case (1999)
  • Black Magic for Dummies (2000)
  • The Phantom Highwayman (2001)
  • The Wake of the Crimson Hawk (2002)
  • Odd Job # 213 (2002)
  • The Woman in the Mist (2002)
  • The Incredible Steam Man (2003)
  • Trouble in Cthulhu Canyon (2004)
  • The Secret of the Scarab (2005)
  • Cannibal Farm (2005)
  • Garbo Quits (2007)
  • The Problem of the Missing Werewolf (2007)
  • The Devil Bats Will Be a Little Late This Year (2007)
  • Conversations With My Knees (2008)
  • Memoirs of the Witch Queen (2008)
  • I Waltzed with a Zombie (2009)
  • I Was a Middle-Age Werewolf (2010)
  • The Bride of the Vampire (2014)
  • Hark, the Wicked Witches Sing (2014)
  • The Adventure of the Clockwork Men (2015)
  • The Amazing Transformation of the White House Dog (2017)

Non-fiction

  • The Assault on Childhood (1970)
  • Cheap Thrills: An Informal History of the Pulp Magazines (1972, 2006)
  • An American Family (1973)
  • The Adventurous Decade: Comic Strips in the Thirties (1975)
  • Focus on Jack Cole (1986)
  • The Great Comic Book Artists (2 vols., 1986 and 1989)
  • Ron Goulart's Great History of Comic Books (1986)
  • The Dime Detectives: A Comprehensive History of the Detective Fiction Pulps (1988)
  • Comic Book Culture: An Illustrated History (2000)
  • Comic Book Encyclopedia (2004)

Editors / anthologies

  • The Hardboiled Dicks: An Anthology and Study of Pulp Detective Fiction (1967)
  • Lineup Tough Guys (1966)
  • The Great British Detective (1982)
  • The Encyclopedia of American Comics (1990)

Scripts

Welcome to Paradox (TV series)
  • Into the Shop (1998)
Monsters (TV series)
  • Werewolf of Hollywood (1991)
Tales from the Darkside (TV series)
  • Printer's Devil (1986) ... (story)
ThunderCats (TV series)
  • Trouble with Time (1985)
  • The Terror of Hammerhand (1985)

Goulart also worked as a ghostwriter for William Shatner, co-creator of the television series Tek War - Warriors of the Future and the film TekWar: Battle for the Lost Past .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "I had a lapse of six years during which I completed college, and wrote commercials for Skippy Peanut Butter After the big sci-fi boom ended, I returned to the field in 1958." Robert Reginald: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Detroit 1979, p. 918.
  2. ^ Robert Reginald: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Detroit 1979, p. 919.
  3. ^ "At heart, Ron Goulart is a frustrated cartoonist." J. Randolph Cox: Goulart, Ron (ald Joseph). In: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. Chicago 1991, p. 333.
  4. ↑ See Goulart's entries in the Grand Comics Database (GCD) (accessed March 4, 2018).
  5. ↑ "Very few people were ever aware that Groucho carried on a successful sideline as an amateur detective. But from the late 1930s, trust me, Groucho was giving such West Coast sleuths as Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Dan Turner some stiff competition. ” Groucho Marx, Master Detective , chap. 1.
  6. ↑ See the entries in the Edgars database .
personal data
SURNAME Goulart, Ron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goulart, Ronald Joseph (full name); Calhoun, Chad (pen name); Edwards, RT (pen name); Jamieson, Ian R. (pen name); Cains, Josephine (pseudonym); Kearny, Jillian (pen name); Lee, Howard (pen name); Masters, Zeke (pseudonym); Robeson, Kenneth (pseudonym); Shawn, Frank S. (pseudonym); Silva, Joseph (pseudonym); Steffanson, Con (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Berkeley , California