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John K. Butler. Writer: Headline Hunters. One of the most prolific writers of B-pictures, California native John K. Butler also pulled double duty as a pulp fiction writer.
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Oct 18, 2022 · Author JOHN K. BUTLER is best-known, at least in our little neck of the woods, for the numerous stories he pounded out for such pulps as Black Mask, Detective Fiction Weekly, Double Detective and especially Dime Detective. A native Californian, Butler was born in Auburn, up near San Francisco.
What traditions does John K. Butler's "The Saint in Silver" (1941) come out of? And why is this story so satisfying? To work on the second question first, Butler has a great skill for description.
Oct 1, 1998 · John K. Butler. 3.60. 5 ratings2 reviews. In the 1930s and '40s, he wrote about the otherworldly landscape of Southern California with a tough elegance themes bordered on poetry, driving his tarnished but noble knight through a neon-lit neverland.
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Dec 21, 2023 · FLINT, Michigan — John K. Butler has been elected to the board of trustees of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, effective Jan. 1, 2024. A great-grandson of the institution’s founder, C.S. Mott, Butler will be the fifth family member currently serving on the board, which totals 14 active members and three trustees emeriti.
Oct 23, 2016 · Created by John K. Butler, this fast-paced, Los Angeles-based hard-boiled series was published between 1940 and 1942 in the pages of Dime Detective, the prestigious crime pulp second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre.
Dec 1, 2020 · Created by John K. Butler (1908-64) Although he wasn’t really a private eye, STEVE MIDNIGHT sure acted like one in the pages of Dime Detective in the 1940s. Steven Middleton Knight earned his nickname from the moneyed days of his youth when he had a rep as a “midnight playboy on a nation-wide scale.”
