Radio Boys was the title of three series of juvenile fiction book

Book

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s published by rival companies in the United States

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 in the 1920s:

• Grosset & Dunlap
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   - authored by "Allen Chapman", a Stratemeyer Syndicate
  Stratemeyer Syndicate
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   pseudonym
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   - 13 titles. The best known, and biggest seller of the three series.

• A. L. Burt Company - authored by Gerald Breckenridge - 10 titles. Unlike the other books in the series, which were published under pseudonyms, there appears to have really been a Gerald Breckenridge, a former journalist
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  . Some of his papers were donated to Auburn University
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  . According to radio listings that were published in the New York Times and other newspapers, Breckenridge was a guest on radio station Newark's WJZ three times during October 1922, reading selections from his latest "Radio Boys" book

• M. A. Donohue & Co. - various authors - 6 titles

There was also a related Radio Girls series, another Stratemeyer Syndicate product, published by Cupples & Leon

Cupples & Leon

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 and authored by "Margaret Penrose

Margaret Penrose

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All of these series were launched seemingly simultaneously in 1922 and the earliest books in each series were by far the biggest sellers, often incorporating details on how to build a crystal set (a simple radio receiver). Later installments tended toward routine action adventure.

External links

• Details of the Stratemeyer Syndicate's Radio Boys series - Also spotlights some similarly named 1920s series pertaining to radio, i.e. The Radio-Phone Boys
• 13 titles available at Project Gutenberg