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Otis Adelbert Kline

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892: 188:(1965). Among the evidence cited by Lupoff discounting the feud: (1) no comment from either writer acknowledging the feud is documented, and (2) family members of the two authors have no recollection of ever hearing them mention it. In response to Lupoff's investigations, Moskowitz identified his original source as Wollheim's article, while Wollheim stated, when questioned on the source of his own information: "I made it up!" 555: 356: 935: 159:
tales, have also been cited as evidence of the conflict. While the two authors did write the works in question, the theory that they did so in contention with each other is supported only circumstantially, by the resemblance and publication dates of the works themselves. The feud theory was
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from its inception. He contributed numerous stories to the magazine and edited a single issue — that for May–July 1924 (which also contained his short story "The Malignant Entity").
155:, whereupon Kline responded with an even more direct intrusion on Burroughs's territory by boldly setting two novels on Mars. Kline's jungle adventure stories, reminiscent of Burroughs's 184: 31: 984: 111:(July 1, 1891 – October 24, 1946) was an American songwriter, adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine 860: 1004: 999: 801:, Vol. 1, No. 4, July 1975, p. 24. (Issue includes a comics adaptation of Kline's "A Vision of Venus" from 1931, by Tim Conrad on pp. 25–29.) 979: 969: 944: 793: 974: 249:
Kline's novels normally received serial publication in magazines before their release in book form. The Mars novels appeared in
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In the mid-1930s Kline largely abandoned writing to concentrate on his career as a literary agent (most famously for fellow
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The serialization of Kline's novella "The Bride of Osiris" began in the August 1927
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3-part serial (October, November, December 1929), with brother Allen S. Kline
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originally set forth in a fan press article, "The Kline-Burroughs War," by
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for posthumous publication in 1939, although this claim is disputed.
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Book of the Dead: Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others
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John Locke, "Otis Adelbert Kline and the Invisible Hand" in
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The Thing's Incredible! The Secret Origins of Weird Tales
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Index

Otis Adelbert Kline, date unknown
Chicago
Illinois
Short Beach
Connecticut
literary agent
Science fiction
Weird Tales
E. Hoffmann Price
literary feud
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Planet of Peril
Martian
Venus
Venus novels
Tarzan
Donald A. Wollheim
Sam Moskowitz
Explorers of the Infinite
Richard A. Lupoff
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure
Weird Tales
Robert E. Howard
sword and sorcery
Conan the Barbarian
Almuric
Weird Tales
Argosy
The Port of Peril
Weird Tales

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