Allen Chapman

I've been interested in pulps since a college course in childrens lit and my own reading as a child of Tom Swift, having never come across the Radio boys i wanted to give it a shot.

The series touts it's itself as the latest and most up to date information about radio, that may have been true in 1922 but of course things have changed a lot in the last ninety five years. The radio boys might be the first geeks, taking time to not only make their own radios but going so far as actually constructing the components. The book falls down on the simplified plot and the cloying goodness of the boys, I'm sure Twain would have railed on the author if he'd read it.

Character List

Bob Layton his chum, Joe Atwood, son of Henry Layton, the leading druggist and chemist of the town. Natural leader.
Joe Atwood, son of Dr. Atwood,oe shared Bob's fondness for athletic sports
Rose, a year or so younger than Joe, sister
Jimmy Plummer, one of their schoolmates, (Doughnuts) round, fat, lazy, and good-natured, and a great lover of the good things of life.

Herb Fennington, a special friend of Bob and Joe, came running over to greet them. lively, full of fun and jokes and an all-around "good fellow."

Bullies
Buck Looker, first name was Buckley—was generally unpopular among the boys,
Carl Lutz, an unwholesome looking boy,
Terry Mooney, the youngest of the three, a boy whose, furtive eyes carried in them a suggestion of treachery and sneakiness.

Miss Nellie Berwick, in car accident, orphan being swindled
Dan Cassey held a mortgage of four thousand dollars on my father's house. swindled her

Dr. Amory Dale, the pastor of the "Old First Church" of Clintonia, 30's. frame and bearing of an athlete. Dr. Dale talk on the wireless telephone,



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