Craine, E J
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1881-? ) US bookkeeper and author of many Young Adult titles in the 1920s and 1930s, some of which rationalize supernatural elements; the only titles with genuine fantasy content are written for younger readers. She is of sf interest primarily for her Airplane Boys sequence (see Airplane Boys), which was also published – simultaneously or soon after – as the Flying Buddies sequence, or the Sky Larking Comrades sequence as by M Delmore Marquith. These various forms of series title, and the assorted variant titles and pseudonyms used to differentiate them, are difficult to sort; we are deeming the Airplane Boys titles to precede, on little evidence beyond the fact that her own name is used on this iteration, and because the later titles are published solely under this rubric; we are not presuming that the Marquith titles follow later, though there is some evidence that they do. Over the course of the series, the lads encounter, and make use of in their exploits, various Inventions well in advance of historical reality; Lost Races are discovered, as well as the occasional conspiracy against world civilization, which they thwart. [JC]
Edith Janice Craine
born Ohio: 1881
works
series
Airplane Boys / Sky Larking Comrades / Sky Buddies
- The Air Mystery of Isle la Motte (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1930) [Airplane Boys: hb/]
- Airplane Boys #1: The Airplane Boys on the Border Line (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1930) [vt of the above: Airplane Boys: hb/]
- Sky Larking Comrades #1: The Borderline Mystery (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1930) as by M Delmore Marquith [vt of the above: Airplane Boys: Sky Larking Comrades: hb/]
- Cap Rock Flyers (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1930) [Airplane Boys: hb/]
- Airplane Boys #2: The Airplane Boys at Cap Rock (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1930) [vt of the above: Airplane Boys: hb/]
- Sky Larking Comrades #2: Flying Buddies of Texas (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1930) as by M Delmore Marquith [vt of the above: Airplane Boys: Sky Larking Comrades: hb/]
- Airplane Boys on the Borderline and Airplane Boys at Cap Rock (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1930) [omni of the above two: Airplane Boys: hb/]
- The Sky Buddies Secret of Cuzco (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1930) [Airplane Boys: The Sky Buddies: hb/]
- Airplane Boys #3: Airplane Boys Discover the Secrets of Cuzco (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1930) [vt of the above: Airplane Boys: The Sky Buddies: hb/]
- Sky Larking Comrades #3: Flying in Southern Wilderness (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1930) as by M Delmore Marquith [vt of the above: Airplane Boys: Sky Larking Comrades: hb/]
- Flying to Amy-Ran Fastness (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1930) [Airplane Boys: hb/]
- Airplane Boys #4: Airplane Boys Flying to Amy-Ran Wilderness (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1930) [vt of the above: Airplane Boys: hb/]
- Sky Larking Comrades: The Emerald Temple Air-Mystery (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1930) as by M Delmore Marquith [vt of the above: Airplane Boys: Sky Larking Comrades: hb/]
- Airplane Boys at Platinum River (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1931) [Airplane Boys: hb/]
- Airplane Boys with the Revolutionists in Bolivia (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1931) [Airplane Boys: hb/]
- Airplane Boys in the Black Woods (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1932) [Airplane Boys: hb/]
- Airplane Boys at Belize (Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1932) [Airplane Boys: hb/]
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