Harkins, Peter J
Entry updated 16 February 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1916-2006) US author who collaborated with Harold Leland Goodwin on the first three volumes of the Invention-rich Rick Brant Science-Adventure sequence for teenage readers: The Rocket's Shadow (1947), The Lost City (1947) and Sea Gold (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1947), all published under Goodwin's usual pseudonym John Blaine (whom see for details and subsequent titles). Peter J Harkins may also be the Philip Harkins who with Goodwin wrote the late series episode Danger Below! (1968), again as by Blaine. [DRL]
Peter J Harkins
born Massachusetts: 19 November 1916
died 27 September 2006
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Rick Brant Science-Adventure
- The Rocket's Shadow (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1947) with Harold Leland Goodwin, writing together as John Blaine [Rick Brant Science-Adventure: hb/]
- The Lost City (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1947) with Harold Leland Goodwin, writing together as John Blaine [Rick Brant Science-Adventure: hb/Connolly]
- Sea Gold (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1947) with Harold Leland Goodwin, writing together as John Blaine [Rick Brant Science-Adventure: hb/Howard Connolly]
- Danger Below! (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1968) with Harold Leland Goodwin, writing together as John Blaine [Goodwin's collaborator here is Philip Harkins; see entry text: Rick Brant Science-Adventure: hb/Harry Kane]
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