Victor Appleton

Victor Appleton was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, most famous for being associated with the Tom Swift series of books.

The following series have been published under the Victor Appleton name:

• Tom Swift, 1910–1941
• Motion Picture Chums, 1913–1916
• Moving Picture Boys, 1913–1922
• Movie Boys, 1926–1927
• Don Sturdy, 1925-1935
• Tom Swift, Jr., 1954–1971 (technically, "Victor Appleton II")
• Tom Swift (Third Series), 1981–1984
• Tom Swift (Fourth Series), 1991–1993
• Tom Swift (Terror on the Moons of Jupiter)

Victor Appleton is credited as being the author of the Don Sturdy series which include:

• ‘’Don Sturdy in the Tombs of Gold’’, illustrated by Walter S. Rogers, 1925
• ‘’Don Sturdy Across the North Pole’’, illustrated by Walter S. Rogers, 1925
• ‘’Don Sturdy With the Big Snake Hunters’’, illustrated by Walter S. Rogers, 1925
• ‘’Don Sturdy On the Desert of Mystery’’, illustrated by Walter S. Rogers, 1925
• ‘’Don Sturdy Among the Gorillas’’, illustrated by Walter S. Rogers, 1927
• ‘’Don Sturdy Captured by Head Hunters’’, illustrated by Walter S. Rogers, 1928
• ‘’Don Sturdy In Lion Land’’, illustrated by Walter S. Rogers,1929
• ‘’Don Sturdy On the Ocean Bottom’’, illustrated by Walter S. Rogers, 1931
• ‘’Don Sturdy in the Temples of Fear’’, illustrated by Nat Falk,1932
• ‘’Don Sturdy Lost in Glacier Bay’’, illustrated by Nat Falk, 1933
• ‘’Don Sturdy Trapped in the Flaming Wilderness’’, illustrated by Nat Falk, 1934

Ghostwriters of these books included Howard Roger Garis, John W. Duffield, W. Bert Foster, Debra Doyle with James D.Macdonald, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Robert E. Vardeman, Thomas M. Mitchell, and James Duncan Lawrence.