{"id":3329,"date":"2017-04-10T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2021-03-03T20:16:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T01:16:40","slug":"meet-i-v-frost-science-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2017\/04\/10\/meet-i-v-frost-science-detective\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet I.V. Frost, science detective"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"'Clues<\/a>
Clues Detective Stories<\/em> (April 1935)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another pulp hero who has been largely overlooked by most pulp fans is I.V. “Ivy” Frost<\/strong>. A science detective created by Donald Wandrei <\/strong>(1908-1987), he appeared in Street & Smith’s Clues<\/em> magazine in 1934.<\/p>\n

S&S was frustrated that Clues<\/em>, their newly-acquired dedicated mystery pulp, was being outsold by Black Mask<\/em>. So they commissioned Wandrei to create a continuing character that would attract and keep readers.<\/p>\n

Ivy Frost ran for 18 stories from September 1934 to September 1937. Several stories were cover featured. Was it successful? I don’t know, but Clues\/Clues Detective Stories<\/em> lasted until 1943 and appears to have ended due to the wartime paper shortages.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure why the Frost series ended, but find it interesting that Wandrei created another science detective for Clues Detective Stories<\/em>, Cyrus North<\/strong>, that ran six stories in 1938 and ’39. It had several cover features, and the first noted it was written by the creator of I.V. Frost.<\/p>\n

Professor I.V. “Ivy” Frost was a scientist who solved crimes, billed as an “American Sherlock Holmes<\/strong>.” (I guess someone forgot to mention that title was already taken by Harry Dickson<\/strong>.) An eccentric character, he wasn’t afraid to get his hands dirty solving a crime. He was no armchair detective.<\/p>\n

His assistant, Jean Moray<\/strong>, also broke the mold. Miss Moray was no dumb blonde secretary or damsel in distress. A sexy blonde with a genius IQ who packed a .25 derringer, she was the perfect counterpart to her boss.<\/p>\n

\"'Frost'\"<\/a>Fedogan & Bremer<\/a> planned to reprint the whole series in two volumes in 2000. The first volume<\/a> came out with the first eight stories in 2000, with a second one planned. It never appeared. Haffner Press<\/a> is coming out with a single-volume release of the whole series, The Complete Ivy Frost<\/em> that as of this writing has yet to appear. I was able to get that F&B collection several years back and really enjoyed the stories. I have the Haffner book on pre-order and can’t wait to read the whole series.<\/p>\n

Moonstone<\/a> will be coming out soon with a collection of new<\/em> Ivy Frost stories in a few months. It will be interesting to see if the Haffner book will come out before this.<\/p>\n

Comics<\/h3>\n

I.V. Frost never appeared in the Street & Smith comic books, but New Pulp<\/a> writer and editor Ron Fortier<\/a><\/strong> started working on new comic stories of Ivy Frost. I think the original plans were to have the stories appear in comics from Moonstone, but when that didn’t happen, he took them to Redbud Studio<\/a>, which is associated with Fortier’s Airship 27. One issue of I.V. Frost, Scientific Detective<\/em>, has come out so far with two original stories, in color. These can be ordered online. I think plans are for more stories, but no idea when.<\/p>\n

Frost is an interesting pulp hero who maybe now will be better known. Get the Haffner collection and the upcoming Moonstone collection. I’d love to see a complete collection of Wandrei’s Cyrus North stories as well. The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box<\/a> is working on that, but who knows when it will appear. I had only read the story that appeared in Pulp Vault<\/a><\/em> #14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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