Daring Tales of Two-Fisted Adventure
Publisher: Johnny Dare
Writers: Johnny Dare, Howard E. Roberts, John Scott Douglas
Artists: Allen St. John, Margaret Brundage
Photographer: Lee Francis
Support Staff: Wilma Bigglesworth, Jimmy "The Kid" Conway
The office of DTTFA is located on the top floor of a 3-story building sitting along the famous Hollywood Boulevard, three buildings down from the recently opened Egyptian Theater. It shares the building witha first-floor Laundromat and a second-floor private detective agency, Doc Long's A-1 Detective Agency. The office itself is small, as only a small number of the staff isusually there at any one time. The secretary, Ms. Bigglesworth, works the phone and handles dealing with walk-in customers and other people with questions. She also handles subscription lists and most day-to-day financial matters. Her assistant is young Jimmy Conway, who is known simply as "The Kid" around the office. He runs errands during the day and helps keep the place clean when not otherwise busy.
There are three main writers: Johnny Dare, Howard E. Roberts, and John Scott Douglas. Of the three, only Johnny spends any time in the office; the other two work at home, pounding on their typewriters in their too-hot L.A. apartments for the too-small paychecks DTFFA provide. When they have a story done, they simply drop their work off at the DTTFA where Ms. Bigglesworth writes them a check. Roberts and Douglas only work in fiction, while Dare finds his stories in his amazing real-life adventures around the world. Roberts prefers the horror and sc-fi genres, while Douglas enjoys doing full-throttle action-adventure pieces and the occasional true-crime story.
There are also two full-time artists: Allen St. John and Margaret Brundage. These two work out of their own studios and provide the front cover artwork and most of the interior work. Both the writing staff and art staff are supplemented by the occasional freelancer.
DTTFA occasionally runs photographs, with Lee Francis their in-house photographer. Photos are usually used to accompany the occasional true-crime story that DTTFA runs. Francis is a former LAPD officer with extensive ties within the department. When there is a titillating crime to cover, he gets the dirt. His former partner is one Officer Pete "Petey" Arbuckle, the man anyone on the DTTFA staff goes to when an inside LAPD contact is needed.
Johnny Dare maintains a professional relationship with his staff, with the only exception being Ms. Bigglesworth, who is a long-time friend of his mother. While he feigns annoyance with Ms. Bigglesworth's constant nagging about this and that, he actually loves the woman as a second mother. Her employment at DTTFA is not all personal, however. She is a talented secretary in her own right and does a great job of keeping things running smoothly around the office even when Johnny Dare isn't present (and sometimes despite his presence).
Currently, Johnny is working on a piece on the attack on the Pacific Adventurers Club that he witnessed that resulted in the death of one member and several of the Chinese attackers. Howard E. Roberts is working on a piece of fiction tentatively titled The Missing Casket. John Scott Douglas is putting the finishing touches on a true-crime investigative report he's been working on regarding the unsolved mysterious death of Mickey Myers, an up-and-coming young actor rumored to be involved in some Hollywood homosexual clique. The working title is A Swish in the Night, though that might change.
