Edward Elmer Campbell

Edward Elmer Campbell, Jr., was the pseudonymous author of “The Frolic Apace,” a humorous fan fiction serial appearing in Bob Madle’s Fantascience Digest beginning in issue 12 (January 1940). In Fancyclopedia 1, Jack Speer called it a “burlesque.”

With the third installment, the author complained,

It is time rather to worry about the unsung author of this thundering epic. He isn’t EESmith, and he isn’t John Campbell, Jr. He accepted the editor's suggestion that he very cleverly call himself Edward Elmer Campbell, Jr., a combinat­ion of the two, and fully anticipated that all fans everywhere would go into a frenzy of frenzied speculation as to just WHO he really was. So far there has not been a single coherent speculation. Nobody yet has asked "Who is he?” Many people have asked "What is it?” Apparently those who gave the matter any consideration whatever just decided that (1) Edward Elmer Campbell, Jr. was our name, or (2) knew better and just didn't give a happy hurrah.

There's something worse than a woman scorned. It’s an author ignored. There's nothing worse. 

In Fanfare 3 (August 1940), Earl Singleton commented:

Incidently, the current rumor that Louis Russell Chauvenet is Edward Elmer Campbell, Jr. (Captain of the Frolic Apace, of Fantascience Digest) has no foundation in fact. Let me suggest that E. E. C., Jr. is more likely to be a synthesis of Jack (Cupid) Agnew and Bob (Stupor-epic) Madle.

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