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Ben Bryn
Created by Russell Gray (Bruno Fischer)
A childhood bout with polio left pulp private eye BEN BRYN with a pair of whithered and almost useless legs. But that didn't stop the 5'2" gumshoe from developing an extremely powerful upper torso, grim determination and a razor-sharp mind. As a child he had pushed himself about on a wheeled platform, selling newspapers and shoelaces, but, as he grew older, he developed a series of exercises that eventually restored his legs to normal, and became the most feared crimnal investigator in the state, battling seemingly one sadistic criminal mastermind after another.
Ben was one of the most popular of the so-called "defective detectives" that Dime Mystery loved so much, Ben was actually a toned-down version of Calvin Kane, the infamous "crab detective," whom readers evidently found rather hard to take. Ben's adventures were published for several years in that magazine.
Author Russell Gray (a pseudonym of Bruno Fischer) was one of the more prolific popular writers of the genre, starting out in the weird menace pulps back in the thirties, and eventually moving into the paperback market of the fifties, where he wrote tons of great stand-alones, as well as several novels featuring detectives Ben Helm and Rick Train.
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