Was Pyro really a romance novelist?
Yes. But everyone forgets that he had another career and wrote other types of books too. The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe states: “For a time Allerdyce drifted from job to job around the South Seas. Eventually he became a journalist for an Australian wire service and covered Vietnam and Indonesia. What he saw and experienced in his travels became the basis for novels he began writing. (He also wrote torrid Gothic romances.) Allerdyce’s novels were despised by serious novelists and the critics, but they found wide readership throughout the English-speaking world.” Awaiting apparent death in Uncanny X-Men 255, he said bemusedly “I’ll never know if my new book’s a bestseller.
Yes. But everyone forgets that he had another career and wrote other types of books too. The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe states: “For a time Allerdyce drifted from job to job around the South Seas. Eventually he became a journalist for an Australian wire service and covered Vietnam and Indonesia. What he saw and experienced in his travels became the basis for novels he began writing.
