Forgotten Authors: Wilbur Scott Peacock
Wilbur Scott Peacock was born in Wichita, Kansas on June 27, 1915 to Walter Winfield Peacock and Vera (nee France).
Peacock married Eva Lucille Studer in 1940, although their marriage only last a couple of years and she remarried in 1943. Peacock married Gladys Lucille Malagen in 1958. Peacock and Gladys had a daughter, Sharon, and a son, Wynn.
Peacock began publishing fiction in the Fall 1940 issue of Jungle Stories with “The Ju Ju Kiss.” His story “Life Cycle” appeared in the October 1940 issue of Science Fiction and “Uranian Justice” appeared that same month in Captain Future. Over the next fourteen years, hs fiction would appear in numerous magazines, including Terror Tales, Planet Stories, Future Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Blue Book, Super Science Stories, The Phantom Detective, and Startling Stories. Although they usually appeared under bylines reflective of his real name, the story “The Silver Witch” appeared as by John Peter Drummond, a house name used for Ki-Gor stories in Jungle Stories, and shared with Jerome Bixby, Robert Turner, Stanley Mullen, and others. Peacock’s final story, Martians Twitter,” appeared in the July 1954 issue of Fantastic Story