Hobe Sound, Florida the area before European settlement. The Spanish pronounced Jove/Jobe as , which later evolved into the current spelling "Hobe". The earliest recorded European contact occurred in 1696 when a British ship, the barkentine (three-masted ship) "Reformation", sailing from Jamaica to Philadelphia sank close to the shore north of Jupiter Inlet, carrying 25 passengers and crew and a cargo of sugar, rum, beef, molasses, and Spanish currency. The small Quaker party, including its most notable passenger, Jonathan Dickinson, encountered and received aid from the Jove Indians. Hobe Sound received its name by 1699, according to the Florida WPA Guide. Parts of
Jove Books published in the 1970s were the series of historical novels written by John Jakes, the Kent Family Chronicles, beginning with "The Bastard" (1974), which were well-timed for popular interest in the U.S. Revolutionary War and the bicentennial celebration of independence. More modest or more critical than commercial successes published in the decade included "Man on Fire: A Novel of Revolution" by Bruce Douglas Reeves (1971) and several novels by Barry N. Malzberg. A series of "crossover" books, bridging prose fiction and comics, was the eight-volume "Weird Heroes" series of anthologies and novels (1975–77), where new superheroes and pulp-magazine-style adventure heroes