Complex sentence: The character, fully named Maximo Miller, first appeared in 1940, in a self-titled Big Little Book credited to Victor Appleton, the Stratemeyer Syndicate house name that was credited as the writer of the Tom Swift books.
Split into simpler sentences: The character, fully named Maximo Miller, first appeared in 1940, in a self-titled Big Little Book. Some copies of this book give authorship credit to Victor Appleton, the Stratemeyer Syndicate house name that was credited as the writer of the Tom Swift books.