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Post by PMP Webmaster on Mar 23, 2006 12:43:48 GMT -5
Here's the Death Merchant Wiki, brought to us by one of our guest posters noted in another DM thread. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_MerchantLooks damn good, many kudos for your hard work! I'll be putting a link to this wiki in the main PMP page ASAP. |
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Post by English Teacher X on Mar 25, 2006 9:37:31 GMT -5
Actually, it should be admitted that I didn't write all of that myself; there was some already on there (the initial description, the list of weapons and fellow mercs) and a list of books. The synopsis of plots I got off a website selling books. Although I fleshed some of the descriptions out myself.
I encourage anyone to add anything they think pertinent; I especially would like some great Death Merchant quotes on there, as I don't have any books handy. The one about him not being truly happy until the Soviet Union is a sea of radioactive glass, for example.
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Post by zanshin5 on Mar 31, 2006 1:19:05 GMT -5
Excellent! What a great overview of DM!
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Post by English Teacher X on Apr 1, 2006 3:19:27 GMT -5
Whoa! I notice somebody has added the fact that The Death Merchant has sex with somebody in THE BILLIONAIRE MISSION. Can anybody tell me more about that? I'm definitely ordering a copy as soon as possible!
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Post by Django The Bastard on Apr 1, 2006 15:33:19 GMT -5
He does in Flight of the Phoenix also...
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Post by PMP Webmaster on Apr 1, 2006 20:59:47 GMT -5
And he sleeps with a CIA staff girl in, I believe, The Iron Swastika Plot. I think most of his sleeping around was done in the earlier books, because by the 50's (issues, that is) there's almost no mention of sexuality at all.
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Post by Todd on Apr 17, 2006 16:10:44 GMT -5
hehe, I was the one who added that bit about the Billionaire Mission! Hilarious that you should notice that. I figured the poor guy should get credit for at least one roll in the hay! The interesting thing is that the description of the action is duplicated almost word for word in the Murder Master:Operation Hooker book (also by Rosenberger)... another funny thing I came across in my search for info on Joseph R Rosenberger... ameba.lpt.fi/~lindjori/englanti/index.htmCheck out the "company" page and see who the CEO is! Sadly none of the other links work and I wonder if the games really exist.... |
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Post by PMP Webmaster on Apr 18, 2006 9:52:47 GMT -5
Nah, that's got to be a spoof. 12 million copies sold? I don't think so. But still, that's pretty awesome. Read the quotes from various "reviewers". Priceless.
The Funny thing is, a lot of Death Merchant plots would be pretty sweet as a FPS computer game. Sort of like Rainbow Six with a little more survivability/pulpness.
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Post by English Teacher X on Apr 22, 2006 1:44:10 GMT -5
The Death Merchant books would be PERFECT for a computer/Playstation game. They were remarkably similar in design: get mission -- kill everyone. You could throw in some cut scenes about Camellion and Kartz and Grojean discussing Cold-war politics and Nostradamus, and you'd have a winner.
By the way, I encourage anyone to add anything to the Wikpedia entry -- you don't need to register, just click "edit" and you can add anything you want. Particularly, we need to add the plots of the books that I didn't put up there.
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Post by Django The Bastard on Apr 22, 2006 11:16:06 GMT -5
I loved that spoof site! FUN stuff!
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Post by Zanshinagainandagain on Apr 29, 2006 4:07:06 GMT -5
Excellent wiki! Although, the one after "mission deadly snow" is called "the cobra chase" - the series totalled 71, plus the super!
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Post by jonathansicari on Jun 19, 2006 21:24:02 GMT -5
Something I caught the other day reading The Greenland Mystery is that the SuperDeathMerchant (Apocalypse) takes place before that book (P. 152 The Greenland Mystery).
Jonathan
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Post by Django The Bastard on Jun 27, 2006 13:59:40 GMT -5
I thought that was the case, but it had been so long since I read them...so it looks like the crazy universe of Mama Camellion's blue-eyed boy didn't come to an end in Apocalypse!
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