Favorite forgotten series?

[Django The Bastard]

With a little research I was able to find a pic of the elusive Tobin 7...quite different from the other covers in the series and it looks like the series was called "Tobin's Commando" for this one...interesting...

[dionbrother]

I enjoyd the Ninja Master series as well. However, Ric Meyers only wrote three of the original "Men of Action" volumes: MOUNTAIN OF FEAR, DEATH'S DOOR and the final MOA volume (title escapes me) before becoming the sole "Wade Barker." I don't know who the other ghost writer was, but Ric's stand out because he fills them with allusions to Samurai and gung fu movies, plus tv detective shows. The other writer/writers had no real enthusiasm for the subject or martial arts knowledge. Ric told me years ago which ones he wrote. He was spending more time writing as "Dane Hartman" on the Dirty Harry paperbacks.

[Blue Tyson]

English said:

I was a big fan of all the men's adventure pulps of the 80's, the stranger the better. Funny to think how many complete geeks read them, rather than the he-men they were undoubtedly written for.
TNT, that was a pretty original one. Tony Nelson Twin, a journalist who got super-powers in some kind of H-Bomb explosion, and was always on these strange missions involving massive death traps that he could circumvent with his special powers. Not your typical shoot-em-up, again only lasted maybe 6 or 7 books. By Doug Masters, a few available still on Amazon.


Another favorite was the TRACKER series (maybe spelled TRAKKER?) which was so obscure I can't find anything on Amazon about it -- it was about a Navy hotshot who was blinded in an accident, but had special bionic radar eyes (or something!) installed so he could see far better than most. Really bizarre, they had in one a transvestite hitman trying to assassinate George Bush (senior) at a basketball game with an M-79, and in another Tracker became a professional wrestler to kill a hitman (and part-time wrestler) who had given him some grief. (He fries the guys brain IN THE WRESTLING RING with his special laser finger.)

Ah, and there were so many more. . .

Cool, didn't know about those ones!

[robonthejob]

Thanks, Doug, for the info on the sixth Col. Tobin book -- and what a depressing shocker to learn that most of the original army was killed.

That was what made the series so interesting -- the diverse soldiers, ranging from a Gurkha to an ex-Black Panther, from a Maltese to a Frenchman with metal legs.

I wonder if Caillou killed them off in a moment of pique with Pinnacle ...

[librarianson]

Anyone out there remember the Enforcer Series by Andrew Sugar? I am trying to find some information about the series or the author. The author's name sounds like a house publishing name so I have always wondered who really wrote this series. This was one of a couple of series that was published by two different publishing companies-like the Aquanauts and the Blade series by Jeffrey Lords.

[librarianson]

Djnago-was the cover art on the last Tobin book by George Gross (the Avenger series) by any chance-sure looks like one of his.

[jimpickens]

Traveler was a good but forgotten post apocalyptic series.

[jimpickens]

The Dan Track series
The Traveler series
Doc Savage
The John Carter Of Mars series
SOB

[PMP Webmaster]

Hey Jim, sorry the place has been so quiet these days.

Some good picks there. I've not come across the Traveler series, but I've got a couple of each of the others. So many books, so little time these days...

[dennis]

I loved Col. Tobin, haven't thought about it in YEARS!
An other strange series during the late 70's was...
The Smuggler
very unique, can't remember the author