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Post by PMP Webmaster on Mar 14, 2005 11:00:58 GMT -5
All right, I'm going to "sticky" this thread to the top of the page.
Thanks to Zanshin's idea, I'm starting a Series Database on the PMP site. A brief listing of every action/adventure series we can think of. So, those of you out there who have something that no one else seems to have ever heard of - now's your chance to put that info here and I'll add it to a PMP page once we begin to build some steam.
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Post by zanshin2 on Apr 6, 2005 21:27:38 GMT -5
It would be nice if, since this board allows guests, to not have to remember a password to post. For ease of use, I simply added a "2" after my username. I recently found "The Specialist" series by John Cutter #'s 1 through 11 on ebay for 10 bucks. Anyone familiar with this series? I've never read it but thought what the hell.
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Post by PMP Webmaster on Apr 7, 2005 8:55:01 GMT -5
If you'd prefer to just post as "guest", that's fine by me. I don't believe I can change or remind you of your password if you've forgotten it. If you want, I can delete your username.
EDIT: You can also set the board to automatically log you in from the same computer as long as you don't routinely erase all your cookies from your standard browser.
Regarding "The Specialist", take a look at the PMP review page. I've recently added my "Series Overview" to the site. I've read a number of them. In short, if you're looking for another Executioner, don't bother. If you're looking for the literary equivilent of a late-night cable action movie, you're golden.
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Post by zanshin2 on Apr 8, 2005 0:27:22 GMT -5
I found the original email with the password. No problem! I skimmed a few chapter of the specialist #1 - I agree, absolutely "late-night cable!" Here are a few to add to the pmp list: LA Wars by Carl Ramm, there are 3 issues I know of. Also a series called "VICAP" by Mike Newton (a regular Bolan writer). Recently found Ninja Master#1 by Wade Barker. Gold Eagle also did 2 issues by called "Dagger" by "Richard Stevens"
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Post by zanshin2 on Apr 8, 2005 16:09:47 GMT -5
Some more titles for the PMP List. All of these I have at least one of, and they are numbered #2, #3, etc, so they were a series at one time. On some of them I don't have the authors name on the want-list on my computer for some reason, maybe some of you can tell us more about these different series, like how many issues there were, etc? :
The Adjusters by Peter Winston
Apache by Willam James
Ahes by William Johnstone
The Avenger by Chet Cunningham
Black Ops by Michael Kasner (Gold Eagle)
Deadly Force by Mark Dixon
Devon's Way by Rod Pennington
Donovan's Devils by Lee Parker
Enforcer by Andrew Sugar
The Guardians by Richard Austin
Gonji by T.C. Rypel
Hawker (not "LA Wars" as I previosly posted) by Carl Ramm
The Hitman by Norman Winski
Jason Striker, Master of the Martial Arts
Killsquad by Frank Garrett
Kung Fu featuring MACE by Lee Chang
Liberty Corps by Mark K. Roberts (Penetrator writer)
Little Saigon by Nicholas Cain (80s able team/bolan writer)
The Mauraders
Michael Sheriff - the Shield by Preston MacAdam
Nolan by Max Collins
The Protector by Rich Rainey
Psi-Man by David Peters
The Rat Bastards by John Mackie
The Sergeant
Soldier for Hire
Soldier of Fortune Presents...
Soldiers of War
Springblade by Greg Walker
Stone: MIA Hunter by Jack Buchanan (who did a few series, I think)
Storm Birds by Brian Kelleher
Talon Force by Cliff Garnett (a newer, more modern series)
They Call Me The Mercenary (Jerry Ahern writing as Axel Kilgore - great pen name for the genre!)
Tobin's War by Alan Cailou (I think the first few issues were called "the secret army of colonel tobin")
Warkeep 2030 by Micahel Kasner
The Warlord by Jason Frost
The Zone by James Rouche
whew!
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Post by doug on Apr 9, 2005 23:19:42 GMT -5
I found this site quite by accident, looking for info. on Rosenberger and The Death Merchant. It's a great idea, hope it lasts. Thanks for the reviews, too, which are interesting.
I'm not the expert some are here, but a few you might consider:
Edward S. Aarons's "Assignment" series -- I'm currently reading a bunch of these with the maybe-idea of doing an article on them for a mystery fiction publication. They started in the late fifties and ran, I think, until the early Seventies. They feature tough spy Sam Durrell running around the world and fighting Communists. Aarons, an old pulp hand from way back, was quite good with setting: apparently he rarely left his home but you wouldn't know it from the books. Most of his books end with a very long action setpiece, it's good stuff all around.
Philip Atlee's "Joe Gall" -- Another superspy, notable in that Atlee knew a lot about the business. I'm not a huge fan of the series, most installments of which that I've read seem a little flat. A lot of people really like them, though. There is a famous installment where the hero addicts himself to heroin in order to penetrate the bad guy's operation, shades of the recent "24" season.
Alan Cailou -- This guy is fascinating, too. Apparently at times an actor? The series that's mentioned above, Tobin's army, is a holy grail of sorts among some enthusiasts: I have a couple of volumes but haven't read them yet. Cailou also wrote the "Cabot Cain" series, sort of a Doc Savage knockoff about a humongously tall genius who runs around saving the day -- I've read three or four books in that series and they're great. There's also a spy series that I know of, but the title escapes me.
I wouldn't throw Max Allan Collins's Nolan series into this hopper, myself: it's a little too ambitious in tone and feel for straight up pulp. Maybe a better fit, although IMO not really pulp either, is Ralph Dennis's "Hardman" series, about a white and black PI doing the PI thing. More a conventional detective series packaged as a men's adventure thing, though.
Keep up the good work! I'll stop by now and then.
doug
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Post by Mark on Apr 11, 2005 20:58:13 GMT -5
Doug wrote: "They feature tough spy Sam Durrell running around the world and fighting Communists...Most of his books end with a very long action setpiece, it's good stuff all around."
Yeah, great stuff. I used to read the "Assignment" when I was a kid...drawn in by the tantalizing Robert McGinnis covers. Aarons was no Donald Hamilton, but then he turned in more books in a shorter period of time.
Regardless the Sam Durrell novels were vastly superior to the most of the spy and paperback vigilante stuff of the 60s and 70s.
About a year ago, I came across about 30 of the Durrells, all in absolute pristine condition as if they'd never been read at a big second-hand merchandise store in Fall River, MA. Ten cents a piece. Still smiling about it.
Doug said: "Philip Atlee's "Joe Gall" -- Another superspy, notable in that Atlee knew a lot about the business. I'm not a huge fan of the series, most installments of which that I've read seem a little flat. A lot of people really like them, though. There is a famous installment where the hero addicts himself to heroin in order to penetrate the bad guy's operation, shades of the recent "24" season."
Yeah, the Gall books are little darker than the Assignment series..."Philip Atlee" was one of the drafters of the CIA...his brother, David Atlee Philips was suspected of being Lee Harvey Oswald's recruiter and handler.
However, the Joe Gall books are intelligent and enjoyable if a little light on the mayhem compared to Matt Helm and Sam Durrell.
Doug inquired: "Alan Cailou -- This guy is fascinating, too. Apparently at times an actor?"
Yep, he appeared on a couple of episodes of The Man From UNCLE and wrote several scripts for them, too. He also contributed to the Executioner series but his work wasn't well received editorially.
Doug furthe opines: "I wouldn't throw Max Allan Collins's Nolan series into this hopper, myself: it's a little too ambitious in tone and feel for straight up pulp."
I'm with you there...Nolan is too close to the Chandler/Hammet/MacDonald school to be a paperback vigilante.
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Post by Couple of corrections on Apr 11, 2005 21:14:05 GMT -5
Actually, it's Peter David. And on the main database...the series listed as Outlands by James Axler "and others" is actually OutlandERS The James Axler in that case is Mark Ellis who created the series and is the only writer who actually created a Gold Eagle series who is still with it... And who happens to be me. Only two others have contributed to the series over the last eight years...three books by Mel Odom and three (so far) by Victor Milan. As for Deathlands, the writing chores has been divided up among nine or ten regular contributors. Good job of research of all the way around though, despite a couple of minor things like that. |
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Post by doug on Apr 12, 2005 20:20:09 GMT -5
It's neat that an actual writer of this stuff stopped by. Hope you stick around a bit. (I've bumped into the Outlanders books at times.)
I'm interested in Alan Cailou, thanks for the info. The Cabot Cain books are really nice surprises, very well-done men's adventure novels that sort of slipped under everyone's radar. Dr. Hermes has written on them in the alt.pulp usenet group.
Enthused about this whole subject, I went out and bought a few pulpy paperbacks over the weekend. There's DEATH MERCHANT #13: THE MATO GROSSO HORROR, which there's a whole seperate board here for, but also:
Piers Anthony and Roberto Fuentes: THE BAMBOO BLOODBATH (Jason Striker, Master of Martial Arts #3)
Andrew Sugar: THE ENFORCER: BIO BLITZ
and the one I'm holding most hope for, Paul Edwards: JOHN EAGLE EXPEDITOR - THE FIST OF FATIMA.
doug
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Post by Mark on Apr 13, 2005 7:08:20 GMT -5
Well, Outlanders is oriented more to readers of military science-fiction than the dead postnuke survivalist sh--er, stuff.
It's tenuously connected to the Deathlands series by being set in the same fictional universe, 102 years in the future, but it's much more high adventure and high-tech.
To be completely honest, I think most of the paperback vigilante stuff from the 70s was utter, pointless dreck, and I'm being restrained there.
However, there were a few series that rose above the sewer that most of the others seemed content to wallow in--
The Lone Wolf, by Barry Malzberg, which semi-accurately portrayed what would really happen if a cop went down the rogue vigilante route...
The Inquisitor by Martin Cruz Smith, about the Vatican's special agent...very amusing and surprisingly intelligent for the kind of category the series was in.
Hardman is on the fringe of paperback vigilante series, since it was more of a private eye series, but it was solidly written
The Penetrator...well, quality of that series varied widely and wildly. I read a few that were great and more that were mediocre and a few that were hacked out garbage.
Blade was another fringe series, more science-fiction/sword and sorcery but like The Penetrator the quality varied widely and wildly. Some were excellent, many more were banal.
The Executioner and The Destroyer I consider to be in categories by themselves and they're the only ones that survived.
I personally don't consider the Matt Helm, Sam Durrell, Joe Gall, Travis McGee or Shell Scott series to be post-modern pulp because they pre-date the paperback vigilante rush of the 70s...in Durrell and Scott's case, by almost 20 years.
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Post by jimpi3216 on May 13, 2005 19:57:29 GMT -5
I'm still working on finding all the info on the following but thought I'd at least post the titles for now. These are all possible additions to the master list. If the author is listed, I've no idea right now if that is the "real" author or not but I'm working on it.
The Last Ranger
Outrider - Richard Harding
Cody's Army
Traveler - DB Drumm
Earth Blood - Jerry Ahern
Hatch - can't remember the exact titles, I think one was Hatch's Island and there was at least one more
Also, wondering what you guys might think of James Rollins' stuff? While I don't know that he fits snugly into the category of post-modern pulp, some of his stories are really well done and contain a good amount of action and adventure.
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Post by zanshin3 on May 16, 2005 22:14:15 GMT -5
Would the "Rogue Warrior" qualify? I read the first two and have slowly found other volumes by Richard Marcinko. It's very well written by a guy who actually did that stuff! (killing bad guys around the world, etc)
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Post by JimPI3216 on May 17, 2005 12:19:26 GMT -5
Ok, here's some info to add to the list.
Rig Warrior William Johnstone Pinnacle 1988? 3 books in series.
Storm Rider Robert Baron Unknown pub 3 books in series
Cody's Army Jim Case Warner Books 1986-1988 7 books in series.
Earthblood James Axler Gold Eagle 1993-1994 3 books in series.
The Last Ranger Craig Sargent Warner books 1986-1989 10 books in series.
Traveler DB Drumm Dell 1984-1987 13? books in series.
Outrider Richard Harding 1984-1985 5 books in series (note that Amazon.com lists a 6th book but it was never published).
Hatch Don Merritt Bantam Books 1986-1987 3 books in series.
Also, have some info on titles already on the master list.
Hawker is listed as written by Carl Ramm, that is a pseudonym for Randy Wayne White.
SOBs is Soldiers of Barrabas, not Sons. There are 33 regular books in the series, plus five "Super SOBs" similar to the Super Bolans.
The Warlord was published 1983-1987 and there are 6 books in the series.
I'll continue to add more info as I come across it.
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Post by PMP Webmaster on May 25, 2005 9:45:11 GMT -5
Thanks very much for your input, Jim! Things have been busy on this end, but rest assured, I'll be incorporating your information into the list and updating it soon, probably some time this week.
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Post by scott1964 on May 25, 2005 22:24:02 GMT -5
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