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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 27, 2018 0:59:18 GMT -5
If you like pulp, try Black Coat Books Tales of the Shadowmen anthologies. They are edited by Jean-Marc and Rand Lofficier, and feature a variety of writers, penning stories about French pulp literary chaarcters, as well as characters from film, television, comics and elsewhere. Michael Moorcock contributed a Seaton Begg story, Kim Newman originated his Angels of Musik there, and Xavier Maumejean has had several brilliant stories, including one with the birth of The Village (from the Prisoner) which features Sherlock Holmes and Nayland Smith; another where Bertie Wooster and Jeeves meet Hercule Poirot and the "little grey cells" are matched against Jeeves' "wonderful brain." An early story has Judex encountering one Kent Allard, while investigating the theft of the Gotham Girasol, a ring possessed by Martha Wayne. There are allusions to the future Bruce Wayne's parentage that Finger and Kane never considered. Irma Vep, of Les Vampires (a silent crime serial) meets up with Fantomas, and several others make appearances.
Kim newman is also a great source, with his Anno Dracula novels, which feature characters from vampire lore, literature, film and television. meanwhile, his Diogenes Club books feature a government agency that deals in weird events; kind of the Jon pertwee Doctor Who-meets-The Avengers, with a little Jason King and Sapphire and Steel mixed in. Newman's Angels of Music and Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School appeal to those sensibilities and his Moriarty: Hound of the D'Urbevilles is the anti-matter version of Sherlock Holmes, with Prof Moriarty and Col. Sebastian Moran as consulting criminals.
Also, you can't beat Phillip Jose Farmer, who did all kinds of pulp pastiches and modern pulp, including A Feast Unknown, Lord of the Trees, The Mad Goblin, The Greatheart Silver stories, The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, the Peerless Peer (Tarzan meets Sherlock Holmes), Barnstormer of Oz, and some more.
For classic stuff, check out Talbot Mundy's Jimgrim stuff, which is available in eBook format. It's one of the forerunners to Indiana Jones and the like, as well as Robert E Howard's El Borak.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 27, 2018 4:38:02 GMT -5
(...) Also, you can't beat Phillip Jose Farmer, who did all kinds of pulp pastiches and modern pulp, including A Feast Unknown, Lord of the Trees, The Mad Goblin, The Greatheart Silver stories, The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, the Peerless Peer (Tarzan meets Sherlock Holmes), Barnstormer of Oz, and some more. (...) A Feast Unknown, yet another book sitting on the shelf waiting to be read... As to Greatheart Silver, those are pretty good stories, but to be honest, they were some of my least favorite entries in Weird Heroes. Despite that, I was tempted to get the book that collects them all just because of the lovely cover art by Howard Chaykin. Speaking of Weird Heroes alumni, I enjoyed the Kamus of Kadizar stories by J. Michael Reaves much more, and highly recommend the book Darkworld Detective, which collects the two stories from WH and has two new ones.
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Post by String on Feb 28, 2018 20:52:33 GMT -5
ps, Denny O'Neil's Question novel, from a few years back, is a good one. Is it called Helltown? Most of the prose that I still have is either Marvel- or DC-based. The JLA line of novels. The novelisations of classic events like Knightfall, the Death of Superman, No Man's Land, Crisis on Infinite Earths. Of Marvel's 90s line, I have quite a few books by Christopher Golden, such as The Mutant Empire Trilogy featuring the X-Men, Predator's Smile with DD, Codename Wolverine, a solo Logan book with Mystique and Black Widow. There's also The Cutting Edge, another DD novel by Madeleine E Robbins and The Chaos Engine Trilogy, an X-Men adventure by Steve Roman. Sadly, I no longer have X-Men/Avengers team-up trilogy by Greg Cox, which had one of the best match-up fights between Cyclops and Cap. I love Maggin's prose version of Kingdom Come, really filled out some details and depth to Waid's apocalyptic tale. And YES, I remember Miracle Monday, I bought that at a book fair at my elementary school way back in the late 70s though I can't remember the last time I read it. Some great suggestions throughout here. Like I mentioned before, I had no idea about this earlier line of books from Marvel. Though of the Hellboy novels (which I had heard of before), which ones would you recommend?
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 28, 2018 21:25:04 GMT -5
ps, Denny O'Neil's Question novel, from a few years back, is a good one. Is it called Helltown? Most of the prose that I still have is either Marvel- or DC-based. The JLA line of novels. The novelisations of classic events like Knightfall, the Death of Superman, No Man's Land, Crisis on Infinite Earths. Of Marvel's 90s line, I have quite a few books by Christopher Golden, such as The Mutant Empire Trilogy featuring the X-Men, Predator's Smile with DD, Codename Wolverine, a solo Logan book with Mystique and Black Widow. There's also The Cutting Edge, another DD novel by Madeleine E Robbins and The Chaos Engine Trilogy, an X-Men adventure by Steve Roman. Sadly, I no longer have X-Men/Avengers team-up trilogy by Greg Cox, which had one of the best match-up fights between Cyclops and Cap. I love Maggin's prose version of Kingdom Come, really filled out some details and depth to Waid's apocalyptic tale. And YES, I remember Miracle Monday, I bought that at a book fair at my elementary school way back in the late 70s though I can't remember the last time I read it. Some great suggestions throughout here. Like I mentioned before, I had no idea about this earlier line of books from Marvel. Though of the Hellboy novels (which I had heard of before), which ones would you recommend? That's the one. It kind of expands upon what O'Neil did in the Question series, in the late 80s I agree on Maggin's Kingdom Come novel; very good, added a lot of depth to the series. I've not read the Hellboy novels, myself. I have read Greg Rucka and Matt Wagner's Grendel: Past Prime, which is good.
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Post by String on Mar 2, 2018 14:12:28 GMT -5
Is it called Helltown? Most of the prose that I still have is either Marvel- or DC-based. The JLA line of novels. The novelisations of classic events like Knightfall, the Death of Superman, No Man's Land, Crisis on Infinite Earths. Of Marvel's 90s line, I have quite a few books by Christopher Golden, such as The Mutant Empire Trilogy featuring the X-Men, Predator's Smile with DD, Codename Wolverine, a solo Logan book with Mystique and Black Widow. There's also The Cutting Edge, another DD novel by Madeleine E Robbins and The Chaos Engine Trilogy, an X-Men adventure by Steve Roman. Sadly, I no longer have X-Men/Avengers team-up trilogy by Greg Cox, which had one of the best match-up fights between Cyclops and Cap. I love Maggin's prose version of Kingdom Come, really filled out some details and depth to Waid's apocalyptic tale. And YES, I remember Miracle Monday, I bought that at a book fair at my elementary school way back in the late 70s though I can't remember the last time I read it. Some great suggestions throughout here. Like I mentioned before, I had no idea about this earlier line of books from Marvel. Though of the Hellboy novels (which I had heard of before), which ones would you recommend? That's the one. It kind of expands upon what O'Neil did in the Question series, in the late 80s I agree on Maggin's Kingdom Come novel; very good, added a lot of depth to the series. I've not read the Hellboy novels, myself. I have read Greg Rucka and Matt Wagner's Grendel: Past Prime, which is good. Ah, good, then I did find the right one on Amazon. Thank you. Ooh, how did I forget Past Prime? A terrific novel with Wagner's art and an excellent continuance of the story from the War Child series.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 2, 2018 14:21:36 GMT -5
ps, Denny O'Neil's Question novel, from a few years back, is a good one. Is it called Helltown? Most of the prose that I still have is either Marvel- or DC-based. The JLA line of novels. The novelisations of classic events like Knightfall, the Death of Superman, No Man's Land, Crisis on Infinite Earths. Of Marvel's 90s line, I have quite a few books by Christopher Golden, such as The Mutant Empire Trilogy featuring the X-Men, Predator's Smile with DD, Codename Wolverine, a solo Logan book with Mystique and Black Widow. There's also The Cutting Edge, another DD novel by Madeleine E Robbins and The Chaos Engine Trilogy, an X-Men adventure by Steve Roman. Sadly, I no longer have X-Men/Avengers team-up trilogy by Greg Cox, which had one of the best match-up fights between Cyclops and Cap. I love Maggin's prose version of Kingdom Come, really filled out some details and depth to Waid's apocalyptic tale. And YES, I remember Miracle Monday, I bought that at a book fair at my elementary school way back in the late 70s though I can't remember the last time I read it. Some great suggestions throughout here. Like I mentioned before, I had no idea about this earlier line of books from Marvel. Though of the Hellboy novels (which I had heard of before), which ones would you recommend? All of the Hellboy novels by Christopher Golden are good, but the crown jewel is definitely Bones of the Giants which is not only a good book but one of my all time favorite Hellboy stories ever written, comic or otherwise.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 17:46:53 GMT -5
Someone mentioned the 90s Marvel prose novels in another thread, and I read quite a few of them back then. Some of the ones I remember were a pair of Iron Man novels by Greg Cox (who along with Peter David seemed to churn these books out)... Operation A.I.M... and the Armor Trap... a host of Spider-Man novels by Diane Duane (who I first discovered reading Star Trek novels) and Avengers/X-Men cross-0ver trilogy by the aforementioned Greg Cox... a host of other X-Men related novels many by Christopher Golden whose done a bunch of Hellboy books, horror novels and urban fantasy... an Avengers/Thunderbolts novel... a Nick Fury novel... and a bunch of Hulk books by Peter David... and Captain America: Liberty's Torch by Tony Isabella... These spanned most of the decade, starting int he early-to-mid 90s and lasting until around 2000 or so iirc. I got some in paperback, some form the SFBC, and some as gifts from friends who thought I was working too hard on my Master's Thesis and needed a break, knowing I liked super-heroes but not knowing where to actually buy comics and they saw these in a Barnes & Noble so picked them up for me as a surprise (they were employees there and part of my D&D gaming group. -M
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 17, 2018 21:45:36 GMT -5
Someone mentioned the 90s Marvel prose novels in another thread, and I read quite a few of them back then. Some of the ones I remember were a pair of Iron Man novels by Greg Cox (who along with Peter David seemed to churn these books out)... Operation A.I.M... and the Armor Trap... a host of Spider-Man novels by Diane Duane (who I first discovered reading Star Trek novels) and Avengers/X-Men cross-0ver trilogy by the aforementioned Greg Cox... a host of other X-Men related novels many by Christopher Golden whose done a bunch of Hellboy books, horror novels and urban fantasy... an Avengers/Thunderbolts novel... a Nick Fury novel... and a bunch of Hulk books by Peter David... and Captain America: Liberty's Torch by Tony Isabella... These spanned most of the decade, starting int he early-to-mid 90s and lasting until around 2000 or so iirc. I got some in paperback, some form the SFBC, and some as gifts from friends who thought I was working too hard on my Master's Thesis and needed a break, knowing I liked super-heroes but not knowing where to actually buy comics and they saw these in a Barnes & Noble so picked them up for me as a surprise (they were employees there and part of my D&D gaming group. -M I really wanted to enjoy the Nick Fury one; but, it was kind of bland. The Isabella Captain America book was fine; but nothing special. Cap seems to be a hard one to translate to prose, as he is a very visually dynamic character. I thought Will Murray would be a great fit with Fury; but, it just never really grabbed me and it just kind of felt like second rate men's adventure pulp, without the sex. I didn't read any of Greg Cox's Iron man books; but, his Khan books, from the Star Trek line, were excellent. Along these lines, the Modesty Blaise prose novels, by Peter O'Donnell (who co-created the comic strip) are just as good as the strip adventures. O'Donnell knew how to translate things into prose, has great plots and plenty of action. He even wrote a final send off for Modesty and Willie Garvin., The Cobra Trap.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 19, 2018 11:43:03 GMT -5
I recently picked up a copy of this:
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 19, 2018 12:21:55 GMT -5
I recently picked up a copy of this: I've got a couple of those I picked up used. Also have all the Flash Gordon books that came out about the same time in the 70s. Hermes Press recently did new editions of the Phantom books...but they're expensive.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 19, 2018 23:22:01 GMT -5
I recently picked up a copy of this: I used to have the whole line, and kick myself for letting them go. Ron Goulart did the ghost writing on a lot of it, based on Lee Falk Plots, from the comic strips (in several cases). I had one of the Flash Gordon books, which I believe was also Goulart. The Phantom books are excellent and capture the flavor of the strip well. That first one in a nice trip through Phantom history, including mixing in the female Phantom (twin sister of one generation of the Phantom, who took over for an adventure, when he was injured).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2018 23:33:27 GMT -5
I have 2 or 3 of those Phantom novels (I used to have a bunch more but also let then go at one point and the past coupe of years been trying to get them again, and yes the reissues are very, very pricey, I can usually find vintage copies for less when I can find them (they are hard to come by in the wild). I have a bunch of Flash Gordon prose books, but I am not sure which ones you guys are referring to... are you referring to the Avon paperbacks... or the Ace/Tempo books... I have most of the Ace/Temo books and a pair of the Avon books. -M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 20, 2018 10:44:04 GMT -5
I have 2 or 3 of those Phantom novels (I used to have a bunch more but also let then go at one point and the past coupe of years been trying to get them again, and yes the reissues are very, very pricey, I can usually find vintage copies for less when I can find them (they are hard to come by in the wild). I have a bunch of Flash Gordon prose books, but I am not sure which ones you guys are referring to... are you referring to the Avon paperbacks... or the Ace/Tempo books... I have most of the Ace/Temo books and a pair of the Avon books. -M I was talking about the Avon line. They came out circa '74-'76 or so, so roughly contemporaneous with the Phantom books.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 20, 2018 14:03:57 GMT -5
Same here; the Avon books (they also did the Phantom line). I saw a couple of the Ace/Tempo and skimmed through them; but never purchased one. I did have the 1980 film novelization, which included the finale of the Super Bowl, a tv appearance by Flash, and his noticing Dale in a restaurant/bar, before they meet up on the plane. I always wondered if any of that was filmed or cut from the script, prior to filming. There was a kid's storybook that included a shot of Flash on a football field (or bleachers), which led me to believe the game was cut from the film. I suspect, now, it was a publicity photo, as filming something the size of a Super Bowl game, on the apparent budget of that film, seems unlikely.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 21:43:46 GMT -5
Picked up the first 5 Avenger novels, as well as an autographed copy of the later novel The Sun King from Moonstone. I also got the Craig Shaw Gardner paperback The Batman Muders. They had the first 96 Doc Savage novels for 300 bucks but I just couldn’t bring myself to pull the trigger.
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