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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 1, 2018 23:35:50 GMT -5
Some, geez, nearly 30 years ago (egad I'm old!) I lucked into almost the entire run of the Avenger paperbacks, in a used bookstore in Columbia, SC. I scooped 'em up (I was collecting any pulp reprints I could find). I only ended up reading a couple, with the rest sitting in a box, for years, before I unloaded them. I wish I hadn't, until I had at least read most or all of them; but, I knew that if they weren't engaging me enough, I was probably never going to get around to it. The Spider and Doc Savage held my interest more, even though both could be quite formulaic.
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Post by brianf on Jul 2, 2018 1:03:11 GMT -5
I picked this up a few years ago but haven't read it yet. As a kid I read a bunch of those 70's Marvel text novels, loved most of them.
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Post by berkley on Jul 18, 2018 22:53:34 GMT -5
I'm fond of these two less for their quality than for the cool fact that they even exist - Marvel's first attempt to put their characters into 'real' books, they were published by Bantam, who obviously were looking to attract the fans of the Doc Savage reprints they were doing. It's been a while since I read them; IIRC Ted White was not a big fan of super-types, and wrote the Cap book as a Doc-style pulp adventure. Otto Binder had a history w/super-heroes, of course, and did a more sf slant to his. I remember them both as being entertaining enough. But mostly they just look cool, and I really wish they'd been more successful.
I like the cover to this one. I'd be tempted to try it just based on that!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jul 19, 2018 10:48:39 GMT -5
I like the cover and the fact that it was published in the late 1960s, and wouldn't mind having it, but there's no way I'd shell out $30 or more to buy it.
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Post by rberman on Jul 19, 2018 11:10:58 GMT -5
These two came out recently, and I know one young lady who has bridged from them into reading the comics:
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2018 14:36:47 GMT -5
I like the cover and the fact that it was published in the late 1960s, and wouldn't mind having it, but there's no way I'd shell out $30 or more to buy it. I got it for about $10 a few months ago via Lonestar. -M
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 19, 2018 19:07:45 GMT -5
I'm fond of these two less for their quality than for the cool fact that they even exist - Marvel's first attempt to put their characters into 'real' books, they were published by Bantam, who obviously were looking to attract the fans of the Doc Savage reprints they were doing. It's been a while since I read them; IIRC Ted White was not a big fan of super-types, and wrote the Cap book as a Doc-style pulp adventure. Otto Binder had a history w/super-heroes, of course, and did a more sf slant to his. I remember them both as being entertaining enough. But mostly they just look cool, and I really wish they'd been more successful.
I like the cover to this one. I'd be tempted to try it just based on that!
It's not bad, for what it is; but, the Avengers didn't translate well to prose. The Captain America one, The Great Gold Steal, worked better.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jul 20, 2018 4:51:22 GMT -5
I got it for about $10 a few months ago via Lonestar. -M And you probably bought their last copy, because Lonestar now lists it as out of stock. $10, though, is still a bit pricey for me, and Lonestar's shipping charges for Europe are $16 if you order directly from their site, and usually well over $20 (!) if you order via eBay.
To expand on my original comment, I would love to find it in a thrift shop or flea market for a few bucks at most (I think $5 is the maximum I'd be willing to pay for it, given that - as cody notes - the story itself is probably middling).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2019 18:39:53 GMT -5
Coming in 2020, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc is launching a series of connected, canonical novels. Out of the bunch announced, I'm a biggest fan of Win Scott Eckert's , so I'll grab the Tarzan one for sure, but likely will end up getting the first one as well because I'm such a completist. Wouldn't want to read book 2 first.
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Post by berkley on Jul 22, 2019 0:37:56 GMT -5
Coming in 2020, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc is launching a series of connected, canonical novels. Out of the bunch announced, I'm a biggest fan of Win Scott Eckert's , so I'll grab the Tarzan one for sure, but likely will end up getting the first one as well because I'm such a completist. Wouldn't want to read book 2 first. Did you ever read Philip José Framer's Tarzan novel, The Dark Heart of Time? I thought it was really good. Recognisably a Farmer novel, while still capturing the essence of Tarzan as a character (IMO). Wish he had done more.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 13:07:45 GMT -5
Coming in 2020, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc is launching a series of connected, canonical novels. Out of the bunch announced, I'm a biggest fan of Win Scott Eckert's , so I'll grab the Tarzan one for sure, but likely will end up getting the first one as well because I'm such a completist. Wouldn't want to read book 2 first. Did you ever read Philip José Framer's Tarzan novel, The Dark Heart of Time? I thought it was really good. Recognisably a Farmer novel, while still capturing the essence of Tarzan as a character (IMO). Wish he had done more. I haven’t had a chance to get around to it yet. Since Meteor House just put out a new edition I plan to get that at some point. I’m a big fan of Farmer’s Tarzan biography and his Peerless Peer novel, so looking forward to reading his pure Tarzan.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2019 20:23:04 GMT -5
Coming in 2020, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc is launching a series of connected, canonical novels. Out of the bunch announced, I'm a biggest fan of Win Scott Eckert's , so I'll grab the Tarzan one for sure, but likely will end up getting the first one as well because I'm such a completist. Wouldn't want to read book 2 first. The ERB Universe adds a new heroine for the "super-arc!"Meet Victory Harben:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2019 18:16:33 GMT -5
Also got these from my mom through the Scholastic Book order:
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Post by berkley on Dec 31, 2019 2:27:48 GMT -5
Coming in 2020, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc is launching a series of connected, canonical novels. Out of the bunch announced, I'm a biggest fan of Win Scott Eckert's , so I'll grab the Tarzan one for sure, but likely will end up getting the first one as well because I'm such a completist. Wouldn't want to read book 2 first. The ERB Universe adds a new heroine for the "super-arc!"Meet Victory Harben: I'm glad there is such a thing as the ERB Universe but so far not much of their stuff has attracted me. For example, I'm not at all enticed by the idea of Tarzan moving into all the other ERB worlds like Venus and Mars and Pellucidar, etc - even though Burroughs himself set the precedent with the last. I understand the reasoning - they hope to attract more casual readers who will recognise the name 'Tarzan' but know nothing and care less about those other series - but for me it's the same thing I hate in comics, when they have to put Batman or Superman into every bloody story. In this respect, this new character Victory Harben, sounds more interesting to me than Tarzan on Venus or whatever.
I have to say, the artwork on these things is almost always a turn-off for me, just as it is in the Dynamite ERB comics - no disrespect to the artists, I'm sure there are lots of readers who like it fine, but none of it appeals to me personally, old fogy that I am.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2020 0:57:21 GMT -5
I’m a sucker for the interconnected Universes.
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