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Chad Carter
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I read DOOMSDAY several times when I was younger. And is CRIME CAMPAIGN the one where Spider-Man pounds the Kingpin's face into purple mush at the end? It's an image I never forgot, even if the rest of the novel is gone. Or am I thinking MAYHEM IN MANHATTAN? I'm being thrown off by the Kingpin cover.
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Doug Jones
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I read Mudermoon and Miracle Monday...don't remember that much about them, except for what a different (and less interesting) experience it was to read about these characters in prose.
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Darren De Vouge
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I had and read the Superman:Last Son of Krypton one, back in the day.
I read and STILL have # 4,5,7,9 and 10 of the Marvel Novel Series books although I wish mine were in better shape. My favourites were Doomsday, Mayhem in Manhatten and Marvel Superheroes (the Avengers and X-Men segements)
This is the first time I have ever seen those Bantam paperbacks. I would love to find them (especially the Avengers one) although they probably cost a pretty penny if found in good shape.
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Wes Wescovich
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In a nutshell--I gave up on Last Son of Krypton with page 78.
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Glenn, you need to scan through the book and find the chapter that has Albert Einstein in Smallville. It's very well written and is my favorite part.
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Pierce Askegren
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On the other hand, that's precisely the section (of Maggin's novel) that I found the nuttiest and most out-of-place.
Sometime after my earlier post, I recalled more Goulart comics-related novels. He wrote Star Hawks (based on his and GIl kane's strip), and Phantom and Flash Gordon books. I'm sure there are more. He's also the author of the Ty Banner series, shorts and at least one novel about a comic strip artist who gets involved in murder mysteries.
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John OConnor
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What I stll chuckle at is Kan'g last line in the book "Never trust...blue!" Sometimes I'll say t for my own amusement, and well, no one seems to get it but me. Alal....
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Jeff Lommel
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Wes, I got to about the same point as Glenn when I too actually picked it up and read it recently. I got it when I was a kid, thinking it was the movie novelization, which it was anything but. Being 8 or so, and having no grasp of what the hell Maggin was going on about, I put it away for, apparently, 27 years! Bored me silly, even knowing about the different DCU characters and places like I do now. I put it back on the shelf. Maybe in another 27 years.
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Eric Lund
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How good were the Iron Man and Doctor Strange books???
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Pierce Askegren
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The Captain America book (the later one) has a scene in which the Red Skull tortures an underling for bringing him a corned beef instead of pastrami sandwich.
Or maybe the other way around. It's been a long time.
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Glenn Greenberg
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<<Glenn, you need to scan through the book and find the chapter that
has (((SPOILER))). It's very well written and is my favorite part.>>
That was within the first 78 pages, so I did read that chapter.
Sorry, Wes, but I really didn't like it. I'll admit that it was a charming
depiction of (((SPOILER))), but the whole idea was so contrived and so NOT
a natural fit with Superman's origin, that it didn't work for me at all.
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Jeff Palm
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I see this series at the used bookstore, usually for 1-2 dollars each. Are they worth reading? I am assuming, that since there are more than a hundred in the series, there must be some good stories in the bunch.
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Pierce Askegren
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The Perry Rhodan books are translations of a German pulp series. I thought they were pretty creaky, even back in the day -- dated even then, and unevenly translated -- but some people like 'em. The later books include some otherwise very hard-to-fine old U.S. SF stories as back-ups -- but again, these were dated even then. Forrest Ackerman was the book series editor.
There's at least one Perry Rhodan movie available in English -- MISSION STARDUST -- that was enjoyable, in a cheesy kind of way.
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