... IIRC, most lovely assistants were always flirting with the brilliant scientists. The scientists always seemed oblivious to her. Then some great disaster...
... If I recall correctly, it was Laurence Peter who once wrote how creating life in the laboratory isn't difficult at all . . . if the laboratory assistant...
Please comment on the below title. Time Bomb A Hardy Boys and Tom Swift Ultra Thriller Produced by Byron-Preiss Visual Publications Inc. Publisher Archway...
... I haven't read these team-ups. They do sound intriguing and rather sophisticated, though. I've read some opinions that the two team-ups are actually the...
I have read them both, and the Tom Swift in the two combo books is definitely TSIV. Both of the books could have been sold as new TSIV books and they would...
... Electronic Hydrolung? Asteroid Pirates? Caves of Nuclear Fire? Phantom Satellite? Race to the Moon? Visitor From Planet X? Mystery Planet? Captive...
I had almost no time to look at used book stores while I was in Winnipeg for the last 2 days. Put it was whirlwind trip there and back. But I did get to a...
I've read farther into the book and I have entered into a Hardy Boys area where it turns out that Fenton Hardy has been asked by Professor Drake, a university...
... Now that I've opined that TSJ and TS-IV are surprisingly similar, I'll note a difference for comment-- TS-IV is much more plugged in to its moment in...
This guy has it...http://moviesvideoman.bravehost.com/index.htmlWhile I don't usually advertise for a bootlegger, this seems to be an actual rarity of a...
... No alternative, except you of course. After all the standard way of beating down bootleggers is to make the bootlegs freely available. I know musicians...
Tom might suspect that Frank and Joe Hardy were going to move in on Bud and Tom's territory. ________________________________ From: Tom-Swift@yahoogroups.com...
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Hi this is Andre' Yahoo cut off my yahoo address!Had to get this one. a question, Did Tom Swift Sr or Jr ever mention say EDISON or BELL or The Wrighty...
We don't talk too much about the Swift illustrators, but "adventure" illustration is an interest of mine. I've Googled Ed Moritz, who did the interior illos on...
Thanks for the post! Nice work. The cover art an illustrations did a lot to increase my enjoyment of the books - there's just something about good interior...
Even with the Hardy Boys series the interiror artwork was dropped after #83 "The Swamp Monster". I guess Simon & Schuster just figured that it would've been...
You have a good point. Still, young people these days probably have more exposure to visual media than any other generation there's ever been. In fact, visual...
Unlike the Hardy Boys, which have had series directed towards different age groups, the Tom Swift books have been more or less geared towards the same age...
One thing to consider regarding the "why no interior illos" question is purely technical: the cheap paper they like to use in the various PB versions doesn't...
"...even the TSJ books were a bit crude compared to the Dig Allen series (late 1950's), which had some very nice interior touches. ..." Jon, would it be...