tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post5308849621764028411..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: The Phantom Detective, September 1936James Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-90669961446258844692015-04-12T23:31:43.082-05:002015-04-12T23:31:43.082-05:00Don't recall this one but I read a bunch of Ph...Don't recall this one but I read a bunch of Phantom Detective reprints in the really cool Corinth editions when I was in Basic Training at Ft. Leonard Wood way back in the mid-1960s.Stephen Mertznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-92067603367214452482015-04-12T20:02:34.057-05:002015-04-12T20:02:34.057-05:00Tread carefully in the Ki-Gor jungle, James. If t...Tread carefully in the Ki-Gor jungle, James. If there's more uneven hero pulp series out there I sure haven't encountered it.<br /><br />The best ones have an outrageous lurid vigor while the worst seem written by authors who scorned both the story they were telling the the readers they were telling it to.<br /><br />In short, if you run into a weak Ki-Gor novel, don't give up. The good ones are well worth working your way around the bad.<br /><br />John Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-91884830342639396502015-04-12T13:26:59.836-05:002015-04-12T13:26:59.836-05:00John,
The Crimson Killer is one that I read, too, ...John,<br />The Crimson Killer is one that I read, too, and I remember liking it a lot. As for the Ki-Gor novels, I have the first two Altus Press reprint volumes but have only read the first story. I've got to get back to them. Too many things I want to read!James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-31509251451833100582015-04-12T11:42:44.643-05:002015-04-12T11:42:44.643-05:00Re: the cover: I see the knife, but what's wit...Re: the cover: I see the knife, but what's with the test tube?Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-19540793343305538322015-04-12T10:58:25.052-05:002015-04-12T10:58:25.052-05:00Yeah, I still have Hanos reprints, and have not ve...Yeah, I still have Hanos reprints, and have not ventured to read any of that fine print for many years.<br /><br />I read three of his Phantom Detective reprints, my favorite of which was 1934's The Crimson Killer. Some extreme pulp villainy going on there.<br /><br />Hanos also turned me on to Secret Agent X and, best of all, the Jungle Stories adventures of Ki-Gor.<br />I have 37 Ki-Gor reprints, and several of them I never got around to reading. I'm afraid that if I ever do I'll need a magnifying glass. A big one.<br /><br />John HockingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-32100501829723210942015-04-12T08:53:16.806-05:002015-04-12T08:53:16.806-05:00Yeah, I've still got some of those Hanos books...Yeah, I've still got some of those Hanos books I'm replacing with better reprints as they come out. They were great at the time because most of this stuff wasn't available anywhere. Hanos tried to trade me some pulps once, but when I got his, they were all trimmed down to digest size, just barely catching all the text. I sent them back to him.Tom Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05594257113339405939noreply@blogger.com