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Kenneth Robeson was the house name used by Street and Smith Publications as the author of their popular character Doc Savage and later The Avenger Though most Doc Savage stories were written by the author Lester Dent there were many others who contributed to the series including William G Bogart Evelyn Coulson Harold A Davis Lawrence Donovan Alan Hathway W Ryerson Johnson Lester Dent is usually considered to be the creator of Doc Savage In the 1990s Philip Jos Farmer wrote a new Doc Savage adventure but it was published under his own name and not by Robeson Will Murray has since taken up the pseudonym and continued writing Doc Savage books as Robeson All 24 of the original stories featuring The Avenger were written by Paul Ernst Kenneth Robeson was the house name used by Street and Smith Publications as the author of their popular character Doc Savage and later The Avenger Though most Doc Savage stories were written by the author Lester Dent there were many others who contributed to the series including William G Bogart Evelyn Coulson Harold A Davis Lawrence Donovan Alan Hathway W Ryerson Johnson Lester Dent is usually considered to be the creator of Doc Savage In the 1990s Philip Jos Farmer wrote a new Doc Savage adventure but it was published under his own name and not by Robeson Will Murray has since taken up the pseudonym and continued writing Doc Savage books as Robeson All 24 of the original stories featuring The Avenger were written by Paul Ernst using the Robeson house name In order to encourage sales Kenneth Robeson was credited on the cover of The Avenger magazine as the creator of Doc Savage even though Lester Dent had nothing to do with The Avenger series In the 1970s when the series was extended with 12 additional novels Ron Goulart was hired to become Robeson site_link Reading this as part of the double volume reprint by Sanctum of the first two Avenger pulp novels and it s a top notch origin story introducing Richard Benson soon to be known as The Avenger. Justice inc rpg I was reminded of the first Doc Savage The Man of Bronze by the time I reached the end as that first story begins with Doc s loss of his father and this one owes its genesis to the disappearance mid flight of Benson s wife and daughter on a trip from Buffalo to Montreal across Lake Ontario By the end of the pulp Benson and his fledgling crew of Mac and Smitty come face to face with unreasoning uncaring evil and I was able to understand the madness that can drive to take justice into their own hands. Kindle Justice, inc. meaning When I think of the early Doc Savage stories and how the Man of Bronze took lives in those tales avenging the deaths of those he held close I m amazed the restraint Benson displays He earns the name Man of Steel because only someone as strong as that forged metal could survive such a hellish trial. Book Justice, inc. stock Justice Inc is character driven pulp laying a solid foundation for the characters writer Paul Ernst introduces under the Kenneth Robeson byline a foundation that makes me look forward to seeing how well Ernst sets Benson Mac and Smitty onto the trail of The Yellow Hoard the second tale in their Sanctum Books debut Paperback Review to follow Paperback This first novel in the Avenger series tells the origin story of Richard Benson a man who prior to the events of this book had earned his fortune by being a professional adventurer i. Book Justice, inc. vs e discovering rubber in South America leading native armies in Java making aerial maps in the Congo mining amethysts in Australia and emeralds in Brazil etc But at the beginning of this novel just when Benson is planning on settling down his ideal life is brutally shaken when his wife and young daughter are killed inexplicably disappearing from an airplane on which he himself is also a passenger. Justice, inc.tax The sheer shock and stress of that experience lands Benson in a hospital and changes him forever His face becomes paralyzed while both his skin and hair have turned white his facial flesh becoming malleable like clay His quest to chase down the crime ring behind his tragic loss forms the basis for this novel During the story he also recruits the first two members of what will become Justice Inc Fergus Mac MacMurdie and Algernon Heathcote Smitty Smith While these books bear the author house name of Kenneth Robeson this book along with most of the original Avenger stories was written by Paul Ernst It was originally published in the September 1939 edition of the pulp magazine The Avenger published by Street Smith Reportedly this series of pulp novels grew out of a wave of magazine cancellations in the late 1930s and recognition that a new hero was needed a hero that combined the styles and features of previous best sellers Doc Savage and The Shadow. Book Justice, inc.'s For me while I did enjoy the story it felt a little disjointed I ve read a lot of Doc Savage and did notice many similarities including Benson s aversion to outright killing the bad guys It is also evident that he is building a team of aides and that he enjoys using gadgets in his work Of course Benson is a physical hero with incredible strength and intelligence The plastic malleable state of his facial features is pretty bizarre I must say It allows him to reshape his facial features into a likeness of any person his features remaining in sculpted form until they are carefully put back into place It s a cool ability I suppose but weird Something I would expect in the comics from a bad guy but I suppose the pulps of this era weren t much different I need to remember that those kinds of comics had just gotten started with Superman having just debuted in Action Comics 1 cover dated June 1938 so all those weird bad guy characters were still to come. Book Justice, inc. 5000 All in all I m glad I finally got around to this series and this character He s been on my list a long time and I somehow managed to acquire the complete set of paperback books from Popular Library so I ll be reading Looking forward to seeing how he progresses and especially to meet the new members of his team as they are introduced Paperback I wanted to read some of the popular pulp heroes series and after Doc Savage and The Spider I now read The Avenger I really really like the first part of the story where Richard Benson wife and daughter disappeared from a plane The total mystery and utter tension of the situation was very well written and convey to the reader Afterward the story resolves around the investigation to find what happen and we are into a financial scam then some evil super villain That was a bit of a let down but otherwise the story is good and well paced Hopefully the series will evolve into of the over the top action villains territories But this first book had enough to make me read the next entry Paperback In this case Kenneth Robeson s secret identity is Paul Ernst and not Lester Dent as the Warner paperback edition implies which is really all for the good Street Smith whipped up The Avenger as a cross between The Shadow and Doc Savage and you get that very much from reading it As expected The Shadow influence supplies good plotting and villain antics and the Doc Savage influence results in cartoonish heroes with exaggerated strengths Our hero is Richard Benson who winds up with the ability to mold his face like silly putty to resemble anyone this being because his facial muscles are dead and he can t naturally smile or emote in any other way He s gone prematurely gray and has a creepy stare All of this is the result of a terrible tragedy that lands him in a Canadian nuthouse Justice Inc has a nicely done opening where Benson with wife and child in tow forces his way onto a small passenger plane needing to reach Montreal in a hurry The plane takes off he goes to the bathroom when he comes out his wife and child aren t there and everyone tells him they didn t board the plane with him He raves he s subdued he s told he s crazy and later he investigates only to be told he never had a wife and child It s the Hitchcock The Lady Vanishes setup weakly recycled for films like Flightplan and it s always a good one The rest of the book doesn t quite live up to the opener though Benson is distinct from many other pulp heroes in not being huge or brawny he s 5 8 and 160 lbs but naturally he s clever his still strong and he s independently wealthy His emotionlessness is meant to add to his intensity and he s referred to as a gray fox or a steel machine Naturally since this means to ride the Doc Savage coat tails he has sidekicks MacMurdie a large Scotsman with comically large extremities and Smitty a huge guy who looks dumb but isn t Both have suffered at the hands of criminals too so they re perfect to join Benson s crime fighting team This first adventure is the mystery that involves the disappearance of our hero s wife and child a plot that has goons throwing stockholders in a major company out of an airplane over Lake Ontario There s an island hideout some goons who would shoot each other for guessing at the boss s identity abductions face squishing disguises postcards as clues sinister business men knocking guys out by grazing them with real bullets one twist and pretty standard deception of the reader While some pulp heroes take on evil with two automatics in hard or chuck bad guys out of windows Benson The Avenger doesn t kill people although he s not averse to tricking villains into killing one another Street Smith had both Walter B Gibson and Lester Dent advise Ernst on the creation of this series and like I said above it might have worked better had Dent stayed home that day I ve got of these on the shelf so I imagine I will return to the series although Secret Agent X The Black Bat The Phantom Detective Captain Satan and of course The Spider are ahead of it in line for now Paperback
| Justice, Inc. (The Avenger #1) By Kenneth Robeson |
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| 9780446648622 |
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I was pretty disappointed in this one For a pulp story it was pretty slow and frankly boring Can t win them all Paperback After reading about half of the book I decided live is to short to waste it on poor books This book is pure drivel even by the standards of the genre and it s time of publication While I enjoy pulp fiction especially the doc savage novels this story gad absolutely no redeeming aspects for me This might be the greatest series of all but after having wasted a few hours on this I will apparently never find out Paperback A rip roaring pulp thriller of the kind I love to read This one wastes no time in getting straight into the heart of the action with a classic mystery set up involving passengers disappearing in flight From there we re introduced to the main character a pulp hero with the uncanny ability to twist his features into those of other people His skills are somewhat outlandish straining credibility at times but no so than Batman or any of the other super heroes lining fiction and film The story is brief the action dominates and the characters are larger than life I couldn t put this one down and devoured it in two or three sittings eager to read from this Avenger Paperback Not great but very entertaining Paperback Read in the 70s Pulp adventure in the Doc Savage vein Paperback.