Created by Richard Reinsmith Pseudonyms include Richard Rein Smith, Damon Castle, Ann Taylor, Dan Elliott Journeyman writer Richard Reinsmith caught the Men’s Adventure wave with the eight-book Bodyguard series, published by bottom feeder paperback publisher Tower (and starting with book three, Leisure Books). Its hero/narrator was gray-haired RAY MARTIN, a highly regarded bodyguard working out … Continue reading Ray Martin (The Bodyguard)
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Morocco Jones
Created by Jack Baynes Pseudonym of Bertram B. Fowler (1893-1981) "Only suckers play straight in my game. Ethics is a word that means holes in your head— bullet holes. I'm one of those old-fashioned operatives. When someone takes out after me I don't bother to haul out my conscience and frisk it for motives. I … Continue reading Morocco Jones
Brian Petersen (aka “The D.C. Man”)
Created by James P. Cody Pseudonym of Peter T. Rohrbach (1926--) Another rescue from Lee Goldberg's Brash Books resurrects James P. Cody's quartet of gritty, action-packed Men's Adventure paperbacks from the mid-seventies, originally published by Berkley Medallion. BRIAN PETERSEN, tagged as "The D.C. MAN" on the covers, was a former football player and military intelligence … Continue reading Brian Petersen (aka “The D.C. Man”)
Tim Kyle (The Pulsar International)
Created by Robin Moore and Al Dempsey When we first meet him in this men's adventure series from the mid-seventies, TIM KYLE (married, with children) is the vice-president and chief operations officer for Pulsar International, and has been for years. Pulsar is an international detective agency that boasts an incredible arsenal of surveillance devices, high-tech … Continue reading Tim Kyle (The Pulsar International)
Private Eyes by the Number
P.I.s in Men's Adventure Books Ah, those Men's Adventure novels of the seventies and eighties! To an Anglo kid growing up in the early seventies in the woodsy Quebec boondocks where English-language books were few and far between, my family's bi-weekly grocery run to the Greenfield Park shopping centre always included popping into — … Continue reading Private Eyes by the Number
Ethan Reckless
Created by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips "I'm not a private eye. I'm just... someone who helps people sometimes." It's Los Angeles in the 1980s, and former sixties radical/undercover FBI agent turned surfer dude/troubleshooter (or is that troublemaker?) ETHAN RECKLESS is on the prowl, going down mean streets Chandler could never have imagined; streets teeming with … Continue reading Ethan Reckless
Julian “Digger” Burroughs/Devlin “Trace” Tracy/Daedulus Patrick Murphy
Created by Warren Murphy (1933-2015) "It's a bubble that's gonna break, it's Murphy's law..." --theme song lyrics, sung by Al Jarreau I'm sorry, but there's just no sense listing these guys separately. Warren Murphy wrote them all, and they're all basically the same guy, especially the first two, JULIAN "DIGGER" BURROUGHS and DEVLIN "TRACE" TRACY. … Continue reading Julian “Digger” Burroughs/Devlin “Trace” Tracy/Daedulus Patrick Murphy
My Scrapbook: “The Exploiters” Magazine Spread
My Scrapbook "The Exploiters" Magazine Spread Better late than never, I suppose. This is the spread from the February 1968 issue of Men's Only magazine, kicking off an excerpt from Richard Stark's 1962 novel The Hunter (aka Payback), published six years earlier. It was the first of long-running and critically acclaimed series of novels about … Continue reading My Scrapbook: “The Exploiters” Magazine Spread