RARA-AVIS: numbered adventure series

Jiro Kimura (jkimura@nsknet.or.jp)
Sat, 20 Feb 1999 14:24:59 +0900 >Okay, scholars, here's a question:
>
>What was the first PBO series (featuring a "men's adventure" character) that
>was devised as a series, and when did it start? Was it Prather's Shell
>Scott?
>- -- Duane

As far as I can remember, The Executioner series by Don Pendleton may be
the first numbered adventure/action pbo series, designed to be a series;
hence, the numbers such as The Executioner #1. But I may be wrong.

Jiro Kimura, non-scholar

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