My uncle LOVED these books. Mack Bolan and his Bible were the only books he talked to me about when I was a 12/13. Memories…just started reading no.1 at age 40 and it’s actually good!!
As a teenager in the mid 80's I bought and read Bolan, Able Team and Phoenix Force. I kept all of them until about 20 years ago, wish I had not gotten rid of them now, oh well. I would save up my allowance/job money and buy all the new ones in the book store each month. Many years later I was a little surprised that my parents let me read them, but I was reading something.
I was going through a period where I was reading nothing but westerns. But, I did intend to expand my variety of genres. One of the genres I was leaning towards was that of Men's Adventure, but I wasn't sure where to start. I certainly had seen plenty of Mack Bolan books around, but never the first one. Well, one day, I was in a location of a chain of local Colorado based thrift stores, and I found a copy of War Against the Mafia. I figured I was already interested in the series, so I better just grab this one now, because I am pretty sure that I'll read it eventually. So, I paid the whopping 99 cents to get this tome, and brought it home. So, later that night, I finished reading the western I was reading at the time, and I'm not ready to go to sleep yet. So, I cracked open War Against the Mafia, and I'm hooked pretty quickly. I end up staying awake until the early morning hours and I read the whole dang thing in one sitting. Well, from that point on, I was completely in. I was a fan and I bought these books whenever I would find them.
Great story Jay! I too have found them very moorish and tough to put down once started! Although I'm only a few books in, I'm really enjoying them so far🙂👍
I bought my first Executioner paperback off the rack in 1979... "Thermal Thursday". Read it right away, rushed back to find #37, "Friday's Feast". Filled in the older volumes in years to come, devouring them through all my teenage years, I lasted for a few of the Gold Eagle years, probably until '87 or '88. Sold everything to raise money for college... started reading them again about five years ago, out of nostalgia. How I wish I could have hung on to them, it's so much more expensive now to track them down than when I would be able to buy them at used bookstores for two-for-a-dollar..! Thanks for a fun video, brings back so many pleasant memories. Cheers from Canada
Thanks Charles. Great memories, it must have been cool reading these back in the day. I've really enjoyed the ones I've read this year and will try and complete the first 38 volumes.👍
Excellent overview. It sounds like the kind of series I'd like to have, but I'd need an extra house to keep them in! I thought my crate of 50-odd Saint books (plus various different editions of some of them) was pushing it...
I recently repurchased the post-Pendleton Bolans from 39 to 70. That was when I read them as a young teenager in the mid 1980s. My personal favorites are Stony Man Doctrine, Day of Mourning/Dead Man Running/Terminal Velocity, as well as The New War and some of those early New Eagle editions. Gil Cohen's art has always been my main attraction to the series, and I feel his peak was numbers 39-75 or so.
Although I've not read those you're absolutely right, the Gil Cohan artwork is superb and worth owning the books just for that. It's good to hear that the post Pendleton works are decent reads. I thought they were tbh, else the series wouldn't have gone on so long. Thanks my friend 🙂
ive got over 500 of the Executioner, Pheonix Force, Able Team, and Stony Man books. My grandmother actually used to get them monthly and i read them as a teenager. When she passed she left them all to me. Amazing books
@Jules Burt actually just got them on a bookshelf yesterday, double stacked and 2 deep lol. They aren't in the best condition, they have been well read
Between the main series and the spinoffs there’s almost 1000 books and my great grandfather got me into these books when I was 14 and I didn’t read much but now I Read and collect everyday
@@JulesBurt yes sir I am 28 and i am always finding something new to read with this series and I’ve got the better part of 300 books of the series it’s Addictive for sure
i read these (and the Destroyer series) as a teenager in the 80's, a number of years back i started collecting the initial 38 book "War against the Mafia" run. It took me 2 years to get them all. i included book 39 "A New War" as i felt it capped off the initial run. Lots of scouring Evilbay ro get them all. i do have most of the Bolanverse and almost all of the Destroyer books in ebook format. I am currently re-reading the Mafia run in ebook format.
Wondering if we could get an update on the DW Target books, and if we could be expecting their next video sometime soon? Also wondering whether you collect the other DW Target titles (i.e. DW Discovers, Terry Nation's Dalek Special, etc.)?
Hi Jack, yes, the Target books will be filmed again very soon, including the other spin-offs, Dalek and K-9 specials for example. The next Dr Who book video is on the Eighth Doctor series.
Mack Bolan is my favorite book series. I love the “action movie in a book” style.
A great way to describe the series! I've read several now, they're great fun.👍
I managed to bag myself about 20 of these and they all proved to be good reads.
Excellent, I'm enjoying going through them at present, great fun!🙂👍
My uncle LOVED these books. Mack Bolan and his Bible were the only books he talked to me about when I was a 12/13. Memories…just started reading no.1 at age 40 and it’s actually good!!
Great stuff, I too read number one fairly recently. It's actually pretty excellent 👍
As a teenager in the mid 80's I bought and read Bolan, Able Team and Phoenix Force. I kept all of them until about 20 years ago, wish I had not gotten rid of them now, oh well. I would save up my allowance/job money and buy all the new ones in the book store each month. Many years later I was a little surprised that my parents let me read them, but I was reading something.
Thankfully, these are too difficult to find on eBay these days. Still great reads!
I was going through a period where I was reading nothing but westerns. But, I did intend to expand my variety of genres. One of the genres I was leaning towards was that of Men's Adventure, but I wasn't sure where to start.
I certainly had seen plenty of Mack Bolan books around, but never the first one. Well, one day, I was in a location of a chain of local Colorado based thrift stores, and I found a copy of War Against the Mafia. I figured I was already interested in the series, so I better just grab this one now, because I am pretty sure that I'll read it eventually. So, I paid the whopping 99 cents to get this tome, and brought it home.
So, later that night, I finished reading the western I was reading at the time, and I'm not ready to go to sleep yet. So, I cracked open War Against the Mafia, and I'm hooked pretty quickly. I end up staying awake until the early morning hours and I read the whole dang thing in one sitting.
Well, from that point on, I was completely in. I was a fan and I bought these books whenever I would find them.
Great story Jay! I too have found them very moorish and tough to put down once started! Although I'm only a few books in, I'm really enjoying them so far🙂👍
I bought my first Executioner paperback off the rack in 1979... "Thermal Thursday". Read it right away, rushed back to find #37, "Friday's Feast". Filled in the older volumes in years to come, devouring them through all my teenage years, I lasted for a few of the Gold Eagle years, probably until '87 or '88. Sold everything to raise money for college... started reading them again about five years ago, out of nostalgia. How I wish I could have hung on to them, it's so much more expensive now to track them down than when I would be able to buy them at used bookstores for two-for-a-dollar..! Thanks for a fun video, brings back so many pleasant memories. Cheers from Canada
Thanks Charles. Great memories, it must have been cool reading these back in the day. I've really enjoyed the ones I've read this year and will try and complete the first 38 volumes.👍
Excellent overview. It sounds like the kind of series I'd like to have, but I'd need an extra house to keep them in! I thought my crate of 50-odd Saint books (plus various different editions of some of them) was pushing it...
Cheers Frank, maybe just limit to the first few, see if you like them! I don't think I would dream of trying to get them all, just too many🙂👍
A book series start at 1969 and end in 2020 holy shit
An impressive run without doubt.👍
I recently repurchased the post-Pendleton Bolans from 39 to 70. That was when I read them as a young teenager in the mid 1980s. My personal favorites are Stony Man Doctrine, Day of Mourning/Dead Man Running/Terminal Velocity, as well as The New War and some of those early New Eagle editions. Gil Cohen's art has always been my main attraction to the series, and I feel his peak was numbers 39-75 or so.
Although I've not read those you're absolutely right, the Gil Cohan artwork is superb and worth owning the books just for that. It's good to hear that the post Pendleton works are decent reads. I thought they were tbh, else the series wouldn't have gone on so long. Thanks my friend 🙂
I see tons of these books at libraries and book sales. Old school storytelling at it's fines
Yep, well worth picking up these days👍
I have and read 1-20. A great series.
Excellent stuff Mark, what a series this is!
@@JulesBurt I have read all 20 more than few times over the years
That's cool, I'm the same with the Casca books tbh😔
#29 Command Strike was my introduction (I was 12)!
Incredible information! A place in history🙂👍
ive got over 500 of the Executioner, Pheonix Force, Able Team, and Stony Man books. My grandmother actually used to get them monthly and i read them as a teenager. When she passed she left them all to me. Amazing books
500, that's amazing, but what a series these are. The ones I've read have been so enjoyable. How are you storing them? Are they all on display?
@Jules Burt actually just got them on a bookshelf yesterday, double stacked and 2 deep lol. They aren't in the best condition, they have been well read
I joined the navy in 1983 and had every book until then, unfortunately I lent them to a navy recruiter, and never got them back.
What a nightmare. Thankfully, these do still turn up regularly on eBay.👍
Between the main series and the spinoffs there’s almost 1000 books and my great grandfather got me into these books when I was 14 and I didn’t read much but now I Read and collect everyday
1000, that's incredible. The handful I've read are great fun so far. I can see how they'd become addictive.👍🙂
@@JulesBurt yes sir I am 28 and i am always finding something new to read with this series and I’ve got the better part of 300 books of the series it’s Addictive for sure
Excellent! Even 300 is loads. Great series 👍
Great . Thanks for the show and tell . PS for a less grounded and more pulpy adventure check out the Distroyer .
Thanks Sylvan, I'll keep a lookout for some Destroyer book 👍🙂👁️👁️
i read these (and the Destroyer series) as a teenager in the 80's, a number of years back i started collecting the initial 38 book "War against the Mafia" run. It took me 2 years to get them all. i included book 39 "A New War" as i felt it capped off the initial run. Lots of scouring Evilbay ro get them all. i do have most of the Bolanverse and almost all of the Destroyer books in ebook format. I am currently re-reading the Mafia run in ebook format.
It's a great series. Not read all the first 38 but very much enjoyed the ones I have finished 👍
Wondering if we could get an update on the DW Target books, and if we could be expecting their next video sometime soon? Also wondering whether you collect the other DW Target titles (i.e. DW Discovers, Terry Nation's Dalek Special, etc.)?
Hi Jack, yes, the Target books will be filmed again very soon, including the other spin-offs, Dalek and K-9 specials for example. The next Dr Who book video is on the Eighth Doctor series.