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The Avenger: The Justice Inc. Files Paperback – September 20, 2011
by
Joe Gentile
(Editor),
Howard Hopkins
(Editor)
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Print length336 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherMoonstone
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Publication dateSeptember 20, 2011
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Reading age16 years and up
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Dimensions5.9 x 1 x 8.9 inches
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ISBN-101933076909
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ISBN-13978-1933076904
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- Publisher : Moonstone (September 20, 2011)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1933076909
- ISBN-13 : 978-1933076904
- Reading age : 16 years and up
- Item Weight : 13.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.9 x 1 x 8.9 inches
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Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2011
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Once again, the fine folks at Moonstone Books have chosen an excellent selection of stories for this latest anthology, the second featuring the Avenger, the pulp hero created by Paul Ernst (but published under the house name Kenneth Robeson, the same one used by Lester Dent and the other authors who wrote the Doc Savage stories), and his able companions, Justice Inc. All 15 stories are well worth reading and show different facets of Benson, a man driven by justice after great personal loss. The most impressive thing to me about these stories is how character-driven they are and how much they flesh out the Avenger, whose pre-heroic background was alluded to many times in the original stories. As with several of Moonstone's publications involving pre-existing properties, this collection has stories involving the Avenger encountering other pulp adventurers, with the most obvious examples being Win Scott Eckert's "Happy Death Men", a team-up with the Domino Lady, also containing several allusions to other pulp, novel, and comics characters (also, apropos of nothing, my favorite story in the book), and David Michelinie's "The Blood Moon", which has Benson teaming up with the Spider to face the most fearsome vampire of them all. Moonstone is one of the leading lights of the current wave of pulp revivals, and this excellent anthology is further proof of that, in the unlikely event anyone doubted that.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2017
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If you like pulps this is a lot of fun. Are the characters really developed...over time yeah, sort of. But the pleasure is not in the development of the characters but the fact that they are old friends who don't turn gray...er...in the Avenger's case grayer...weaken and die on us. they remain old constant friends.
a joy to come back to again and again.
a joy to come back to again and again.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2019
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All the stories stay true to the series written back in the late 30s and 40s, excellent short stories with different twists, I would say one of my favorites
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Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2019
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East, Wind, Rain is worth the price of admission itself. It's a fast moving, engaging, thoughtful short that holds you till the end.
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2016
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good plots, poor choice of words in some stories. these stories take place in the 1930s and the writers uses words and phrases they are familiar with instead of what is right for the time period, it's like john wayne in a rio bravo type western after a gunfight saying "that's some gnarly gun handling pilgrim". takes away from the noir of the 1930s avenger atmosphere the original stories created
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Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2015
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I really enjoyed reading this series of short stories by various authors. I did not feel that the characters were as well developed as in the originals that I read many years ago but the book still provided a few hours of entertainment that I truly enjoyed.
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2014
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I bought these books in the 70's because of their covers and then began to enjoy them as fantastic pulp fiction. This new collection honors and extends the legacy of Justice Inc.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2016
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just a bunch of short stories. Some good, most poor.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2013Verified Purchase
I've read a couple of the original Avenger novels but never somehow warmed to the character or his crew. However, these well crafted short stories have changed all that for me.
Cleverly plotted and economically scripted, they have taken me deep into the Avengers world and time. I'm glad that the original time zone has been kept throughout.
Thoroughly recommended.
Cleverly plotted and economically scripted, they have taken me deep into the Avengers world and time. I'm glad that the original time zone has been kept throughout.
Thoroughly recommended.
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