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Posted: 10/3/2012 8:20:05 PM EDT

I used to ride my bike ~ 5 miles to town to buy them

I'm such a looser

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:20:45 PM EDT

[#1]

"a trio of 9mm death messengers screaming toward his chest"

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:21:15 PM EDT

[#2]

I think half this site did. I did.

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:21:43 PM EDT

[#3]

i did

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:23:26 PM EDT

[#4]

Still have them in a box somewhere. Would like to find them on a disk.

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:24:11 PM EDT

[#5]

I WAS Mac Bolan!

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:24:30 PM EDT

[#6]

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:24:39 PM EDT

[#7]

Yeah but didja read the Richard Camellion books? Or Remo Williams?

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:24:48 PM EDT

[#8]

stryker

hal brognola

.44 auto mag

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:25:21 PM EDT

[#9]

I still pick up a Mac Bolen book or a Destroyer once in a while....

but I read many hours each day...

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:26:30 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Yeah but didja read the Richard Camellion books? Or Remo Williams?

Never really did get into either, Did like some of the Mac Bolan spinoffs. (The one with the character that carried a full auto shotgun was a favorite)

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:27:39 PM EDT

[#11]

I loved reading both Mack Bolan and Matt Helm books when I was a kid. Many happy hours reading about the bad guys sent to their just deserts.

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:28:42 PM EDT

[#12]

75-100 of them!

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:30:07 PM EDT

[#13]

Hell yeah. I still have some of them in a box somewhere.

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:31:55 PM EDT

[#14]

who would win in a fight -

able team vs phoenix force

mack bolan vs chuck norris

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:37:25 PM EDT

[#15]

I read a shitton of Mac Bolan and Matt Helm books. Even as a private in the Army. They were fun. I always remember the Beretta 93R with the 3 round burst.

Matt Helm carried a Browning Hi Power and sometimes a .38 snub in an ankle rig.

I miss those books but quit buying them as I was going broke trying to keep up.

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:43:07 PM EDT

[#16]

The Executioner actually provided a bonding opportunity with my Dad.

He once caught me reading Stony Man Doctrine way after bedtime and confiscated it.
When he looked at the book and realized it was Mack Bolan, he went and dug out his old Navy footlocker and brought out his collection of Mafia War books.
Didn't get much sleep at all that night.

I ended up being more of a The Guardians fan, though.

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:43:31 PM EDT

[#17]

All of them in the early to mid 80's. Great books to shape a young mind with. :)

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Posted: 10/3/2012 8:44:39 PM EDT

[#18]

Did an oral book report on one back in high school.

Format was always the same.

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:45:48 PM EDT

[#19]

I read some of the Deathlands books.

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:48:29 PM EDT

[#20]

While in the Marines and stationed in Okinawa (1980) I managed to collect like #1-#25 or so. Bought a few more after I returned to the states but Don Pendleton started to really get way out there in his latter books, and I believe a ghost writer took over so I never bought another.

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:52:52 PM EDT

[#21]

Oh, Hell yeah! Even after I enlisted, I kept reading them.

Posted: 10/3/2012 8:56:06 PM EDT

[#22]

How about the Out Of The Ashes series?

Posted: 10/3/2012 9:11:56 PM EDT

[#23]

His torso exploded in a hail of 5.56mm

Yeah I read um LOL

Posted: 10/3/2012 9:17:15 PM EDT

[#24]

When I was a kid.. It was "Doc Savage"

Posted: 10/3/2012 9:23:08 PM EDT

[#25]

Still read them.

Posted: 10/3/2012 9:25:09 PM EDT

[#26]

Who was the guy who carried the dual Detonics .45s? That wasn't Mack Bolan was it?

Posted: 10/3/2012 9:29:43 PM EDT

[#27]

Yes.....bought them a the
stars &stripes

Posted: 10/3/2012 9:36:25 PM EDT

[#28]

Mack Bolan, Phoenix Force and Able Team. I even wrote my book reports in elementary school about them. That was a fun parent/teacher conference.

Posted: 10/3/2012 9:38:25 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
I read some of the Deathlands books.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Pilgrimage_to_Hell.jpg

That series has a new writer, it is actually getting worth reading again. They are even starting to use real tactics like cover fire and flanking. Ryan's P-226 still has a safety on it though.

Posted: 10/3/2012 9:41:35 PM EDT

[#30]

Mack Bolan rules!

Posted: 10/3/2012 9:44:47 PM EDT

[#31]

I think Mack Bolan got a lot of book reports done.

Posted: 10/3/2012 9:47:40 PM EDT

[#32]

Yes. Boston Massacre was my favorite. "Tell them I'm here. Tell

them somebody knows why."

Posted: 10/3/2012 10:41:46 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Who was the guy who carried the dual Detonics .45s? That wasn't Mack Bolan was it?

IIRC, The Death Merchant (Richard Camellion) liked to dual wield a matched set of pistols...Berretta 93's AMT Hardballers etc.

Posted: 10/3/2012 10:47:21 PM EDT

[#34]

still do

Posted: 10/3/2012 10:47:40 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Who was the guy who carried the dual Detonics .45s? That wasn't Mack Bolan was it?

Ahern's Deathlands character loved the shit out of Detonics.

I read a few Bolan books, but really was more of a Phoenix Force sort of guy. Honestly, Yakov Katz is the only reason I haven't got rid of my SIG P225.

Posted: 10/3/2012 11:17:50 PM EDT

[#36]

I do believe that Jerry Aherns series the "Survivalist" is the one that carried the twin Detonics.

Posted: 10/3/2012 11:35:09 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:

I do believe that Jerry Aherns series the "Survivalist" is the one that carried the twin Detonics.

That's right, of course. I never read more than 1 or 2 of those and I easily get them confused with other series.

On another note, I see Ahern died a few months back.

Posted: 10/3/2012 11:39:30 PM EDT

[#38]

I never heard of Mac Bolan until I started seeing them being read by the elderly black woman manager of a neighborhood gas station. She was always reading one when I came in. One day I asked her what that was and she showed me the cover of the current one.

" He a baaaaad motherfucker!"

Posted: 10/4/2012 4:19:21 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

Who was the guy who carried the dual Detonics .45s? That wasn't Mack Bolan was it?

Mack "the bastard" Bolan carried a Beretta Brigadier named "Belle" and an AMP .44 Automag named "Big Thunder". I liked the original mafia war books, as they were written by Don Pendleton. Later books were written by a ghost writing team.

Posted: 10/4/2012 4:23:28 AM EDT

[#40]

Didn't he like using a .458 Win Mag as a sniper rifle?

Posted: 10/4/2012 4:32:16 AM EDT

[#41]

One or two, I think one.....where he was flying overseas in a charter jet and he blew the stewardess out through a window/ Where he dropped a mortar and the head of a mercenary and the bloke disappeared? Maybe two books, I recall one where they turned a girlfriend of us into turkey meat by skinning her alive? Was that him?

Two, maybe three Destroyer books; Slave Safari, one where CURE's boss is kidnapped, and one where how and why President Ford came to power.

One Death Merchant book where they were invading an Arctic KGB torture camp.

And, by the by, just for interest sake in a same but different vein, I also read one Amanda book

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("Tell me, do you know of the house with the rose garden?"––Remo making polite idle conversation
Of course, an American agent, here to solve the mystery of the girls,––fiend in on the plot, (w,stte), Book: The Destroyer, "Slave Safari")

Posted: 10/4/2012 4:32:18 AM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
Didn't he like using a .458 Win Mag as a sniper rifle?

IIRC, it was a .460 Weatherby.

Posted: 10/4/2012 4:32:29 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
Didn't he like using a .458 Win Mag as a sniper rifle?

Bolan has used different rifles for sniping. In the first book, he used a lever action Marlin .444. Later he used a .460 Weatherby Magnum.

Posted: 10/4/2012 4:37:21 AM EDT

[#44]

I still want an auto-mag...

Read the guardians too.

I still want an armored car...

Posted: 10/4/2012 4:38:35 AM EDT

[#45]

I always wondered about the 240-grain boat-tailed hollowpoints he loaded in his Desert Eagle.

Posted: 10/4/2012 4:40:00 AM EDT

[#46]

Back in the day? heck, I still do

Executioner kicks some ass

other notable mentions:

Survivalist series by Jerry Ahern (who sadly just passed away)

Doomsday Warrior by Ryder Stacy

Deathlands by James Axler

Posted: 10/4/2012 4:45:30 AM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:
Yeah but didja read the Richard Camellion books? Or Remo Williams?

I read Mac Bolan.

I didnt know until just recently that Remo Williams came from a book series., I thought it was just an AWESOME 80s movie. FWIW the movie has stood the test of time. I watched it with my boys a few weeks ago. They loved it and I enjoyed the hell out of it too. I need to hit up the local used book store and pick up the collection.