Y/A CORNER: CHRISTOPHER COOL!THANKS TO MISTER 8 FOR THE TIP ON THIS POST OVER AT THE COMIC BOOK RESOURCES BLOG ON OLDER Y/A MYSTERY SERIES INCLUDING ONE OF MY FAVORITES, CHRISTOPHER COOL T.E.E.N. AGENT . . .
Full disclosure: this isn't really about comics. But it brushes up against them, and also animated cartoons, in a couple of places.
I've mentioned this a time or two here before, but in addition to comics and pulp fiction, I'm also very fond of what used to be called "young adult" series adventure novels.
These three series, in particular, I was a big fan of when I was eleven or twelve... and I still dig the Three Investigators, even today.
Today they've largely disappeared from the bookstores, though revamped versions of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew are hanging in there. (And there's an argument to be made that perhaps the Harry Potter or Twilight series of books are the newest incarnation of the genre.)
But the ones I'm talking about had a very specific look and format. They were hardcovers, seven inches tall by five-and-a-half inches wide, no dust jacket, roughly two hundred and forty pages or so... and always with a pulpy cover illustration that promised excitement with a touch of weirdness.
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