There's an old adage that the golden age of anything is 12, meaning
basically whatever is out at the time that you hit awareness of it is going
to seem like the high point of it. I love the 70's DCs (Superman, Batman,
etc) more than any other era because I was a kid in the early 70s.
With that, I wonder if I would love the Doc Savage books as much now if I
hadn't discovered them at just the right age for them to strike a chord with
me, and at the same I wonder if I had read the Avenger books when I was 7
(which is roughly when I stumbled across the Bantam Lost Oasis in the messy
chaos at the bottom of my cousin's closet) if I would have fallen for them
too.
On a slightly related note, we've just moved into a new, much bigger house,
and with that comes a new, much bigger library for me, actually separate
from the house in what was meant to be guest quarters. It's roughly double
the size of the old one and I'm in the process right now of mounting
bookcases on the walls. Next, I'll run bookcases back to back in parallels
down the middle, which should actually triple the amount of books I can fit
in there. Soon, I'll have the joy of opening the hundreds of boxes that I
packed away a few months ago and putting them all back up on the shelves. I
feel like a kid at Christmas time!
The Avenger Chronicles is a fair book. As in most anthologies is ranges
from great to poor. It mostly stays true to the characters but is a bit
more brooding than the originals.
Chuck
I'm looking forward to reading them!