Description

A guide to superhero and related prose fiction, broken down into various types.

Adventure Section - For books that are men's adventure type series, which is mostly the Executioner and his spinoffs and the Destroyer, but some others do fit here and may be uncovered over time, and it doesn't mean no female characters.

Buffy Universe Section - Books about characters in the Buffyverse, generally Buffy and Angel. Books about the supporting characters will be put in either the Buffy or Angel subsection as appropriate.

DC Universe Section - Books about characters from the DC Universe.

Flying Aces Section - Pulp aviators and others that like to fly planes.

Eternal Champion Section - Books about Michael Moorcock's multiverse spanning Eternal Champion superhero. There are a few of his other books that are very tangentially related, too.

Ghost Busters Section - Books that are original creations and are about psychic/occult/supernatur al detectives and other such monster hunters. Dark fantasy/paranormal romance doesn't really fit here.

Judge Dredd 2000AD Section - Books about characters from 2000 AD.

Jungle Lords Section - Tarzan and other Kings and Queens of the Jungle, and Edgar Rice Burroughs other heroes. Note that the Lords is deliberate. Jungle Queens will be found in Pulp Heroines, now that there is such as section, given there are not so many of them.

Kids Section - Books of a reasonable length that are clearly aimed at children, that I happen to have come across. I won't be going out of my way to find lists of relevant young adult or kids series here, but if you know of any, I am happy to mention them.

Lone Riders - The Western style hero that wouldn't be much without a good horse. The Lone Ranger, Zorro, The Masked Rider, etc.

Marvel Universe Section - Books about characters from the Marvel Universe.

Modern Legends Section - Books about heroes from legend, with a modern twist or character and published in the relevant time period. No Morte D'Arthur, etc. This is not something I have investigated thoroughly, but I have put down what I have read that I can recall, and others have suggested. Examples are when modern people run into heroes from legend, that sort of thing.

Old Adventurers Section - For books that are closer in ethos to the 19th than the 20th century. For this reason, I have moved The Hampdenshire Wonder and Green Mansions from the Original Section to here. Ghost Busters from this era will be found in the Ghost Busters section, at the start of the section. For Sherlock Holmes, I have included a few pastiche books of the more fun Wold Newton type crossover styles, which are more likely to appeal to Super Readers, in general. Listening all of these is a huge task, so I have included some links that have quite a lot of these listed. If I read them, I will put them down, but this is basically a job in and of itself and more.

Original Heroes Section - Books that are original creations and are pretty obviously superhero in nature.

Other and Tie-In Section - Books from comics from publishers other than the big two, also based on movies, tv shows, radio, internet, or any media yet to be evented. Ghost of Albion came from web animation I believe, for example. Ghostbuster types here, 30 Days of Night, Bureau 13, Cal McDonald, The Crow, Ultraviolet, Underworld, Van Helsing, Witchblade.

Pulp Heroes Section - Books from the pulp era. The Shadow, Doc Savage, The Spider, The Avenger, and other heroes.

Pulp Heroines Section - Exactly as above, but a woman is the star.

Pulp Villains Section - Books from the pulp era where the bad guy was the star, Fu Manchu, Doctor Satan, etc.

Related Section - For books of interest such as Kavalier and Clay and that sort of book, and, just recently, a podcast, The Secret World Chronicle, that is audio, but likely to become a book.

Romance Section - For romance titles I happen to come across, or are suggested, with an appropriate theme, and