Actually, the first Destroyer was written in the early '60s
and languished unpublished for many years. It was
conventional action/adventure stuff spiced with martial arts.
Sapir & Murphy took advantage of the '70s action series
boom to sell the yellowing manuscript. They followed up with
another conventional windpip crusher. Realizing that they
were probably heading to oblivion, they changed course with
#3, intorducing the satire and all the wacky elements that
made the Destroyer the thinking man's action series.
The rest is history.
--Scott
>I agree with Scott about The Destroyer, a dandy
series for the most part.
> But the first book is different. It's pretty much
standard fare for the
>genre. The rest are different.
>
>And did anyone see the Sopranos episode the other
night where someone said,
>"It's a real Matt Helm plot"? A nice
homage.
>
>Bill Crider
>--
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