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With so many Nancy Drew rivals being published the Hardy Boys had faced little competition in the 'boy detective' stakes. But that was to change in 1964 with the publication of Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators.
Julie Campbell Tatham also wrote the short-lived Ginny Gordon detective series (1948-56), although her adventures were possibly less dramatic than those of Trixie Belden!
Trixie Belden was one of the youngest of the teen-age detectives. Aged 13 she and her friend Honey Wheeler were presidents of the Bob-Whites of the Glen, and ace sleuths.
The Hell Surfers. For Men Only, July 1967. Art by Mort Kunstler.
Here are two digital artworks by Charles Csuri: almost half a century seperates them. How did we get from one to the other, and what happened along the way?
This is the story of early digital art...
Gamebooks had international appeal and were written in (or translates into) many languages. Joe Denver's Lone Wolf series became Loup Solitaire in France - and was hugely successful.
There are many types of gamebook: some are straightforward branching narratives, others ask you to construct a character and use dice to calculate the outcome of combat choices. But they are all (usually) solo adventures - no Dungeon Master is required.
But if sci-fi is a meditation on 'the status of man in the universe' then a lot of hard sci-fi and some science fantasy would fail the test. Aldiss is from the New Wave of 1960s sci-fi which was somewhat esoteric as well as experimental.
St. George and the Dragon, by Margaret Hodgen. Caldecott Medal, 1985. Illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman.