12/30/2020
From comic book writer to paperback writer, Mr. Gardner F (Francis Cooper) Fox started writing for DC comics in 1937, then in 1944 starts to get published in the popular pulp magazines, and then by 1953 makes his debut in the emerging paperback market.
This Library would be best described as a Men's Adventure Library. That might sound a bit exclusive but we are looking to attract those who have grown up with these types of books that were printed from the 1950s through the 1970s. There were until recently books only written for either men or women. The vintage paperback industry published their stories based on the popularity of genre-themes.
The basic structure of a men's adventure is that it needs to be centered around a man and his exploits. In other words; man battles against adversity and the baddies to win the treasure and the heart of the damsel. Mr. Fox wrote for many of the popular genre-themes of his day. Within each category, The Library has added the entire scanned copies of the original vintage paperbacks. We are doing this to keep Mr. Fox's works alive, as well as introduce his stories to new readers.
The Library will be looking to complete the task of transcribing all of his vintage paperbacks this year (2021). So far we have transcribed the majority of his novels and a MOBI eBook and New Edition rePrint versions are also available for purchasing.
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There are 156 books in total that Mr. Fox wrote and we hope you find at least one that will take you on an enjoyable and rememberable adventure.
These are the genres that Mr. Fox wrote for. Within each genre category, the Library is adding the entire scanned copies of the original vintage paperbacks.
2 books – an eclectic category for a few books that seem to be in the same attitude as a classic adventure.
40 books – ranging from his first published paperback, the Borgia Blade, to the many exploits of those eras such as biblical times and the American Revolution.
28 books – a popular woman's genre-theme that Mr. Fox lends his “The Adventures in Love” take to.
8 books – it would be easy to think that their were more than just these few paperbacks since Mr. Fox wrote so much of the Golden and Silver Age of Comic Books.
7 books – these books range from James Bond knock-offs to cowboys roaming the wild west.
29 books – one of the two sexy femme fatale series Mr. Fox wrote for the 1970s sexpliotation market.
25 books – the other female James Bond series Mr. Fox wrote for the vintage sleaze market.
6 books – haunted love stories with all of its romantic spookiness.
11 books – classic heroic adventures that helped inspire the birth of Gary Gygax's fantasy tabletop role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons.
New Section – books that influenced Mr. Fox or were influenced by Mr. Fox's characters and/or stories.
We hope you become a Fox Fan. His vintage men's adventures are like reading comic books without the pictures.
If you are of the generation that read these types of books when they were being published, we would love to hear about the first time you were introduced to the vintage paperback world. Please feel free to contact us and share your story with us.
