TOM SWIFT, JR. Damn, what red-blooded American boy didnt follow the exploits of Tom Swift and his pal Bud Barclay on their wonderful science-fiction adventures in those boomer years? I collected them ALL (along with those cool companion HARDY BOYS series books)! If it wasnt Toms bizarre invention titles that grabbed you, it was the awesome cover art that surely did. A kids first juvenile introduction to what was clearly yesterdays Pulp genre! I wanted to do a brief intro on series cover illustrator, J. Graham Kaye ... however, after a week of solid web-searches and emails to close sources ... there was not ONE bit of information to be found ... absolutely NOTHING regarding his life, works, or even his name mentioned! How sad. Anyway, you can at least enjoy my post featuring the covers (plus the original interior cover splash page) of the first 20 books from that series (posted in order). Tom Swift Jr. was the central character in a series of 33 science fiction adventure novels for male adolescents, following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift (Senior) novels. The series was entitled The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures (published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1954-1971). Unlike the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys titles that were also products of the prolific Stratemeyer Syndicate, the original Tom Swift stories were not rewritten in the 1950s to modernize them. It was decided that the protagonist of the new series would be the son of the earlier Tom Swift and his wife, Mary Nestor Swift; the original hero continued as a series regular, as did his pal Ned Newton. The covers were created by illustrator (J.) Graham Kaye. Covers from the later portion of the series were mostly by Charles Brey. A total of 33 volumes were eventually published
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:26:51 +0000
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