Secret Mission Istanbul looks both intriguing and tacky, but that's a great 70s photo cover. So too It Can't Always Be Caviar. What a messy title...
Years ago I had The Birds of a Feather Affair. I didn't like it and got rid of it. The Girl from Uncle lacked a little something. [ Napoleon Solo perhaps? ]
I have all three Hugo Baron novels. A Cargo of Spent Evil was the most easily accessible, but all the titles are great, A Plague of Dragons has a super movie poster style cover.
Like @chrisno1 I had that Girl from UNCLE book, plus most of the Man titles. I think Michael Avallone wrote most of them. Lost in a house clear out any years ago.
The Hugo Baron cover is terrific, but I don’t care for the photo covers - give me a painting (or what looks like one, I'm no expert) any day!
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Anyone else think this guy had the best day of his professional life that day? 🤣
Michael Avallone wrote the first MFU book and two GFU books. He had a handshake deal to write the entire series but the publishers reneged on that and farmed them out to other writers. The GFU was much more popular in the UK than the US, five books were published and strangely enough only the first two were released in the US thus making #3-5 very collectable there.
I agree that the photo covers are nowhere as effective as painted covers.
And yes, that guy got paid for doing that, Sir Miles 🤣
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
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Secret Mission Istanbul looks both intriguing and tacky, but that's a great 70s photo cover. So too It Can't Always Be Caviar. What a messy title...
Years ago I had The Birds of a Feather Affair. I didn't like it and got rid of it. The Girl from Uncle lacked a little something. [ Napoleon Solo perhaps? ]
I have all three Hugo Baron novels. A Cargo of Spent Evil was the most easily accessible, but all the titles are great, A Plague of Dragons has a super movie poster style cover.
Like @chrisno1 I had that Girl from UNCLE book, plus most of the Man titles. I think Michael Avallone wrote most of them. Lost in a house clear out any years ago.
The Hugo Baron cover is terrific, but I don’t care for the photo covers - give me a painting (or what looks like one, I'm no expert) any day!
Anyone else think this guy had the best day of his professional life that day? 🤣
Michael Avallone wrote the first MFU book and two GFU books. He had a handshake deal to write the entire series but the publishers reneged on that and farmed them out to other writers. The GFU was much more popular in the UK than the US, five books were published and strangely enough only the first two were released in the US thus making #3-5 very collectable there.
I agree that the photo covers are nowhere as effective as painted covers.
And yes, that guy got paid for doing that, Sir Miles 🤣