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Post by KaiLord on Jul 12, 2004 7:36:43 GMT
I need someone to help me either confirm or deny something. Before I finalize my huge visual checklist of the books for collectors, I need to know about Beaver's Legends of Lone Wolf books.
Someone told me once there was a fifth book in the Beaver editions. Is this true? I've never seen that book if it is true. I've always seen 4 Beavers, 5 Berkleys, and 12 Red Foxes.
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Post by outspaced on Jul 12, 2004 7:45:34 GMT
If memory serves, only the first four (Eclipse of the Kai, The Dark Door Opens, The Sword of the Sun, and Hunting Wolf) were published by Beaver Books. The first edition copy of The Claws of Helgedad I own is definitely Red Fox with a Peter Andrew Jones cover.
Since the Legends series was originally commissioned by Beaver, I would guess they had the rights to publish the first 4 books, as per the contract. The Grand Master series (1990-93) were only ever published by Red Fox. Legends 1-4 (1988-90) were under the control of Beaver, then the ensuing contracts was signed with Red Fox (1991-4).
On a side note, I wasn't aware that Red Fox ever revisited the covers on the first four books, though it would seem rather obvious in retrospect.
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Post by KaiLord on Jul 12, 2004 8:17:43 GMT
Yep, whenever Red Fox/Arrow took over, they did their own version of all 12 legends covers and all 12 Kai/Magnakai covers. They didn't touch Grey Star, though.
I knew there couldn't be a 5th Beaver cover, but I just needed someone to agree with me.
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Post by outspaced on Jul 12, 2004 11:01:45 GMT
Yeah, I knew about the Magnakai covers, since I went out and re-bought books 1-12 with those covers shortly after the Grand Master series started. I thought--and still feel--that PAJ's covers were superior to the Beaver Books editions.
On a related side-note, did the Freeway Warrior books ever have four covers that followed a set pattern? My copies of 1-2 have a different cover lay-out to 3-4. Weird.
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Post by Waiting On Password on Aug 1, 2004 3:29:01 GMT
On a related side-note, did the Freeway Warrior books ever have four covers that followed a set pattern? My copies of 1-2 have a different cover lay-out to 3-4. Weird. To the best of my knowledge, no. I assume it was down to a change in publisher. On a related side-side-note, why didn't they have the same illustrator for Book 1 as they did for Books 2-4 ? I really didn't like the illustrations in Book 1. |
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Post by outspaced on Aug 1, 2004 8:16:32 GMT
On a related side-side-note, why didn't they have the same illustrator for Book 1 as they did for Books 2-4 ? I really didn't like the illustrations in Book 1. Good question! The short answer is, only Joe Dever and Melvyn Grant (the illustrator in question) know, and they ain't telling. In the Lone Wolf Club Newsletter previewing Highway Holocaust, it states that the Freeway Warrior series would be illustrated by Melvyn Grant. But books 2-4 were illustrated by Brian Williams. Perhaps the quality of the illustrations in Book 1 were considered--as you believe them to be--below par for whatever reason and Brian Williams was drafted in at the last minute. |
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