With the success of The Executioner , Pinnacle began creating titles that captured the action-oriented, vigilante feel. In 1973, the publis...

Chet Cunningham authored six Executioner novels between 1983 and 1986 beginning with the 59th installment, Crude Kill. I have always enjoy...

The Penetrator series was a Mack Bolan knock-off written by Chet Cunningham (even numbered installments) and Mark K. Roberts the odd on...

Journeyman  Chet Cunningham authored a four book series from 1987-1988 titled The Avenger . It's an odd title because the series was ...

Join us for a controversial discussion on authors who utilize ghostwriters to draft series novels under house names. Also, we look at the 19...

Baltimore Trackdown is the 88th entry in the long-running  The Executioner series. Written by journeyman  Chet Cunningham (1928-2017), ...

In this episode, we discuss the massive Mack Bolan universe, including the origin, spin-offs and legacy of "The Executioner". Addi...

Chet Cunningham remains one of my favorite authors of pulpy men’s adventure fiction, but I’ve had trouble connecting with his popular ser...

It’s the debut of the Paperback Warrior Podcast ! In this episode, we’ll provide an introduction to our hosts Eric and Tom. Together, we loo...

'Spur' was a long-running adult western series that ran for 40+ books. The main character is Spur McCoy, a former Union Captain ...

Because the series order really doesn’t matter, my next foray into the world of adult western hero Canyon O’Grady is the fifth book in the...

Nebraska native Chet Cunningham penned over 450 books in his lifetime. The prolific author served as a mortar gunner in the Korean war bef...

Chet Cunningham was a workhorse at writing action/adventure paperbacks, knocking out dozens and dozens of them in multiple genres (not to ...

In 1972, Chet Cunningham was a young, struggling novelist collecting a pile of unwanted rejection slips. Hearing that westerns paid less t...

Writing as Jess Cody, Chet Cunningham's series debut, "Gold Wagon" (1972) has Jim Steel searching the back trails of Arizona...

A superb Luis Dominguez wrap-around cover and the promise of an exciting gold-hunting story prompted me to start reading Chet Cunningham&#...

There were over 40 volumes of the western series ‘Spur’. The Leisure house name was Dirk Fletcher but these were actually written by journ...

Stephen Mertz is widely considered the main creator of the ‘M.I.A. Hunter’ series. He, along with Bill Crider and Joe Lansdale, wrote a ma...