Just a quick survey, does anyone read this series? Its a stereotypical pulp fiction series which I have been reading since high school and never let it go. For some reason I’m drawn to it still, but I’ve never actually met anyone else that reads them. Anyone?
I haven’t read one of the Remo Williams series in years but I remember them being tremendously fun. Dumb as a bag of hamsters, but they had a certain charm to them. My favorite was the book where Remo took on the cult of Kali worshipers. Good times. Are they still publishing that series?
I was disappointed when they made the ‘Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins’ movie – the movie didn’t have anywhere near the sense of fun that the books did. Plus, Fred freakin’ WARD as your star? Too bad they couldn’t have made it a few years later – Jeff Speakman would have made a much better Remo.
I used to, back when Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir still wrote it. It was quite fun and an easy read. Once Sapir died and Murphy stopped writing, it just didn’t have the same zing.
So true, its pretty much a grab bag of authors now, almost anyone can do it. Its now published by Eagle Publishing, and not really the jewel it used to be. Yeah, fun books for sure.
The movie (which I happened to catch on cable yesterday in fact!) was pretty bad, but the guy that played Chun did a decent job. I just didn’t care for the way they protrayed Sinanju, not really very well represented in the move.
Just curious to see if anyone else still reads them. I think they’re up to #133 now, time to visit amazon.com!
I used to, years ago, around the same time I was reading The Executioner series and its crossovers Able Team and Phoenix Force. Haven’t read one in about um, hrm, 9 years I guess. I enjoyed the heck out of 'em though; I was terribly disappointed in the movie. How are they now? Worth the time?
–IDB
I still like 'em IDB, but they’re not as good as when Murphy and Saphir were writing them. There are websites now too with updated info it turns out:
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Murphy is still accessable and into the series, much good info there.
Look at the size of those wrists!!
Ah ha, another fan! 
I never read too many of them, but back in 1976, when I was stationed in Korea, there were a couple of small used-bookstores in the little town just off post. A lot of the material was English language stuff from the Americans, soldiers mostly of course. They had a lot of The Executioner series books, and sometimes, for lack of anything better to do, I would read some.
There was one titled(I think) Acid Rock. There was a rock star in some sort of jeopardy. He had a wild onstage act, but was actually rather conservative in his private life, spending time studying the stock market, the better to invest his earnings. A female groupie was involved as well, and referred to Remo as “Straight Shit”. She tried to come on to Chun, of all people, but he flipped her over his head when she placed herself between him and the television showing his soaps. She ended up with the rocker.
Yeah, Chun is the man. I did read a couple of the Executioner books but I never was into the whole “mens adventure” genre, just the particular wit of the original writiers. As it turns out, the premise of the original authors was to allow themselves a pretty felxible writing style where it was not just macho blood and guts stuff. They wanted to be able to work just about any element into the stories anywhere from sci-fi to politics. I think this is what made me keep coming back…and Chun of course.
I was introduced to them in 1976 and promptly starting digging up every one I could. I would pick up the new ones as soon as they came out. I even bought the comic books, and may have a copy of “The Assassin’s Handbook.” Unfortunately, for the last ten years or so I lost track of them, and didn’t even realize they were still being written. Another thing to add to my list of stuff to track down.
Well worth the time LurkMeister if only for the nostalgia.