"The Name Is Bond. Israel Bond."

The Bored of the Rings thread reminded me of Sol Weinstein’s wonderful (and feelthy!) Oy-Oy-Seven books; am I the only person who remembers these? I have a feeling that the writers of The Hebrew Hammer have a few copies lying around.

I still have my father’s copies of Loxfinger and Matzohball, but I will have to hunt down the other titles.

This is ringing some kind of bell – did they sometimes appear in Playboy in the sixties?

I have those and also You Only Live Until You Die, though not On the Secret Service of His Majesty, the Queen.

And it’s quite possible that Beard and Kenney were familiar with the books, which started coming out in 1965. They have exactly the same type of silly name play (his gun was a Simon-Garfunkel) and over the top cultural references (if less drug humor). And there were very few full book-length parodies of single titles before his.

He also later did a Godfather parody called, what else, The Oddfather, with Howard Albrecht.

I have to admit that I think he’s deservedly forgotten.

Hey, I was playing around on that Bond site, and it turns out that I’m on it for a book that I did!

For a book that nobody bought, it sure gets around. :slight_smile:

What was your book, Harpo?

What I remember from the Israel Bond series was El Al Airlines’ slogan, “You Should Only Land and Be Well.”

Sorry, Eve, I’m not public the way you are. I can send you an e-mail if you’re really consumed with curiosity.

The thing I remember about The Oddfather was the dedications. As I recall, the author’s list of people that he thanked took several dozen pages.