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Written in the late 1960s, the Christopher Cool novels (only 6) were written by a
ghostwriter who identified himslef once in an interview as "Jim Lawrence."
Could this be James Duncan Lawrence of Tom Swift Jr. fame?
Please do not distribute these. Just enjoy reading them!

The 4 The Mad Scientist's Club books were published between about 1965 and 2005.

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The Christoper Cool Stories

The sources for the following stories come from Neil L. Many thanks!!!. As for the covers, some are scans and OCR-ings of books from a local library, some are conglomerations from various sources from the Interne. In every case, a fair amount of work was necessary to make them as presentable as possible. This is especially true with several for which I was only able to locate low-quality, small artwork and had to go through a process of enlarge/fix/enlarge/fix/enlarge until I had something that can work as both a screen-quality image as well as one capable of being used in the printing industry. This was done with varying success.

Published by Grosset & Dunlap, these toon spy stories feature stereotypical "smarter than adults" teens that include an American Indian named Geronimo, an attractive girl, Spice Carter (Cinnamon Carter from Mission Impossible??), an African American named Beauregard and a Japanese girl, Yummi, beginning in book 4.


   

Chris Cool book 1

Book 1: X-Marks the Spy.

(1967)

 

Chris Cool book 2

Book 2: Mission Moonfire.

(1967)

 

Chris Cool book 3

Book 3: The Department of Danger.

(1967)

 

Chris Cool book 4

Book 4: Ace of Shadows.

(1967)

Chris Cool book 5

Book 5: Heads You Lose.

(1968)

Chris Cool book 6

Book 6: Trial By Fury.

(1969)

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The Mad Scientist's Club Stories

The sources for the following stories come from a variety of places. One is a scan and OCR-ing of the third book from my library, while the others are from a legitimate sources (Thanks Neil L!) I believe these stories may still be covered under U.S. copyrights.

The covers are conglomerations from various sources, from the Internet to my own books. In every case, a fair amount of work was necessary to make them as presentable as possible. These feature cleaned versions of the original covers set into a framework of new art not previously associated with the series. This was done because few good sources of high-resolution cover art could be found.

The club members include Jeff Crocker, Harry Mulligan, Dinky Poore (the smallest one of them), Freddy Muldoon (the gotta have fat kid) Homer Snodgress, Mortimer Dalrymple and Charlie Fincledinck (who "narrates" the stories.)

The Mad Scientists' Club stories build their plos around science, mechanical inclination, a do it yourself ethic, and some good-natured pranks, making the boys in these books sort of junior precursors to MacGyver.

 

Mad Scientist's Club book 1

Book 1: The Mad Scientist's Club

The first of the collections of short stories about this misfit group of young "scientists." Most were published between 1961 and 1965 in Boy's Life magazine.

 

Mad Scientist's Club book 2

Book 2: The New Adventures of The Mad Scientist's Club

This is the Schoolastic Book Service printing of the second collection of Mad Scientist's Club short stories originally published between 1965 and 1968.

 

Mad Scientist's Club book 3

Book 3: The Big Kerplop!

Published in 1974, this book was written 14 years after the first story, "The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake", chronologically it is the first story in the series, telling how the Mad Scientists' Club came into being and the full story behind their long-standing animosity with Harmon Muldoon.

Only about 1,000 copies of this third book were originally published. Its publisher went bancrupt shortly after it went to press. A wider publication took place in 2001 under a different publisher.

 

Mad Scientist's Club book 4

Book 4: The Big Chunk of Ice

Released in 2005, this book is the second novel-length story and was not published until decades after it was supposedly written.

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