The Hardy Boys Unofficial Fan Podcast

Bruce Whitehill is the ghostwriter of Hardy Boys Casefiles #17 - The Number File. He is an author, game inventor, and game historian whose works can be found on his website: https://thebiggamehunter.com/

Larry Michael Garmon Swain, who has published under Larry Mike Garmon and LMG Swain, is the ghostwriter of 6 Hardy Boys Casefiles: 27) Nowhere to Run, 36) Running on Empty, 39) Flesh and Blood, 43) Strategic Moves, 46) Foul Play, and 126) Fire in the Sky, and 1 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew SuperMystery: 7) Buried in Time. He has worked on other YA series, such as Universal Monsters and Roller Coaster Tycoon. He has published other novels as well. If listeners have any questions for Mr. Swain,...

Rick Oliver is the most prolific of the known Hardy Boys Casefiles authors. He ghostwrote 33 – Collision Course, 40 – Fright Wave, 45 – In Self-Defense, 50 – Power Play, 59 – Open Season, 69 – Mayhem in Motion, 76 – Tagged for Terror (rewrite), 77 – Survival Run, 85 – Winner Take All, 88 – Inferno of Fear (rewrite), 93 – Mission: Mayhem, 98 - Murder by Magic (rewrite), and 100 – True Thriller.

Gary Cohn is an American comic book writer, and co-creator (with Dan Mishkin) of the DC Comics characters Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld and Blue Devil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Cohn_(comics) He ghostwrote 3 books in the Hardy Boys Casefiles series: 47) Flight into Danger, 92) Sabotage at Sea, and 104) Wild Wheels.

Steven Grant is an American comic book writer best known for his 1985–1986 Marvel Comics mini-series The Punisher with artist Mike Zeck and for his creator-owned character Whisper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Grant He ghostwrote 6 books in the Hardy Boys Casefiles series: 3) Cult of Crime, 6) The Crowning Terror, 14) Too Many Traitors, 19) Nightmare in Angel City, 29) Thick as Thieves, and 62) Final Gambit.

This is a short introduction to a mini-series I will be doing on the Hardy Boys Casefiles series, which consisted of 127 books from 1987 to 1998.

I briefly discuss the publishing background of the Hardy Boys Mystery Stories before introducing a new series about the revisions of books 1 to 38. I present my thesis that the changes were motivated by an effort to appeal to new tastes rather than to remove outdated racial stereotypes. Next episode - an in-depth analysis of the changes made to The Tower Treasure.

The inaugural episode of the Hardy Boys Unofficial Fan Podcast hosted by Luke. SkyWarp, the creator of the Hardy Boys fan website hardyboyscasefiles.com and the moderator of its forum, joins Luke to review the 2020 TV series The Hardy Boys on Hulu. The two discuss the setting, characters, and storyline, and they offer their takes on what the show did well and where it could have been better.