{"id":8685,"date":"2019-07-15T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=8685"},"modified":"2022-10-24T23:29:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T03:29:49","slug":"introduction-to-the-golden-amazon-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2019\/07\/15\/introduction-to-the-golden-amazon-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to the Golden Amazon series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'Fantastic<\/a>UPDATED:<\/strong> An interesting and long-running series that I think many might not know about is the Golden Amazon<\/strong> series by John Russell Fearn<\/strong> (1908-1960).<\/p>\n

Most of the series is ready available, but there is also a lot of misinformation about it. I have gotten some of the works and plan on doing detailed posts on stories as I read them. So here I basically introduce this series overall.<\/p>\n

Fearn was a British author, though surprisingly, many of his works were actually published first mainly in the United States, and then later in Canada. He first created a character named Violet Ray<\/strong>, known as the “Golden Amazon<\/strong>,” in a quartet of stories in Fantastic Adventures<\/em>, from 1939-43.<\/p>\n

This Golden Amazon is more of a Tarzan<\/strong> story, with Violet a child of Earth who survives a crash on Venus that kills her parents. She becomes a sort of superhuman thanks to the Venusian environment and grows up among the natives to later fight the bad guys who caused her ship to crash on Venus.<\/p>\n

If you want to read these stories, the Battered Silicon Dispatch Box<\/a> has reprinted the four, and there is another collection titled The Golden Amazon of Venus<\/em> from Gryphon Books<\/a>. Sadly, both are hard to find.<\/p>\n

Fearn revamped the character of Violet Ray for a series of books in 1944. Some sources claim he reworked the stories, but that is not so if you take a deeper look at the character. Now, Violet Ray Brant<\/strong> was the subject of a glandular experiment as a baby that turned her into a superhuman during the German Blitz of World War II. She would have increased strength and intelligence, golden skin and hair, with the hope that she’d lead the world into peace. Instead she nearly destroys the world with atomic power, and is able to escape the world’s wraith by creating a synthetic duplicate of herself who dies in her place in the first book.<\/p>\n

In the next few stories, she starts working to stop menaces to the Earth, and helps with the conquest of Venus, Mars, and other planets of the solar system. With the seventh novel, a new character is introduced \u2014 Abna the Atlantean<\/strong> \u2014 and a new direction for the series begins that is more based in the stars, as well as jumping further into the future. The series would be serialized in the Toronto Star Weekly<\/em>, then later reprinted in book form. But later stories in the series would never originally be published in book form.<\/p>\n

Golden Amazon Series:<\/p>\n