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Poll
Question: What was the first Hardy Boys series you read?
Option 1: Originals (Blue Spines) votes: 5
Option 2: Digests votes: 1
Option 3: Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Super Sleuths votes: 0
Option 4: Casefiles votes: 3
Option 5: Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Supermystery '88 votes: 2
Option 6: Hardy Boys/Tom Swift Ultra Thiller votes: 0
Option 7: Undercover Brothers votes: 3
Option 8: Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Supermystery '07 votes: 1
Option 9: Other votes: 0
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Post by: Sam Spade on August 03, 2008, 06:47:02 PM
I'm not sure if there is already a topic for this, but, please vote anyway if you want to. :)


The first Series I ever read were the Casefiles. The first HB book I ever read was #7 Deathgame.
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Post by: mystery chick 901 on August 03, 2008, 07:22:15 PM
The Undercover Brothers.
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Post by: FrankJoeATAC on August 03, 2008, 07:23:10 PM
The first one I read was Terror on Tour.
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Post by: JoeHardyRocks on August 03, 2008, 08:33:31 PM
The first one I read was ND HB crossovers 07
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Post by: tomswift2002 on August 04, 2008, 07:15:32 AM
The first Hardy Boys book that I ever read was the 1959 The Tower Treasure from the flashlight Original series.  And I first got that book on Tuesday, March 15, 1994.  I didn't read my first Casefiles till March 1995 when I borrowed Cold Sweat from the Chalk River Public Library.
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Post by: NZone on August 04, 2008, 09:09:38 AM
The first series I read was the Blue Spines. My father had a bunch that he gave me. The first book I read was While the Clock Ticked, because I thought the cover art looked cool. I was only 4 at the time. I learned how to read on Bernstein Bears, Little Monsters, and Hardy Boys.
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Post by: Olivia on August 04, 2008, 04:18:00 PM
A couple of the '88 ND/HB Supermystery series! Operation: Titanic and Process of Elimination.
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Post by: tomswift2002 on August 04, 2008, 04:59:35 PM
Quote from: negative_zone on August 04, 2008, 09:09:38 AM
The first series I read was the Blue Spines. My father had a bunch that he gave me. The first book I read was While the Clock Ticked, because I thought the cover art looked cool. I was only 4 at the time. I learned how to read on Bernstein Bears, Little Monsters, and Hardy Boys.
I guess you read the revised text of While The Clock Ticked first?  Or was it the original text?

And does anyone remember what their Second Hardy Boys book that they ever read was?  For me, it was The Melted Coins (1944).
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Post by: NZone on August 04, 2008, 05:52:28 PM
revised What Happened at Midnight, second one was revised Tower Treasure
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Post by: Sam Spade on August 05, 2008, 12:05:34 AM
Quote from: tomswift2002 on August 04, 2008, 04:59:35 PM
I guess you read the revised text of While The Clock Ticked first?  Or was it the original text?

And does anyone remember what their Second Hardy Boys book that they ever read was?

Dead on Target, but I didn't actually finish it. :-\ :P
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Post by: 003Robin457 on August 05, 2008, 09:58:00 AM
I started at #1 The Tower Treasure and kept in order till after #15 somewhere, then read what ever I could find at used book shops.
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Post by: JoeHardyRocks on August 05, 2008, 05:18:13 PM
The  second one I ever read was Terror on Tour.
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Post by: Q on August 06, 2008, 12:27:19 PM
My first one was Digest Panic on Gull Island. I think my second as The Flickering Torch.
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Post by: SDLagent on August 06, 2008, 12:39:49 PM
My first was the revised text of The Hardy Boys #2 ''The House on the Cliff''. I read about 20 more revised originals before I read any other Hardy Boys book.

When I first heard that Iola was killed in the ''Dead on Target'', I was so shocked I told myself I would never read a Casefile...but within a few months, a bit bored at a friend's house, I picked a copy of Casefiles #6 ''The Crowning Terror''. I ended up reading the first few chapters, and later burrowed the book from another friend, and have been a Casefiles fan ever since.

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Post by: tomswift2002 on August 06, 2008, 03:56:25 PM
Quote from: HardyBoysWiki on August 06, 2008, 12:39:49 PM
My first was the revised text of The Hardy Boys #2 ''The House on the Cliff''. I read about 20 more revised originals before I read any other Hardy Boys book.

When I first heard that Iola was killed in the ''Dead on Target'', I was so shocked I told myself I would never read a Casefile...but within a few months, a bit bored at a friend's house, I picked a copy of Casefiles #6 ''The Crowning Terror''. I ended up reading the first few chapters, and later burrowed the book from another friend, and have been a Casefiles fan ever since.



For me, with the Casefiles, my mom didn't want me to be reading books with the word "Dead" in the title. So, finally she allowed me to check out Cold Sweat from the Chalk River library, and that was quickly followed by the Operation Phoenix Trilogy from the Keys School Library in Deep River.
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Post by: SDLagent on August 06, 2008, 05:21:34 PM
I don't think my mum was to thrilled that I was reading the Casefiles, either.
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Post by: FrankJoeATAC on August 06, 2008, 05:37:32 PM
My mom isn't so thrilled that I've been reading the Graphic Novels...
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Post by: Olivia on August 06, 2008, 05:46:28 PM
The Graphic Novels? Really?

Is it because of the content, or because of the design? (Because some people don't consider them good enough to read because it's just pictures as opposed to I don't know, high-class literature).
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Post by: FrankJoeATAC on August 06, 2008, 05:49:44 PM
I think it's because of the design, I mean, she knows that I like to read all kinds of versions of HB books, but she doesn't seem to like the comic-like pictures in the Graphic Novels for some reason..
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Post by: SDLagent on August 06, 2008, 06:16:32 PM
Sometimes the girls outfits are, shall we say...revealing, even if they are cartoon characters, that's the only thing I can think of anyway.
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Post by: JoeHardyRocks on August 06, 2008, 07:12:01 PM
Quote from: HardyBoysWiki on August 06, 2008, 06:16:32 PM
Sometimes the girls outfits are, shall we say...revealing, even if they are cartoon characters, that's the only thing I can think of anyway.


All of the girls in the Graphic Novels dress that way!!! :o
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Post by: SDLagent on August 06, 2008, 08:39:17 PM
Yeah...I guess they'd have to change a few things if they were going to have a Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew crossover, since the Nancy Drew series isn't like that. LOL
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Post by: Olivia on August 07, 2008, 11:54:58 AM
Quote from: HardyBoysWiki on August 06, 2008, 08:39:17 PM
Yeah...I guess they'd have to change a few things if they were going to have a Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew crossover, since the Nancy Drew series isn't like that. LOL

I would love a crossover! That'd be awesome. I wonder if it would be thicker than the average novel, though.
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Post by: 003Robin457 on August 07, 2008, 05:14:46 PM
I'd love a cross over too. I want it to be thicker as well, with both ND & the HBs you need a longer book. But who would write/draw it? ???
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Post by: tomswift2002 on August 07, 2008, 06:01:50 PM
Quote from: HardyBoysWiki on August 06, 2008, 08:39:17 PM
Yeah...I guess they'd have to change a few things if they were going to have a Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew crossover, since the Nancy Drew series isn't like that. LOL

You mean have the Hardy's in mini-skirts and revealing shirts????? I don't know how well that would go over with parents. 

Imagine Frank and Joe looking like a female character from Sailor Moon...hahahahahaha.
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Post by: Olivia on August 07, 2008, 09:33:12 PM
Quote from: tomswift2002 on August 07, 2008, 06:01:50 PM
You mean have the Hardy's in mini-skirts and revealing shirts????? I don't know how well that would go over with parents. 

Imagine Frank and Joe looking like a female character from Sailor Moon...hahahahahaha.

Well, there's an idea. Maybe they will have to disguise themselves sometime...
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Post by: SDLagent on August 07, 2008, 11:04:07 PM
Quote from: tomswift2002 on August 07, 2008, 06:01:50 PM
You mean have the Hardy's in mini-skirts and revealing shirts????? I don't know how well that would go over with parents. 

Imagine Frank and Joe looking like a female character from Sailor Moon...hahahahahaha.

No I meant they'd have to change the women, since they're not like that in the Nancy Drew series.
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Post by: Olivia on August 08, 2008, 12:15:13 PM
Quote from: HardyBoysWiki on August 07, 2008, 11:04:07 PM
No I meant they'd have to change the women, since they're not like that in the Nancy Drew series.

Mmmm...I think he was joking but who knows.
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Post by: tomswift2002 on August 08, 2008, 02:32:44 PM
Quote from: oliviatocali on August 08, 2008, 12:15:13 PM
Mmmm...I think he was joking but who knows.

Yeah, I was.