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#41

Network Briefings - Hardy Boys News / The State of the Hardy Boys En...

Last post by SkyWarp - January 30, 2024, 12:16:11 AM

The Hardy Boys TV Show continued to influence the traffic to the site this past year. So much so that Joe Hardy was knocked out of the top ten most viewed characters. 

An asterisk(*) denotes that a particular item was not in the top list the previous year.


Most Popular Books and TV Episodes of 2023

CASEFILES
Casefiles #1: Dead On Target
Casefiles 41: Highway Robbery*
Casefiles #40: Fright Wave*
Casefiles #11: Brother Against Brother
Casefiles #42: The Last Laugh*

NANCY DREW AND HARDY BOYS SUPERMYSTERY
SuperMystery #1: Double Crossing
SuperMystery #2: A Crime for Christmas
SuperMystery #25: Secrets of the Nile
SuperMystery #3: Shock Waves
SuperMystery #32: Exhibition of Evil*

UNDERCOVER BROTHERS
UB #1: Extreme Danger
UB #3: Boardwalk Bust
UB #7: Operation: Survival*
UB #2: Running on Fumes
UB #4: Thrill Ride

NANCY DREW AND THE HARDY BOYS SUPERMYSTERY
SuperMystery #2: Danger Overseas
SuperMystery #1: Terror on Tour
SuperMystery #5: Bonfire Masquerade
SuperMystery #3: Club Dread
SuperMystery #4: Gold Medal Murder*

UNDERCOVER BROTHERS GRAPHIC NOVELS
Graphic Novel #9: To Die or Not to Die
Graphic Novel #15: Live Free, Die Hardy!
Graphic Novel #2: Identity Theft*
Graphic Novel #18: D.A.N.G.E.R. Spells the Hangman*
Graphic Novel #7: The Opposite Numbers*

ADVENTURES
Adventure #24: As the Falcon Flies
Adventure #25: The Smuggler's Legacy*
Adventure #1: Secret of the Red Arrow
Adventure #17: The Gray Hunter's Revenge
Adventure #23: Mystery on the Mayhem Express*

CLUE BOOKS
Clue Book #1: The Video Game Bandit
Clues Book #16: Undercover Bookworms*
Clues Book #11: Bug-Napped*
Clues Book #15: The Garden Plot
Clues Book #5: Scavenger Hunt Heist

SECRET FILES
Secret Files #1: Trouble at the Arcade
Secret Files #2: The Missing Mitt
Secret Files #3: Mystery Map
Secret Files #4: Hopping Mad*
Secret Files #19: The Race Is On

MYSTERIES/DIGESTS
Mystery #1: The Tower Treasure
Mystery #8: The Mystery of Cabin Island*
Mystery #161: Training for Trouble
Mystery #59: Night of the Werewolf*
Mystery #64: Mystery of Smugglers Cove*

CLUES BROTHERS
Clues Brother #1: The Gross Ghost Mystery
Clues Brother #3: First Day, Worst Day
Clues Brother #11: The Monster in the Lake
Clues Brother #2: The Karate Clue
Clues Brother #9: The Pumped-Up Pizza Problem

TELEVISION 1995
Episode #1: Jazzman
Episode #5: Play Ball
Episode #2:  All That Glitters
Episode #7: Say Cheese
Episode #13: No Dice

TELEVISION 2020
Season 3, Episode #8:  A Wild Ride*
Season 3, Episode #1: A Strange Inheritance*
Season 3, Episode #5: Revelation*
Season 2, Episode #10: An Unexpected Return*
Season 3, Episode #2: A Vanishing Act*


Most Popular Wallpapers of 2023

Casefile #1: Dead On Target*
Casefile #41: Highway Robbery*
Casefile #7: Deathgame*
Casefile #42 The Last Laugh*
Super Mystery #1: Double Crossing*


Most Popular Off-site Links of 2023

WEBSITES
The Hardy Boys Online
The Hardy Boys Wiki on Fandom*
The Hardy Boys Book Reviews*
The Hardy Boys Encyclopedia X (Twitter) Account*


Most Popular Database Entries of 2023

CHARACTERS
Drew "Darrow" Sparewell*
J B Cox
Jesse Hooper
Olivia "Kowalski" Sparewell*
Lucy Wayne
Mr. Adrian Munder*
Anastasia "Stacy Baker" Nabokov
Aunt Gertrude Hardy
Frank Hardy
Callie Shaw

PLACES and THINGS
Bridgeport
The Circle of the Eye
Hardy Van
Rosegrave Preparatory Academy
Hardy house
Demon's Paw
Bayport
Wilt's Deli
Barmet Bay
American Teens Against Crime "ATAC"*


Most Viewed Forum Topics of 2023

FORUM TOPICS MOST VIEWED
Hardy Boys Reading Levels?
Brotherly Moments
Quotes
Looking for Hardy Boys Stories*
Good fanfics*

#42

General Hardy Boys Discussions / Re: The Hardy Boys Trivia Game...

Last post by MacGyver - January 04, 2024, 11:02:33 PM

Okay. I think this should be a fairly easy one. (I will admit I have a secondary motive here of generating conversation because the topic of this question never seemed to get much discussion on here, unfortunately.)

What Hardy Boys book is referenced in the last episode of the 2020 The Hardy Boys TV series?

(There may be multiple answers to this but there is one in particular I am thinking of that I think should have been at least somewhat obvious on the show.)

#43

Public Domain / Re: Three New Public Domain Ha...

Last post by tomswift2002 - January 03, 2024, 05:20:21 PM

Thanks for info. Does this include Nancy Drew as well?

No, Nancy Drew's first 3 books from 1930 will not enter the US Public Domain until January 1, 2026.  The rewrites will enter the US Public Domain on January 1, 2055 (books 1&2) and January 1, 2056 (book 3)

Now then in Canada, those same 1930 books will not enter the Canadian Public Domain until January 1, 2073.  However, the rewrites of those 3 books from 1959 and 1960 will enter the Canadian Public Domain on January 1, 2053.  That's because Mildred Wirt Benson died in 2002, whereas Harriet Stratemeyer Adams died 20 years earlier in 1982.  Benson was the author of the 1930 books, whereas Adams wrote the rewrites in 1959/60.
So by 2073, the 1930 text of "The Secret of the Old Clock" will have been under Copyright for 142 years here in Canada.  And because of that, no one will be able to use the Nancy Drew characters here in Canada without permission until 2073, because ALL Nancy Drew books written since the 1930 "The Secret of the Old Clock" are considered to be derivatives of that book, including the 1959 rewrite.

#44

Public Domain / Re: Three New Public Domain Ha...

Last post by MysteryFan89 - January 02, 2024, 09:32:00 PM

Thanks for info. Does this include Nancy Drew as well?

#45

Public Domain / Three New Public Domain Hardy ...

Last post by tomswift2002 - January 02, 2024, 05:55:08 AM

Happy New Year everyone.  As we enter 2024, we have Three New Hardy Boys books in the United States Public Domain, so people can use these for free.

The three books are:

#4 The Missing Chums (1928)
#5 Hunting For Hidden Gold (1928)
#6 The Shore Road Mystery (1928)

These are now in the US public domain, with Mickey Mouse, since 2024 is their 96th year of publication (US law only goes to 95 years after publication for works for hire).  Also this does not mean that the 1962 "The Missing Chums", 1963 "Hunting For Hidden Gold" or 1964 "The Shore Road Mystery" are public domain, they are still under copyright until 2058, 2059 and 2060.

Also the three 1928 books are still under copyright in Canada and other countries where "works for hire" use the Life+ "X" number of years after death policy.  So in Canada, those books are still in under copyright until January 1, 2048 when we enter the 71st year after Leslie McFarlane passed away in 1977.  (As of January 1, 2023, Canada uses the Life + 70 years, anything that fell into the Canadian Public Domain before that based on Canada's old Life + 50 law is still in the public domain.)

Also another Stratemeyer Syndicate book that enters the US Public Domain in 2024 is #31 in the "Tom Swift Adventure Series" (1910-1941).  #31 is 'Tom Swift And His Talking Pictures' (1928).  This book entered the Canadian Public Domain back in 2013 when we entered the 51st year after Howard R. Garis's death.  (That also includes his "Uncle Wiggly" books.)

#46

General Hardy Boys Discussions / Re: The Hardy Boys Trivia Game...

Last post by NZone - January 01, 2024, 10:22:52 AM

Sure

#47

General Hardy Boys Discussions / Re: The Hardy Boys Trivia Game...

Last post by MacGyver - December 31, 2023, 07:16:46 PM

Haha! Nice to finally have closure on this. I never noticed that but I'm not surprised. So does this mean I get to post the next one since I had the closest guess?

#48

General Hardy Boys Discussions / Re: The Hardy Boys Trivia Game...

Last post by NZone - December 28, 2023, 10:01:58 PM

Just realized I never closed the loop on this one. The answer is that each book's tagline has "always" in it.

#49

Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: hardy boy casefiles - Book...

Last post by tomswift2002 - December 04, 2023, 01:31:08 PM

The yellow pages ran from August 1986 to August 1992 across all the Files-Casefiles series.  The yellow is actually a dye and was held over from the paperbacks of the 1960's.  Cutting the dye cut production costs.

#50

Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: hardy boy casefiles - Book...

Last post by SkyWarp - December 01, 2023, 10:06:13 PM

I am not an expert on this, but I am guessing that since earlier printings had yellow edges, if you find a casefiles book 1-66 with white edges it was probably printed after #67 was first published. That is just my guess though. 

As far as which is worth more?  No idea.