The Binder brothers, Earl and Otto, were SF writers in the early days of the sf pulp era. They wrote together under the pen name Eando Binder. Their most famous work is probably I, ROBOT, the story of Adam Link, an intelligent robot accused of murdering it’s creator. It was filmed twice on two versions of the series Outer Limits. The sixities version starred Leonard Nimoy as a journalist covering the trial and the nineties version again starred Nimoy, this time as Adam Link’s lawyer. I covered the collected stories, Adam Link, Robot a few years back.
By 1939, Earl had retired from writing and was his brother’s literary agent.
THE AVENGERS BATTLE THE EARTH-WRECKER can only be described as pure pulp, the last book Otto had published. It was in 1967.
it concerned the Avengers Battle with Karzz The Conqueror, an alien from 5000 years in the future who was out to destroy Earth. Humans in his future had thwarted the alien’s armada and he wanted to destroy the planet before they achieved their future supremacy.
Despite the cover, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch are described in a TV program at the beginning as former Avengers. It was actually Goliath and the Wasp in the narrative.
David Cranmer said:
You know me, Randy. I’d enjoy this read.
George Kelley said:
Like David, THE AVENGERS BATTLE THE EARTH-WRECKER sounds like my kind of book. I’ve never seen it before, but I’ll track it down. I can’t wait for THE AVENGERS 2 movie!
charlesgramlich said:
I’d kind of like to read this one. So was the Will Smith I Robot movie based on Binder’s work. It sounds much like it, although I had heard it was based on Asimov’s stuff.
Randy Johnson said:
Ostensibly it was based on Asimov’s work, but not that I could see. The title of the Asimov collection was not his, but the publisher.
Richard said:
Asimov wrote I, Robot. The screen play for the film took many liberties, but it was essentially the same concept, “adjusted”.
Leisch said:
Haven’t read this one in years, I’ll have to dig it out of the stacks. Have you read the Bantam Captain AMerica by Ted White? I think it’s called The Great Gold Robbery or something similar.
Randy Johnson said:
THE GREAT GOLD STEAL and I covered that one a few years back.
Richard said:
I really liked this one, though I admit skimming some of the intro stuff at the beginning. I didn’t know it was Binders final book. Great post!
Brad Walker said:
Mention should also be made of the many Captain Marvel stories Binder wrote. During the Batman craze he and Cap artist C.C. Beck tried to jump on the bandwagon with Fatman the Human Flying Saucer.