Ron Goulart books

Ron Goulart is an author of non-fiction, known for the Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon series, with 267 books published between 1939 and 2019.

Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Lion Men of Mongo 1974 Buy
The Plague of Sound 1974 Buy
The Space Circus 1974 Buy
The Time Trap of Ming XIII 1974 Buy
The Witch Queen of Mongo 1974 Buy
The War of the Cybernauts 1975 Buy

Anthologies

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1952 1952 N/A
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction Nineteenth Series 1971 Buy
Best From Fantasy And Science Fiction: 18th Series 1973 Buy
Antigrav 1975 Buy
Weird Heroes Volume 1 1975 Buy
Weird Heroes Volume 6 1977 Buy
Alfred Hitchcock’s Borrowers of the Night 1983 Buy
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fatal Attractions 1983 Buy
Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1985 Buy
The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 1988 Buy
Isaac Asimov’s Fantasy! 1989 Buy
Year’s Best SF 4 1999 Buy
Crafty Cat Crimes 2000 Buy
The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy 2001 Buy
DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction 2002 Buy
DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies 2002 Buy
Fantasy & Science Fiction February 2008; Vol 114 No. 2 2008 Buy
Science Fiction Gems, Vol. One 2011 Buy
The Second Mystery Megapack 2014 Buy
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (March/April 2014) 2014 Buy
Zombies: More Recent Dead 2014 Buy
X is for Xmas 2015 Buy
Never Fear - The Apocalypse 2017 Buy

Barnum System Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Fire Eater 1970 Buy
Clockwork’s Pirates 1971 Buy
Shaggy Planet 1973 Buy
Space Hawk, Inc. 1974 Buy
Il perfido Cyborg 1978 N/A
The Wicked Cyborg 1978 Buy
Dr. Scofflaw 1979 Buy

Barnum System: Ben Jolsen Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Sword Swallower 1968 Buy
Flux 1974 Buy
Shaggy Planet 1943 N/A
Il perfido Cyborg 1978 N/A

Barnum System: Jack Summer Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Death Cell 1971 Buy
Plunder 1972 Buy
Shaggy Planet 1943 N/A
A Whiff of Madness 1976 Buy
Galaxy Jane 1986 Buy
Il perfido Cyborg 1978 N/A

Barnum System: Star Hawks Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Empire Ninety Nine 1980 Buy
The Cyborg King 1981 Buy
Shaggy Planet 1943 N/A
Il perfido Cyborg 1978 N/A

Ben Spanner & H. J. Mavity Mysteries Seroes Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Even the Butler Was Poor 1990 Buy
Now He Thinks He’s Dead 1992 Buy

Buck Rogers: The Complete Newspaper Dailies Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Vol. 1: 1929-1931 2008 Buy
The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 1: 1936-1937 2009 N/A
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Vol. 2: 1930-1932 2009 Buy
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Vol. 3: 1932-1934 2009 Buy
The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 3: 1939-1940 2011 N/A
The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 0 1939 N/A
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Vol. 4: 1934-1935 2010 Buy
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Vol. 5: 1935-1936 2011 Buy
The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies, Vol. #5: 1943-1944 2012 N/A
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Vol. 6: 1936-1938 2012 Buy
The Phantom: Complete Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 6 2013 N/A
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Vol. 7: 1938-1940 2012 Buy
The Phantom Complete Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 7: 1946-1947 2014 N/A
The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 8: 1947-1949 2015 N/A
The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 9: 1949-1950 2015 N/A
The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies and Sundays, Vol. 10: 1950-1951 2016 N/A
The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 11: 1951-1953 2017 N/A
The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies, , Vol. 12 2017 N/A
The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 13: 1955-1957 2018 N/A
The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies, Vol. 14: 1956-1957 2018 N/A
The Phantom Complete Newspaper Dailies:, Vol. 0 2019 N/A
The Phantom: The Complete Dailies -Volume 17: 1961-1962 2019 N/A
The Phantom the complete dailies volume 18: 1962-1964 2019 N/A

Chameleon Corps Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Chameleon Corps and Other Shape Changers 1974 Buy
Flux 1974 N/A

Classic Battlestar Galactica Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Battlestar Galactica 1978 Buy
Galactica 1978 N/A
The Cylon Death Machine 1979 Buy
Resurrection 1979 N/A
The Tombs of Kobol 1979 Buy
The Young Warriors 1980 Buy
Galactica Discovers Earth 1980 Buy
The Living Legend 1982 Buy
War of the Gods 1982 Buy
Greetings From Earth 1983 Buy
Experiment in Terra 1984 Buy
Experiment in Terra - Battlestar Galactica 09 1984 N/A
The Long Patrol 1984 Buy
Battlestar Galactica 11: The Nightmare Machine 1985 Buy
The Nightmare Machine 1985 Buy
Battlestar Galactica 12: “Die, Chameleon!” 1986 N/A
Die, Chameleon! 1986 Buy
Battlestar Galactica 13: Apollo’s War 1987 Buy
Apollo’s War 1987 Buy
Battlestar Galactica 14: Surrender the Galactica! 1988 N/A
Surrender the Galactica! 1988 Buy

Collections

Title Published Buy on Amazon
What’s Become of Screwloose? and Other Inquiries 1971 Buy
Odd Job #101, and Other Future Crimes and Intrigues 1974 Buy
Nutzenbolts and More Troubles with Machines 1975 Buy
Adam and Eve on a Raft 2001 Buy
Subject to Change 2016 Buy

Comic Book Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Great Comic Book Artists 1986 Buy
The Definitive Illustrated History from the 1890s to the 1980s 1986 Buy
Over Fifty Years of American Comic Books 1990 Buy
Great American Comic Books 2001 Buy
Comic Book Encyclopedia 2004 Buy
Alex Raymond 2015 Buy

Ex-Chameleon Corps Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Daredevils, Ltd 1987 Buy
Starpirate’s Brain 1987 Buy
Flux 1974 N/A
Everybody Comes to Cosmo’s 1988 Buy

Fragmented America Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
After Things Fell Apart 1970 Buy
Gadget Man 1971 Buy
Hawkshaw 1973 Buy
Crackpot 1977 Buy
Brinkman 1981 Buy

Graphic Novels

Title Published Buy on Amazon
William Shatner’s Tek World 1994 Buy
The Phantom 2018 Buy

Groucho Marx Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Groucho Marx, Master Detective 1998 Buy
Groucho Marx, Private Eye 1999 Buy
Elementary, My Dear Groucho 1999 Buy
Groucho Marx and the Broadway Murders 2001 Buy
Groucho Marx, Secret Agent 2002 Buy
Groucho Marx, King of the Jungle 2005 Buy

Harry Challenge Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Prisoner of Blackwood Castle 1984 Buy
The Curse of the Obelisk 1987 Buy

Jack Conger Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
A Talent for the Invisible 1973 Buy
The Panchronicon Plot 1977 Buy
Hello, Lemuria Hello 1979 Buy

John Easy Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
If Dying Was All 1971 Buy
Too Sweet to Die 1972 Buy
The Same Lie Twice 1973 Buy
One Grave Too Many 1974 Buy

Laverne And Shirley Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Teamwork 1976 Buy
Easy Money 1976 Buy
Gold Rush 1976 Buy

Marvel Novel Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Amazing Spider-Man: Mayhem in Manhattan 1978 Buy
Hulk: Stalker from the Star 1978 Buy
The Incredible Hulk: Cry of the Beast 1979 Buy
Captain America: Holocaust For Hire 1979 Buy
Fantastic Four: Doomsday 1979 Buy
Iron Man: And Call My Killer… Modok! 1979 Buy
Doctor Strange: Nightmare 1979 Buy
The Amazing Spider-Man: Crime Campaign 1979 Buy
Marvel Superheroes 1979 Buy
The Avengers: The Man Who Stole Tomorrow 1979 Buy
The Hulk/Spider-Man: Murdermoon 1979 Buy
Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Wisemann Originals 1989 Buy

Non-Fiction

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Cheap Thrills 1972 Buy
An American Family 1973 Buy
The Adventurous Decade 1975 Buy
The Dime Detectives 1988 Buy
The Encyclopedia of American Comics 1990 Buy
The Comic Book Reader’s Companion 1993 Buy
The Funnies 1995 Buy
Comic Book Culture 2000 Buy
Joe Chiodo’s How to Draw and Paint Pin-Ups 2006 Buy
Good Girl Art 2007 Buy

Odd Jobs, Inc Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Calling Dr. Patchwork 1978 Buy
Hail Hibbler 1980 Buy
Big Bang 1982 Buy
Brainz, Inc 1985 Buy

Standalone Novels

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Ghost Breaker 1971 N/A
The Lion Men of Mongo 1974 N/A
The Tin Angel 1973 Buy
The Plague of Sound 1974 N/A
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold 1973 Buy
The Space Circus 1974 N/A
The Time Trap of Ming XIII 1974 N/A
The Hellhound Project 1975 Buy
The Witch Queen of Mongo 1974 N/A
When the Waker Sleeps 1975 Buy
The War of the Cybernauts 1975 N/A
The Enormous Hourglass 1976 Buy
Nemo 1977 Buy
Challengers of the Unknown 1977 Buy
Emperor Of The Last Days 1977 Buy
The Island Of Dr. Moreau 1977 Buy
Capricorn One 1978 Buy
Cowboy Heaven 1979 Buy
Ghosting 1980 Buy
Skyrocket Steele 1980 Buy
Robot in the Closet 1981 Buy
Upside Downside 1982 Buy
The Great British Detective 1982 Buy
Hellquad 1984 Buy
Graveyard of My Own 1985 Buy
Suicide, Inc. 1985 Buy
The Tijuana Bible 1989 Buy

TekWar Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
TekWar 1989 Buy
TekLords 1991 Buy
TekLab 1991 Buy
Tek Vengeance 1993 Buy
TekSecret 1993 Buy
TekPower 1994 Buy
TekMoney 1995 Buy
Tek Kill 1996 Buy
TekNet 1997 Buy

The Avenger Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Avenger Volume 3 1974 N/A
Justice, Inc. 1939 Buy
The Yellow Hoard 1939 Buy
The Sky Walker 1939 Buy
The Devil’s Horns 1939 Buy
The Frosted Death 1940 Buy
The Blood Ring 1940 Buy
Stockholders in Death 1940 Buy
The Glass Mountain 1940 Buy
Tuned for Murder 1940 Buy
The Smiling Dogs 1940 Buy
River of Ice 1940 Buy
The Flame Breathers 1940 Buy
Murder on Wheels 1940 Buy
Murder On Wheels 1973 N/A
Three Gold Crowns 1941 Buy
House of Death 1941 Buy
The Hate Master 1941 Buy
Nevlo 1941 Buy
Death in Slow Motion 1941 Buy
Pictures of Death 1941 Buy
The Green Killer 1942 Buy
The Happy Killers 1942 Buy
The Black Death 1942 Buy
The Wilder Curse 1942 Buy
Midnight Murder 1942 Buy
The Man From Atlantis 1974 Buy
Red Moon 1974 Buy
The Purple Zombie 1974 Buy
Dr. Time 1974 Buy
The Nightwitch Devil 1974 Buy
Black Chariots 1974 Buy
The Cartoon Crimes 1974 Buy
The Blood Countess 1975 Buy
The Death Machine 1975 Buy
The Glass Man 1975 Buy
The Iron Skull 1975 Buy
Demon Island 1975 Buy
Weird Insects 1975 N/A
Roaring Heart of the Crucible 2013 Buy

The Story of the Phantom Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
The Story Of The Phantom 1972 N/A
The Story of the Phantom: The Ghost Who Walks 1972 Buy
The Slave Market of Mucar 1972 Buy
The Scorpia Menace 1972 N/A
The Scorpia Menace! 1972 Buy
The Veiled Lady 1973 Buy
The Golden Circle 1973 Buy
The Mysterious Ambassador 1973 Buy
The Mystery of the Sea Horse 1973 Buy
The Hydra Monster 1973 Buy
Killer’s Town 1973 N/A
Killer’s Town 1973 Buy
Google-Eyed Pirates 1974 Buy
The Goggle-Eyed Pirates 1974 N/A
The Swamp Rats 1974 Buy
The Vampires and the Witch 1974 Buy
The Island of Dogs 1975 Buy
The Assassins 1975 Buy
The Curse of the Two-Headed Bull 1975 Buy
The Phantom 1996 Buy

Urania

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Broke Down Engine 1971 Buy

Vampirella Reading Order

Title Published Buy on Amazon
Bloodstalk 1975 Buy
On Alien Wings 1975 Buy
Deadwalk 1976 Buy
Blood Wedding 1976 Buy
Deathgame 1976 Buy
Snake God 1976 Buy

Ron Goulart was a remarkably prolific writer whose 267 books cover science fiction, mystery, humor, tie-in fiction, comic book history, and pulp adventure. His career spans decades, with contributions to franchises like Flash Gordon, Battlestar Galactica, The Avenger, Vampirella, The Phantom, and the TekWar series (credited to William Shatner). He also wrote original series including the Barnum System books, the Fragmented America novels, the Odd Jobs Inc. adventures, and the Groucho Marx mystery series.

Beyond fiction, Goulart was a serious historian of comics and pulp culture. His non-fiction titles include Cheap Thrills, The Dime Detectives, The Encyclopedia of American Comics, and Comic Book Encyclopedia. He also wrote the Comic Book series of reference works and a biography of artist Alex Raymond. His anthology appearances range from Fantasy & Science Fiction to collections of cat-themed crime stories and zombie fiction. For readers interested in the overlap between science fiction, pulp adventure, and pop culture history, Goulart’s catalog has few rivals in sheer variety.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books has Ron Goulart written?

Ron Goulart has written 267 books across 30 series.

What was Ron Goulart's first book?

Ron Goulart’s first book is Justice, Inc., published in 1939.

What genres does Ron Goulart write in?

Ron Goulart writes non-fiction, paranormal, and urban fantasy. Their best-known work includes the Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon series.

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