Cover Art

[SDLagent]

Drawings/paintings would be better, but we are talking about the sketch on the original UB covers, which only showed the boys from the chest up.

[JoeHardyRocks]

Yes, but I said IF there was, and I know which ones we are talking about!

[SDLagent]

Okay, YES, I think drawings/paintings would be better then these models!

[JoeHardyRocks]

ANYTHING would be better than the actors!

[Olivia]

The cover that doesn't make the most sense is this one (click on the pic for a bigger size):

http://bookmanager.ca/?opt=kw&q=h.ts&qs=Double+Trouble%3A+Book+One+in+the+Double+Danger+Trilogy+

You know why it doesn't make sense? Because Joe is down there crouching and ready for action, but Frank is just standing there and posing, looking straight at us!

[tomswift2002]

Doesn't CSI have a couple of characters that do that at the end of the opening credits?  One is in an action pose while the others just POSE for the camera?

[Olivia]

Hmm, I don't know. I've only seen bits and pieces of CSI.

You know, I was thinking (and I'm half-serious) that we should have a poll for the worst HBs cover, starting with Deprivation House

But I guess we should wait for a few more covers, anyway. If there's going to be any more, that is...

[SDLagent]

I think the best covers used for the Undercover Brothers, are the UK ones - they look like they could be adult crime novels.

http://www.hardyboys-uk.com/undercover.html

[Olivia]

Yeah, they do look like adult crime novels! I like the Toxic Revenge one. But they still used the pathetic Boardwalk Bust

[Olivia]

Forgot to mention - and they wrote the back covers pretty well too!

[SDLagent]

Yeah, better then the mission briefing style used on the US books. When the cover art changed I was hoping the back cover summaries would change with it, but as we know now they did not!

It probably takes less time and thought to write up the mission briefings, then an actual plot summary.

[tomswift2002]

I think the best covers used for the Undercover Brothers, are the UK ones - they look like they could be adult crime novels.

http://www.hardyboys-uk.com/undercover.html

But they only did that on the reissued Casefiles (Choke Hold/Toxic Revenge/Cave Trap/Darkness Falls) while the original UB's used the same photo's as the American books.

[SDLagent]

I didn't mean photos, I meant the design, while the US books look cartooning, these don't. Also not that the photos are slightly changed and/or at different sizes.

[Olivia]

Yeah, I just realized that the cover photo I liked was a reprint of the Casefiles. Well, that tells you something.

[tomswift2002]

I sort of wonder how the reprint Casefiles fit into the first person Undercover Brothers series, considering the books were written in the third person.  Or did they just re-write the Casefiles so that they were in the first person?