Gardner, Maurice B
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1905-1977) US machinist for a Maine railroad and author of the Bantan series of novels, set on a South Pacific Island, but directly influenced by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose Tarzan books he began reading at an early age; the series, whose sf content is borderline, begins with Bantan, God-Like Islander (1936; vt Bantan of the Islands 1957), includes a Lost Race in Bantan Primeval (1961), and ends with The New Adventures of Bantan (coll 1977). [JC]
Maurice Benjamin Gardner
born Portland, Maine: 15 July 1905
died Portland, Maine: 5 November 1977
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series
Bantan
- Bantan, God-Like Islander (Boston, Massachusetts: Meador Publishing Co, 1936) [Bantan: hb/David Prosser]
- Bantan of the Islands (Boston, Massachusetts: Meador Publishing Co, 1957) [vt of the above: Bantan: hb/]
- Bantan and the Island Goddess: Being the Further Adventures of "Bantan – God-Like Islander" (Boston, Massachusetts: Meador Publishing Co, 1942) [Bantan: hb/]
- Bantan Defiant: Adventures of an Island Chieftain (New York: Greenwich Book Publishers, 1955) [Bantan: hb/Vern Coriell]
- Bantan Valiant (Boston, Massachusetts: Meador Publishing Co, 1957) [Bantan: hb/]
- Bantan's Island Peril (Boston, Massachusetts: Meador Publishing Co, 1959) [Bantan: hb/James Cawthorn]
- Bantan Incredible (Boston, Massachusetts: Forum Publishing Co, 1960) [Bantan: hb/Dave Prossner]
- Bantan Primeval (Boston, Massachusetts: Forum Publishing Co, 1961) [Bantan: hb/Dave Prossner]
- Bantan Fearless (Boston, Massachusetts: Forum Publishing Co, 1963) [Bantan: hb/Dave Prossner]
- Island Paradise and Others (Boston, Massachusetts: Forum Publishing Co, 1964) [coll: Bantan: hb/Dave Prossner]
- Bantan and the Mermaids (Brooklyn, New York: Theos Gaus' Sons, 1970) [Bantan: hb/]
- Bantan's Quest (Brooklyn, New York: Theos Gaus' Sons, 1974) [Bantan: hb/Prosser]
- The Ancestors of Bantan (Brooklyn, New York: Theos Gaus' Sons, 1976) [Bantan: hb/]
- The New Adventures of Bantan (Brooklyn, New York: Theos Gaus' Sons, 1977) [coll: Bantan: hb/Robert Horvath]
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