Some of the most exciting action adventure and other fun characters appeared
in GOLD MEDAL books. These include:
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| Tom Buchanan, Jonas Ward's big, tough Texan hero. |
| The superspy "Cajun" Sam Durell of K Section with his boss Dickinson McFee and girlfriend Diedre Padgett, hero of the Assignment series created by Edward S. Aarons and continued by Will B. Aarons. |
| Joe Gall (Joseph Liam Gall), contract counter-espionage agent, hero of Philip Atlee's Contract series with his director Neal Pearsall and his Ozark hilltop hideaway. | 
| Uncle Good and his girls, Orla June and Jewel Mae and the other hillbilly characters of the CABIN ROAD books, written by John Faulkner. |  |
| Donald Hamilton's realistic espionage agent Matthew Helm, played on screen in a most unrealistic and comic manner by Dean Martin |  |
| John D. MacDonald, a prolific writer of suspense as well as other novels, created the character of Travis McGee, who lives aboard a houseboat the "Busted Flush" and makes his living salvaging the property and lives of others. | Ed Noon, private detective hero of Michael Avallone's books, published by GOLD MEDAL and other publishers. |
| Shell Scott, comic private eye with the white crewcut and an eye for the ladies. Created by Richard S. Prather. | 
| Police detectives Pete Selby and Stan Rayder, heroes of books written by Jonathan Craig, a number of which had titles starting with "Case Of the . . . " |  |
| Evan Tanner, the "the thief who (quite literally) couldn't sleep", who finds himself in some almost impossible predicaments but always with one or more beautiful girls involved. The author, Lawrence Block. | 
| Dick Tracy, cartoon detective hero of yesteryear with many strange enemies, created by Chester Gould. GOLD MEDAL released a series of his greatest cases edited by Herb Galewitz. |
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