[SamAdams76]

I read every one of those books in the early 1970s as a young child. I would check them out from the library during the summer of 1971 along with Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. All published by the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

Hard to believe but at the time, all these books were controversial and banned from some libraries because they were not considered literature that children should be reading. In fact, they were considered "unworthy trash" if you can believe.

[dsc]

“I would check them out from the library during the summer of 1971 along with Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.”

In 1971 I was 20 and busy as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest trying to get a life together.

[thecodont]

Hard to believe but at the time, all these books were controversial and banned from some libraries because they were not considered literature that children should be reading. In fact, they were considered "unworthy trash" if you can believe.

"Unworthy trash" compared to what?