Talk:Mack Bolan

Deletion/Re-direct?
Does anybody think the Mack Bolan character page is necessary? A lot of these points about the character are already explained/summarized on the main page for The Executioner page. It seems a bit redundant and unnecessary. Moore2014 (talk) 06:16, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Mafia Wars
Mack Bolan is responsible for approximately 18,500 Mafia members to including numerous Capos and two potentional Cosi de Tuttis "Boss of Bosses" Freddie Gambrella (Nightmare in New York" and Augie Marinello (Jersey Guns). Mack Bolan is described as a 6' 3" Caucasian male with black hair and his most identifiable feature was his icy blue eyes. Mack also had a variety of alias (Frankie Lamberetta, Frankie Vinton, Frankie Ruggi, Billy Kingdom, John Phoenix, Omega, Rance Pollock, and currently Mike Belasko).

Mack left the Mafia Wars in the late 70s to pursue an even bigger enemy, Communism. Under the Phoenix Program, Mack became an government covert operator leading both Able Team and Phoenix Force. With a cybernetics team, the Stony Man group (operating under the Sensitive Operations Group of the Department of Justice) led by Mack Bolan would take on the Soviet menance. JT Edwards

Heroic Virtue Philosophy Behind Mack Bolan
"Mack Bolan was simply a man who could command himself." – Don Pendleton, War Against the Mafia

"There are men, wrote Aristotle, so godlike, so exceptional, that they naturally, by right of their extraordinary gifts, transcend all moral judgment or constitutional control: 'There is no law which embraces men of that calibre: they are themselves law.'" Hughes-Hallett, Lucy. Heroes. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Cleanup-Rewrite template
I have added a cleanup-rewrite template to this page. The article is unsourced, and written very poorly, mostly including one or two sentence plot summaries of various books with no indication of which books these might be or why. It almost reads like a string of consciousness list about Mack Bolan, as if someone said "You have five minutes to type everything you ever remember about the character." While I believe the character is notable (he's been around for almost 40 years now, and pretty much started the Men's Adventure type books), if I were a random editor unfamilair with the subject I would probably propose the article for deletion on the spot. It is possible the article should be merged with the Executioner article, as I am not sure it is really necesary to have two articles and the useful information in this one is sparse enough to not add undo size to the other. I would fix the article myself but it has been years since I have read one of these books and do not really have time. If no one is able to clean this up, I will propose we Merge and redirect the link for this page, as many associate the name of the character and the name of the main series of the books interchangeably.

Iarann 08:20, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Response
I rewrote the article as best as I could. Any suggestions for additional information to add are welcome. And003 (talk) 08:40, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Short count
36 other Executioner novels? I count 37 thru Satan's Sabbath, not including Sicilian Slaughter (#16). TREKphiler  hit me ♠  05:09, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

List of Authors
As this article is about the character, I suggest that the list of authors, especially since it includes anyone who has written "a spin-off novel (i.e., Able Team, Phoenix Force, or Stony Man)," belongs on The Executioner (book series) article rather than here. --Tbrittreid (talk) 22:34, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Welsh?
My watchlist informed me that Clydebot corrected the name of the category about Welsh Americans. This led me to the textual description of Bolan being of "Welsh-Polish heritage." Since when? #500 or so, maybe? Long after creator Don Pendleton was not only not writing but even dead, maybe? Canonicity of the post-Pinnacle entries is very dubious, at least to the Pinnacle series itself. Gadgets Schwarz (IIRC; maybe somebody else, but I'd be very surprised) was given a completely different family history in the Able Team series than he himself gave in St. Louis Showdown. The original series made no mention of any ancestry but Polish, of which Mack was quite proud. Where was "Welsh" first mentioned? --Tbrittreid (talk) 22:42, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I remember Welsh (maybe Polish, too) in some of the Gold Eagle books, some where around #100 plus or minus 5 books. -MarsRover (talk) 07:24, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * IIRC, it was in WatM, & it's in the Warbook, so canon.  TREKphiler   any time you're ready, Uhura  11:09, 30 May 2010 (UTC)