Editing The Avengers (TV series) (section)

===Novels===
A number of original novels based on the series were published in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://deadduck.theavengers.tv/bookshel.htm|title=The Avengers - Official Novelisations|work=theavengers.tv}}</ref> The first by Douglas Enefer, published by Consul Books, was the only 60s novel to feature Cathy Gale. Panther Books published four novels written by John Garforth featuring Emma Peel in the United Kingdom in 1967; Berkley Medallion Books reprinted these in the United States. After Panther stopped publishing ''Avengers'' novels in the UK, Berkley Medallion continued publishing original novels of their own: one featuring Peel and four featuring Tara King for the US market only; three by [[Keith Laumer]] in 1968; and two by Norman Daniels 1968/69. Berkley Medallion later re-printed all nine novels with new covers that featured photos of both Rigg and Thorson, regardless of which ''Avengers'' girl appeared in the novel. The two novels published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1965/66 were co-written by Patrick Macnee, making him one of the first actors to write licensed spin-off fiction of their own shows. The Macnee novels, ''Deadline'' and ''Dead Duck'', were reprinted in the UK by [[Titan Books]] in standard paperback in 1994 and in France by Huitieme Art (1995 & 1996). They were also published in the US for the first time by TV Books in 1998. Titan reissued the books in [[Trade paperback (comics)|trade paperback]] format (with the same covers) to coincide with the release of the [[The Avengers (1998 film)|1998 feature film]].

The 1990 novel ''Too Many Targets'' by [[John Peel (writer)|John Peel]] featured all of Steed's partners (David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King) with the exception of Venus Smith and Dr Martin King.

* ''The Avengers'', Douglas Enefer, 1963
* ''Deadline'', Patrick Macnee and Peter Leslie, 1965
* ''Dead Duck'', Macnee and Leslie, 1966
* ''The Floating Game'', John Garforth, 1967
* ''The Laugh Was on Lazarus'', Garforth, 1967
* ''The Passing of Gloria Munday'', Garforth, 1967
* ''Heil Harris!'', Garforth, 1967
* ''The Afrit Affair'', Keith Laumer, 1968
* ''The Drowned Queen'', Laumer, 1968
* ''The Gold Bomb'', Laumer, 1968
* ''The Magnetic Man'', Norman A. Daniels, 1968
* ''Moon Express'', Daniels, 1969
* ''John Steed: An Authorized Biography Vol. 1: Jealous in Honour'', [[Tim Heald]], 1977 (UK release only)
* A four volume fan fiction set produced in Australia but authorised.
** Vol. 1 ''The Weather Merchants'' (1989) by Dave Rogers and Barlow; Rogers had previously written several non-fiction books about the series
** Vol. 2 ''The Monster of the Moor'' (1990) by Barlow
** Vol. 3 ''Before the Mast'' (1991). A Tara short story, produced only in photocopied supplement format
** Vol. 4 (1994). Contains two stories, ''Moonlight Express'' and ''The Spoilsports''.
* ''Too Many Targets'', [[John Peel (writer)|John Peel]] and Rogers, 1990.
* ''The Avengers'', Julie Kaewert, 1998 (film novelisation)

A [[short story]] by Peter Leslie entitled "What's a Ghoul Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" appeared in ''The Television Crimebusters Omnibus'', a hardback anthology edited by [[Peter Haining (author)|Peter Haining]], first published by Orion in 1994 (this Steed and Tara story first appeared in the 1969 UK Avengers annual, from Atlas publications). Both of the Macnee/Leslie UK paperback titles were translated and published in Portugal in 1967 as ''Os Vingadores: O Dia Depois De Amanha'' (''Deadline'') and ''Os Vingadores: O Pato Morto'' (''Dead Duck'') by Deaga. All four UK John Garforth Panther book paperbacks were translated and published by Roman in France (1967), a paperback omnibus edition was published in 1998 by Fleuve Noir. Three of the Garforth paperbacks were also translated and published by Heyne in Germany (1967/68) (''Heil Harris!'' was not translated for obvious reasons) and a German hardback omnibus edition of the three titles was published by Lichtenberg (1968), reprinted in paperback by Heyne in 1998. All four titles were also translated and published in the Netherlands by Bruna (1967) and in Chile by Zig-Zag (1968). {{Citation needed|date=August 2014}}