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SPYNOSAUR

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Full Name: Spynosaur
Nationality: Canadian
Organization: Department 6
Occupation Agent

Creator: Guy Bass
Time Span: 2016 - 2018

ABOUT THE SERIES

Agent Gambit, now known as Spynosaur, is an agent with Department 6.

Okay, there is some major league explaining needed here. Let's start with Department 6. It is a (we think) Canadian spy organization led by Agent M11, former known as A12, a pretty gruff old fellow who apparently did not have much use for Agent Gambit back before he became, well, something else and now that Gambit is that something else, well, the always annoyed Director is even more always annoyed. Okay, that is not much but that is what we know.

Now, on to the Spynosaur part. The intro to the first recorded adventure we have tells us: "When top spy-entists [their words, not mine!] put the mind of super-spy Agent Gambit inside the body of a dinosaur, they created the first ever Super Secret Agent Dinosaur. Together with his daughter, Amber, this prehistoric hero protects the world from villainy. His codename: Spynosaur."

We are even given a cute little ditty: "When criminals conspire and the world is on the brink, this dino-mighty hero doesn't mind that he's extinct".

Well, maybe that just made things more complicated. 

How about this? Agent Gambit was a man who gets his brain zapped into a dinosaur that is brought back to life and ... nope, that is not working either.

Let's try this. Agent Gambit is now a anthropomorphized dinosaur who still wants to save the world now and then from bad guys and has the help of his pre-teen daughter, Amber, to do it even though Amber's mom does not know about all this world-saving and 'hey, did you know Dad's a dinosaur?' stuff. Best I could do! Apparently as far as Mom is concerned, Dad was a traveling peanut butter salesman who died in an accident so now it is just her and Amber. Except Amber is a super-spy-in-training who knows that Dad is still alive, albeit now in the body of a resurrected dinosaur who still loves to fight bad guys around the world.

When we meet Spynosaur, he is described as a "scaly, green Deinonychus measured a full nine feet from head to tail, with huge claws on his hands and feet, a long, broad head and a wide mouth filled with razor-sharp teeth. He wore a sleek spy-suit, with a silver pistol tucked into a shoulder holster." Definitely not your typical dinosaur! Or your typical super-spy.

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

Number of Books:4
First Appearance:2016
Last Appearance:2018

1 Spynosaur Spynosaur
Written by Guy Bass
Copyright: 2016

"When he and his sidekick daughter Amber are sent to rescue a captured fellow agent, Spynosaur becomes embroiled in a plot to frame him. Can he and Amber clear his name in time to save the world?"
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2 Vs Goldenclaw Vs Goldenclaw
Written by Guy Bass
Copyright: 2017

With Spynosaur now bored after catching all the interesting villains, Amber decides to help spark his interest by convincing not-so-evil Goldentoe to up his game. She uses the Science Ray on him and accidentally turns him into the really bad Goldenclaw!
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3 The Spy's the Limit The Spy's the Limit
Written by Guy Bass
Copyright: 2017

Heading to the Arctic Circle to investigate a distress beacon, Spynosaur, along with Amber, discover his long-lost father, super-spy Abner Gambit. They work together to finish the father's missing - the Purple Spyder and his device for predicting the future.

4 No More Mr Nice Spy! No More Mr Nice Spy!
Written by Guy Bass
Copyright: 2018

Accused the eating Pugsy Malone, the prized pet of a Canadian princess, Spynosaur is now being hunted by his former agents, Danger Monkey, Dr Newfangle, and expert tracker Jet Setter, as he and Amber try to prove he was framed.
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MY COMMENTS

Um, I am ... well, um.

If I were 7 - 9 years old, I might have appreciated this series more than this 71-year old fellow that I am. But hey, it is illustrated nicely so there are pretty pictures to look at.

For the target audience, this would still be a very silly, totally crazy concept which is not the least bit explained in ways that make any sense - and it would certainly work for young readers who want to be entertained and who are able to just ignore the whole 'put Dad's brain in a dinosaur body' thing.

GRADE

My Grade: B-

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