Barry Sadler as Casca the Eternal Mercenary 1979
by David Lee Guss
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Barry Sadler as Casca the Eternal Mercenary 1979
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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"Casca is a series of paperback novels, and since January 2014, ebooks as well, created and written by author Barry Sadler in 1979. The stories revolve around the life of Casca Rufio Longinus, the soldier in the Roman legions who drove the Holy Lance into the side of Jesus Christ on Golgotha, and (in the novels) who is doomed by Jesus to wander the Earth aimlessly, always as a soldier, until the Second Coming. The character is loosely based on the Longinus legend of Christianity.
Sadler wrote some of the early novels in the series while the others were assigned to ghostwriters. Two subsequent novels (Casca 23: The Liberator and Casca 24: The Defiant) were written by Paul Dengelegi. The current author, Tony Roberts, has written all the novels since 2006, excluding Casca 29: Immortal Dragon and Casca 33: The Outlaw, which were written by Michael B. Goodwin. In April of 2013, "Casca 29: Immortal Dragon" was removed from the list of books on casca.net due to alleged plagiarism, and shortly afterwards his other novel in the series, Casca 33: The Outlaw, was removed for the same reason. There is another story, in the form of an unauthorized audiobook, Casca: The Outcast, which was written by Paul Dengelegi in 2004."
{Note: The Viet Nam pin atop the vintage Nazi cap has been airbrushed out of my photo, which was used by Sadler without my permission. I had gifted Barry with a master 11x14" print of the original as seen in the previous picture in this essay. I only became aware of its use as a virtual identical drawing when I saw the sign in the Nashville book store window. I elected not to confront him at the book signing.}
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March 15th, 2016
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