When The Devil's Avenger was published in print in 1954, it was boycotted by Christian groups infuriated by Anton Szandor LaVey's representation of himself as the Devil's emissary on earth, his mocking of churches by calling is organization the Church of Satan, his production of the Black Mass, and his ridiculing of Christian religion and its "God." Scared, book store and news proprietors returned copies of the book to the distributor, which in turn sent the copies to the publisher. The publisher then burned more than 100,000 copies of the book in a debacle reminiscent of mass book burning rituals of the Early Catholics and the Nazis. The new e-book version updates the story. It is twice the size of the original and containts ten times as many illustrations - brilliant, unique illustrations that deserve to be view in full size on a computer monitor.