OtherEric

Let's give @Comicjack a big hand for those last two covers!

Ah, Super Science Stories. In many ways, a dumping ground for lesser stories big name writers couldn't place elsewhere. Always worth a look, and most issues have a gem hidden, but they can be underwhelming until you figure out what the magazine is like.

There are several new pages, scattered throughout the story rather than a separate chapter. That's assuming you mean this book:

Another Quantrill you can look for, Darwin, with the flip side for completeness's sake:

It's just a wall of text, mostly, with a small single color cameo of the three faces at the top of the front cover.

Today's books. High Heel Homicide, in particular, is just a classic example of a tastefully lurid paperback, isn't it?

Well, I've got complete runs of Two Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, so you can count me among those who appreciate a good war comic. Let's see if I can find a few paperbacks to share as well:

The GCD credits the cover to Sheldon Mayer, which I can see. Although it looks like they credit all the DC Mutt & Jeff covers to him, which I am far more skeptical of.

You've got it!

Oh, and I agree with @grendelbo mostly, 6.0 as is but a C&P would help.

The Shadow book was copyright 1931, since that was the copyright on the original story. It was actually published later, ISFDB says 1933.

It sounds like you do, but since I promised an image when I got home, here's a digest by a paperback anyway:

@Get Marwood & I, any thoughts on this one?

That’s why I love this forum. Most of us never make it past the Frazetta art to go “there’s a synopsis?”

Digest generally refers to trim size in this context. So the Dell 10c books are a rare example of saddle stitched paperbacks rather than digests. Otherwise, most saddle stitched books are digest size but not all (or even most) digests are saddle stitched. I’ll try to get a picture to compare sizes when I get home if nobody beats me to it.

And if my calculations are correct, no less than 75 of those pages contain posts related to the distribution of US published comics in the UK, at least tangentially.

Funny Stuff #5 is almost entirely by Sheldon Mayer: While I have a few others, most of my DC Funny Animal books have Sheldon Mayer stories... I think his stuff was hilarious. (As if my Avatar wasn't a giveaway on that...)

Several of Cain's books appeared in Avon's Murder Mystery Monthly series, which is something of an overlap between pulp digests and paperbacks. The MMM edition of "Double Indemnity" was the first standalone complete edition of the story, it has previously been reprinted in an omnibus with two other stories by Cain.

No, I won't, because I've never actually heard that. However, your comment caused a file mismatch as I pulled this up as the closest match I could find in my brain:

Skippy, not Snippy. And how the heck do I, a Yank, who has never seen the show, and wasn't even alive when it originally aired, know that off the top of my head?

I hadn't, but it's been a minute since I ran into a listing I wanted to save... For me, it's mostly Peter Wheat related books I can't afford, and they don't turn up very often. My only workaround is to suggest "print screen" to get a screenshot can be your friend. Opening the image in a new tab can help. Yay for higher resolution monitors these days, so you can actually get something semi-useful like that, and my apologies if I'm just telling you tricks you already know.

Today's book. This one is a reprint, but it's the only reprint within the Ace D-series I'm aware of where they changed the cover art. I'm assuming its somehow connected to the fact that this is Ace D-339, and Ace D-340 (Solar Lottery), another reprint, has the other half of the D-103 double the image was taken from. I've got a copy of the D-340 on the way as well, so I'll post that when it shows up. I'm including the original cover of the book and the original use of the cover art for comparison:

I had a friend who had over a century of National Geographics complete, I want to say back to 1909 with no gaps, and quite a few earlier issues. They've become slightly harder to find the past decade or so, I think. From roughly 1950-2000, people believed that any house built in the US would collapse if there weren't a minimum of 10 years of National Geographic back issues in the basement, but they apparently finally figured out how to get around that problem.

Saturday Evening Post with the first publication of Heinlein’s “The Green Hills of Earth”. This one is important at the first time a SF writer from the pulps sold a SF story to the slicks.

My only issue of Collier's. First publication of "There Will Come Soft Rains", my favourite Ray Bradbury story.