Darwination

I really like this one (I like the kid and the cashier looking at the camera, besides the pulps/true crimes).  Thought the kid was next to some comics, but no.  Tried to find the Flickr poster for credit but no dice:

Hopefully you can see it better when you click on it, dating around August 41. Pictured, from muh boxes:

That was uncommon.
When Frazetta tried to retain artwork and only sell first printing rights, he was met with resistance for a while. This is a major reason why his output at E.C. was so thin. He began keeping art and rights when he became the "hot new" thing, and everyone wanted him. Like the old saying goes, "sometimes you get the meat, sometimes you get the bone." Print media illustrators were *ahem*, predominantly vegetarian... until Neal and the young Turks came along.  GOD BLESS ...
-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

How droll

I've got Gunnison's Belarski art book at home but haven't looked at it in years.  Looking recently at his pb covers has given me a fresh appreciation.
I dunno about renumeration/resale details for him, as that arrangement could vary by author and publisher on who got to keep the painting and if reprint rights were included.  I like the fact that some artists and authors could juice that system and get paid for all the various formats a painting or story/novel/screenplay might appear in.  If you're getting paid in peanuts, make some peanut butter.

I've got Gunnison's Belarski art book at home but haven't looked at it in years.  Looking recently at his pb covers has given me a fresh appreciation.
I dunno about renumeration/resale details for him, as that arrangement could vary by author and publisher on who got to keep the painting and if reprint rights were included.  I like the fact that some artists and authors could juice that system and get paid for all the various formats a painting or story/novel/screenplay might appear in.  If you're getting paid in peanuts, make some peanut butter.

Newsstand Memories
(edit: This wire rack is probably in a comic store since I just noticed the older bagged comics at the top of photo.)
This newsstand photo from November 1971 brings back fond memories of my first neighborhood newsstand that had an almost identical wire comics rack display. Comics and other magazines were displayed on wire racks on the left and back walls. The porn magazines were in the front but were covered over by another padlocked wire rack so you had to get a clerk to unlock to get access. I snuck a few peeks at the covers of the magazines but they did not hold my interest since I was too young to understand. On the right side was the candy, cigarette and smoke shop and in the back was a small 3 seat barbershop. The dimly lit newsstand was unusual since it had no door front since it was open long hours and was only locked by a flexible metal gate.
Sometimes my dad would buy a newspaper here and I could get a comic. I actually bought one of the comics displayed on this rack and you know what it was? It was Western Kid #2. Of all the cool books I could I have gotten shown here, I chose a Western containing reprints! I was a casual reader and again I was too young to know any better. Things would change as a few years later when many of my classmates were talking about a new store that opened up, a real comic book store that had back issues. And here is where my comics education started by talking with other comic book enthusiasts and going to the comic book store two or more times per week. I became pretty obsessed with comics for a time and sometimes felt enthralled at the sight of so many comics as seemingly depicted by this kid in the photo. (All Hail to Mr Miracle and kneel before the greatness of Jack Kirby!) What else do you think looks good on the rack? Since the store was between school and home, I walked by the store to take a peek to see what was new and I always dropped off my schoolbooks at home first before heading back to the store. There was no need to go to the newsstand any more and it lasted many more years until the building was torn down. After the comic book store opened, the newsstand still sold comics but I don’t think many were sold. The comic book store was named Comics & Comix.

A real nice one from GACollectibles:
 

I felt bad when people were showing war books that I didn't own a single pb, so I picked up an interesting looking one for a read. 
Of course there's a girl on the front , Belarski art.  Originally I thought there was some spotting on the girls legs on this copy, but it's just the painting.

Season for Passion - Lee Manning (Manning Lee Stokes?) (1951.Popular Library 341) cover Belarski
Do excuse my funky image naming system, but I'm go ahead and start including a title for the people that grab images.  I collect a lot of images for my files (if I can't own it, at least I can have a pretty picture) and imagine others do the same.
So, unconfirmed, as this is the only use of the alias I've discovered, but Lee Manning is certainly Manning Lee Stokes who had at least a couple of other romance/intrigue in Korea sort of stories. 
He wrote as Ken Stanton in the late Trojan detective pulps, and wrote noirs under his own name, but comics fans might know him best from this neat little entry at St. John (not my book, I do wish I had a copy tho)

The Case of the Winking Buddha along with It Rhymes With Lust (written by Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller, art by Matt Baker with Ray Osirin inks) often get mentioned as first graphic novels (even if there were other predecessors like Milt Gross' He Done Her Wrong or Lynd Ward woodcut novels and others before that).  The Case of the Winking Buddha has not been scanned, so if anybody has an undercopy for me I'll see the job gets done right and that it gets up at the digital museums ;) Charles Raab art on Buddha. I digress...
Manning Lee Stokes later wrote in the Nick Carter Killmaster series, uncredited, as so many authors have done in building the Nick Carter name.  He also did entries in the John Eagle "Expeditor" series as Paul Edwards, the first eight books in the Richard Blade series as Jeffrey Lord, eleven books as Ken Stanton in the Aquanauts series, romances as Bernice Ludwell, and a fair amount of "sleaze" as Kermit Welles including Gambler's Girl with the stunner Rudy Nappi cover that was posted a few pages back (defo some other good covers on the Welles digests, too).
Season for Passion looks to be a mix of espionage and interracial romance, taboo, perhaps, but also a fact of life for soldiers abroad.  I just discovered a neat series of digests Babysan by Bill Hume via the last Heritage pulps auction (published in Japan) on the subject, though that's a different milieu than Korea.  Anyways, this one looks good. The back cover hook:

I haven't landed this one yet also set in Korea, but it's going on the OUT OF CONTROL pb wantlist, as I can't seem to resist the Chiriacka covers, and this is a good one.

Anyways, on the nightstand this goes.  This is the first of his I've read, and it looks to be a good place to start.

So there is something interesting I forgot to mention about this thing:

When Heritage sold the only copy they have had pass through their doors, their listing stated:
Offered here is a unique Walt Disney produced G. I. guidebook expounding on the evils of propaganda. Donald Duck appears on the cover ... and Tojo, Mussolini, and Hitler make appearances. The book measures 5" x 7.5". A scarce Disney book from the World War II era. We're betting that you wont find many books with both Donald and Hitler together! Not listed in Overstreet. From the John McLaughlin Collection.
Thing is, Heritage betted wrong! To go with the above, I just picked this up off of eBay as well (nicest I've seen - hence my desire to get the set):

I think they'll make a nice and ironic set on the wall of my office.
The irony of "What is Propaganda?" booklet is that Disney was doing more propaganda during WWII than just about anyone else, including Donald Duck cartoons of which this sheet music is from, and the booklet itself had healthy doses of anti-Fascist Germany propaganda (which I am personally very ok with).

This one's brand new to my collection. Dates to 1944. It is the GI Roundtable Education Manual 2:

Back cover:

Anyone have one?  Been looking for a nice copy and snagged this off of eBay. There's a more expensive one in worse shape on eBay if anyone wants this esoteric but cool bit of Disney WWII work.

They sold more in the first place. No mystery there.

Not sure there's a bag that book can't BUST out of.    HELLO!

Outstanding: from one classic French author to another, I just got in this 1949 beauty...

Love Stockton Mulford's blue M as the signature there.  The big faces he was doing in this period are very daring, imo, and he pulled them off to great effect.

Love Stockton Mulford's blue M as the signature there.  The big faces he was doing in this period are very daring, imo, and he pulled them off to great effect.

Yeah, I don't see the non-painted covers on the True Crime mags taking off.  The painted covers, though?   Going nuts right now for the high grade gems c.1950.  I bid on one at more than twice that I'd ever bid last weekend and still came up way short.

I felt bad when people were showing war books that I didn't own a single pb, so I picked up an interesting looking one for a read. 
Of course there's a girl on the front , Belarski art.  Originally I thought there was some spotting on the girls legs on this copy, but it's just the painting.

Season for Passion - Lee Manning (Manning Lee Stokes?) (1951.Popular Library 341) cover Belarski
Do excuse my funky image naming system, but I'm go ahead and start including a title for the people that grab images.  I collect a lot of images for my files (if I can't own it, at least I can have a pretty picture) and imagine others do the same.
So, unconfirmed, as this is the only use of the alias I've discovered, but Lee Manning is certainly Manning Lee Stokes who had at least a couple of other romance/intrigue in Korea sort of stories. 
He wrote as Ken Stanton in the late Trojan detective pulps, and wrote noirs under his own name, but comics fans might know him best from this neat little entry at St. John (not my book, I do wish I had a copy tho)

The Case of the Winking Buddha along with It Rhymes With Lust (written by Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller, art by Matt Baker with Ray Osirin inks) often get mentioned as first graphic novels (even if there were other predecessors like Milt Gross' He Done Her Wrong or Lynd Ward woodcut novels and others before that).  The Case of the Winking Buddha has not been scanned, so if anybody has an undercopy for me I'll see the job gets done right and that it gets up at the digital museums ;) Charles Raab art on Buddha. I digress...
Manning Lee Stokes later wrote in the Nick Carter Killmaster series, uncredited, as so many authors have done in building the Nick Carter name.  He also did entries in the John Eagle "Expeditor" series as Paul Edwards, the first eight books in the Richard Blade series as Jeffrey Lord, eleven books as Ken Stanton in the Aquanauts series, romances as Bernice Ludwell, and a fair amount of "sleaze" as Kermit Welles including Gambler's Girl with the stunner Rudy Nappi cover that was posted a few pages back (defo some other good covers on the Welles digests, too).
Season for Passion looks to be a mix of espionage and interracial romance, taboo, perhaps, but also a fact of life for soldiers abroad.  I just discovered a neat series of digests Babysan by Bill Hume via the last Heritage pulps auction (published in Japan) on the subject, though that's a different milieu than Korea.  Anyways, this one looks good. The back cover hook:

I haven't landed this one yet also set in Korea, but it's going on the OUT OF CONTROL pb wantlist, as I can't seem to resist the Chiriacka covers, and this is a good one.

Anyways, on the nightstand this goes.  This is the first of his I've read, and it looks to be a good place to start.

My rather large late night order wouldn't process because of a non-recognized address, and I'm supposedly getting help from the proprietor.  I suspect half the items in my cart will be gone by the time you jackals beat me to it.

I think I ended up buying your copy!

I went 7 as the absolute highest I thought you can go with rust (so much rust). Replace those staples and call it a reader - for real, though.
That one hurt, but I overgraded everything else, too.  8 points, rough round.

Whoa, went to see if I couldn't find a deeper black image for that Crimson Clown ish I was raving over.  I did find a slightly better copy that was sold last year at Heritage:

Hammer price?
Sold on Apr 13, 2023 for: $13,200.00
Guess I won't be adding this one to my collection any time soon, egad.