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I was curious to see if James Hadley Chase was still being reprinted, and if so, what titles and cover art was used. Twelve "Chinamen" and a Woman is still in print, as a two-fer with No Orchids for Miss Blandish. The less said about the cover art, the better. Is Chase worth reading? He's got a lot of promising titles. Since he's English, I'm inclined to think he's too polite to be hardboiled.

Nice. For Wodehouse's early USA pbs, I was only aware of Dell's "Code of the Woosters" with the mapback. Good to know there's more with painted covers.

Now you're talkin'!

The guy's facial expression ... How many early Avons have photo covers? These must not have sold much, explaining why they soon went to all painted covers.

Do you have the Harlequin version of the infamous "Twelve Asian Men and a Woman"?

Victorian hand-engraved lettering at its finest. Those are lovely.

I guess the fantasy is that women will look and dress like this in the future?

What a great cover. Artist unknown?

The lady's face sure looks like a Matt Baker face. Is this an Iger Shop book?

This sure looks like early Feldstein inks.

Yes, but kids also had very little money after buying comic books, so there wasn't much point in advertising to them. Come to think of it, ads in comics in general seem pretty pointless, unless the publishers could somehow convince the advertiser that a certain percentage of adults either did read comics or at least glanced at them.

The Marvel/Atlas covers from 1949 are so weird. It's a shame so little is known about the artists.

Great article. I especially enjoyed the insight that the older comic book collectors c.1960 valued the comic strip reprints more than superhero books, and even priced the Flash Gordon Feature Books higher than Superman #1.

What kind of hooded, axe-wielding maniac walks around barefooted? Come on...

Matt Fox is so weird he makes Basil Wolverton look normal.

The Hobbit is a bit out of place in this lurid GGA pulp extravaganza. Tolkein definitely would not approve!

Two of the greatest characters ever. The love-hate relationship Segar explored between Popeye and Wimpy is comic strip narration at its finest.

I dislike Ikea because it's so generic, but who can afford to pay $2,000+ for a well-made bookcase with glass doors? Not me. I saw somebody on YouTube who bought a house with a long row of glass bookcases built into the wall. The person selling the house apologized to the buyer, saying that they could redo the wall if the buyer wanted, since the seller could not imagine a new buyer wanting the bookcases. The buyer acted real resigned and said something like, leave them in, we might be able to use them for something. Acted disappointed. Inside, the buyer was absolutely elated, since his wife was a bibliophile with tons of books.

Man that looks great!

I'll call it right now. Russ Heath is the undisputed king of war covers.

I guess the days when this could be had for $1,000 (not that long ago) are gone forever?

Who is the cover artist?

No mass market paperback is rare, but these are becoming uncommon in very fine condition. The original readers were not bibliophiles, so most existing copies found today are worn, wrinkled and damaged.

These are Ann Cantor covers, no?

I immediately went to ABE Books hoping to find a copy of this for sale. No such luck, but I did find a 2020 reprint. I had no idea that people were still repacking these old books in new covers. Alas, the great painted covers have long since been replaced by photographs. Yawn.