Surfing Alien

It's another "cool" cover - I dunno if the water is cool, but she's getting "cooled off" for sure

Some Friday Fun... If number 3 was "cool" then Mysterious Traveler No. 2 is "Red Hot" Like a Cask of Amontillado

I've been upgrading my copy of this one for many years now and they are notoriously tough to find without bad fading, in addition to usually being heavily creased. My current keeper is the best I've seen. The colors are very bold and the red frame that is usually way off centered is well centered here. This one looks to have been well inked because there is some of the red ink at the bottom of the covers as if it got smudged on the plate when it got inked. Has a little wear on the edges but pretty nice. The cover art is by George Mayers.

The hair costs extra

A cornerstone book in any Vintage Paperback collection Congrats and "Nice Copy"!!!

Incredible colors on this October 1933 Startling Detective. Must have spent the last 90 years on shelves in dark cabinets and closets

That's a killer copy priced cheap. I have a minty set or I'd grab it but someone has to!

Bookery's last guide had them as "somewhat common" but they sure ain't anymore in my experience. Nearly impossible lately. I think anyone who sees them goes squirreling through the interwebs trying to snap up any they can find. All 5 covers are outstanding. Here's number 3. It's kinda "cool" and probably somewhat desirable

I previously posted No. 5 of the Mysterious Traveler with the suwheet Saunders GGA cover. Here's No. 4 with a "Killer" Saunders Good Girl cover...

Ok, I've been exposed, you can stop surveilling my house Jimbo

Ok... here's some actual WWII Golden Age goodness that everyone must own...

Genius !!! You figured me out 🤣🤣🤣

I'm a fan of war books myself

I like Robert Schulz covers...

Wow!

I love it. It's pretty special regardless. I think I've seen Signets hardcover bound like this.

If it fell into my box, I'd take it home

Rudy Nappi painted that killer cover. Like most pb artists, he got paid so little that he did TONS of work from photos and tear sheets, rather than pay models. Amazing what they did with limited resources

One of the highest paid and most prolific paperback cover artists of the Golden Age.

Digest?

Moderns aren't vintage so it's a fair exclusion. We're really talking about 40's-60's although there's a fair amount into the 70's and early 80's with comic book material digests

@moonpool owns a few digests

This too is a nice example of a Digest. This one of the numbered, individual novel type highly prevalent in the 40's - 60's with a suwheet GGA cover of Dr. Wertham engaging in what he engaged in when he wasn't having headlight fantasies about Phantom Lady Digests are easy. I know 'em when I see 'em. These are them

Here's a nice example of a Digest, this one of the periodical type with a suwheet Saunders bondage cover