Surfing Alien

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

This

She Lived In Sin (The Sins of Donna Kenyon) Croydon No. 101R 1954 Cover art by Lou Marchetti Some of these late number Croydons you just never see, this one is a first for me. The story is a reprint of Stork Books No. 6, which may account for the "R" in the numbering This incredible copy is one of my pickups from the LA show that I'm finally getting to re-bagging and cataloguing. I am definitely going to have to do another sale because I can't get my overflow boxes to fit back in the closet anymore

Swamp Hoyden by Jack Woodford and John B. Thompson Uni Book No. 71. Cover art by Saul Levine (Re-used on Whittington's "Cracker Girl") Once you start collecting digests, especially Uni Books and the others with thin cover paper, it becomes a tough itch to scratch This one has it all, high grade, swamps & cleavage. What more could a man ask for ?

While we're still on the re-use subject, I dug back once again to the legendary Doohickamabob thread where he posted literally every Avon/Realistic comic/paperback re-use (starting on page 8) so no one has to go looking or wondering what there was... A fun thread and a great effort on the original poster's part

FTFY

Well, I got GCD to give Johnson his credit (70 years later) it would be nice to see it on the label https://www.comics.org/issue/263278/