Digests

A through Bi

 

Note: The winner of "The Most Confusing Publisher Award" goes to Atlas Mystery. There were two publishers. (Some collectors believe there were as many as 11, including Bard, Cornell, Gem, Euclid, Hercules, London, Margood, Mohawk, Select and Zenith; but according to Kenneth R. Johnson, all of these non-numbered books were put out by publishing houses owned by Martin Goodman. Click HERE and navigate to the "Publishers" section to learn more.) Vital Publications issued the numbered series. In Ken's on-line book, he lists the order of publication he believes probably occurred for the non-numbered books and which company published them. Below, I've just listed them alphabetically by title.

* NEXT: The "Babysan Books," which I've listed by their titles because they were each printed by different publishers (Kasuga Boeki and Charles E. Tuttle respectively). They were released simultaneously in the U.S. and Tokyo in 1953 and 1954, with appropriate pricing for both countries. (The occupation of Japan ended in 1952.) They are primarily cartoons by Hume, and they would probably be considered politically incorrect by many people today.

AND FINALLY: There's the case of Big Green #5. There are two of them on this page (one is listed as Big Green Detective #5). PLUS, The Little Dog Barked is also listed as Green Publishing Company #5. Ken Johnson says he has noted the Green Publishing "Fox Head" colophon on the back of his copy of Green #5. My copy has the Big Green triangle colophon on the back cover. So it appears there are two different printings of this book.

 

 

Adventure Novel Classic 1
 

2 - Courtesy of Grant Thiessen
 

3
 

4 - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

5
 
 

7
 

8
 

9 - Courtesy of Bill Kelly
 

10
 

11 - Courtesy of Bill Kelly
 
 

12 - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

13 - Courtesy of Bill Kelly
 

14
 

15
 

16
 
 

17
 

18 - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

19
 

20
 

21 - Courtesy of Anonymous
 
 

22 - Courtesy of Bill Kelly
 

23 - Courtesy of Tom Daniels
 

24
 

25 - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

26 - Courtesy of Tom Daniels
 
 

27
 

28
 

29
 

30 - Courtesy of Bob Harper
 

31 - Courtesy of Bill Kelly
 
 

33
 

34 - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

35
 

36 - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

37
 
 

38 - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

39 - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

40
 

41 - Courtesy of Bill Kelly
 

42
 
 

All Picture 1-Courtesy of Graham Holroyd
 

2-Courtesy of Graham Holroyd
 

Amazing Stories (nn)
 

American Library (nn)
 

(nn)
 
 

Ampco (nn) - Courtesy of Hooked on Books
 

back - Courtesy of Hooked on Books
 

Army Romances (nn)
 

Arrow Mystery 5 (nn)
 

6
 
 

7
 

8
 

9 - Courtesy of Victor Berch
 

10 - Courtesy of Victor Berch
 

11
 
 

Artful 1-Courtesy of Graham Holroyd
 

Atlas 1
 

2 - Courtesy of Graham Holroyd
 

2 back - Courtesy of Tom Daniels
 

3 - Courtesy of Victor Berch
 
 

4
 

5 - Courtesy of Graham Holroyd
 

Atlas (nn)
 

(nn) (Atlas Bard)
 

(nn)
 
 

(nn)
 

(nn)
 

(nn) - Courtesy of Bill Kelly
 

(nn)
 

(nn) - Courtesy of Tom Daniels
 
 

(nn) back - Courtesy of Tom Daniels
 

(nn) - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

(nn) - Courtesy of Anonymous
 

(nn) - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

(nn) - Courtesy of Victor Berch
 
 

(nn) - Courtesy of Graham Holroyd
 

(nn) - Courtesy of Graham Holroyd
 

(nn)
 

(nn)
 

Atomic (nn)
 
 

(nn) - Courtesy of Victor Berch
 

(nn) - Courtesy of Victor Berch
 

Award Books (nn) - Courtesy of Joe Holm
 

CL451 (blue) - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

CL603 - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 
 

CL605 - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

Kasuga * (nn)
 

Tuttle * (nn)
 

(nn) back
 

Banner Mystery 1
 
 

2 - Courtesy of Tony Severin
 

2 back - Courtesy of Tony Severin
 

Barmaray (nn) - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

Bart (nn) - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

Best Books 576 - Courtesy of Vernon Baumgartner
 
 

584 - Courtesy of Vernon Baumgartner
 

Best Det Novel of the Month 1 - Courtesy of Victor Berch
 

2 - Courtesy of Bill Kelly
 

Best Det Selection 3 - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

4 - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 
 

5 - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

6 - Courtesy of Gary Stevens
 

(7) - Courtesy of Bob Harper
 

8
 

(nn) (possibly #9)
 
 

nn (10) - Courtesy of Kenneth R. Johnson
 

Bestseller Classic (nn) - Courtesy of Joe Holm
 

Big Green 3
 

4
 

5 - Courtesy of Grant Thiessen
 
 

Big Green Detective 5
 

 

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