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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