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Let's talk about PAN paperbacks, the blog for those that do judge a book by its cover. Main site is at www.tikit.net or www.panfans.club

PAN Fans Club - Let's talk about PAN paperbacks, the blog for those that do judge a book by its cover. Main site is at www.tikit.net or www.panfans.club

Daily Archives: December 23, 2024

Happy Christmas, My Christmas Present to Myself and ‘The Saint in New York’

Wishing all fellow PAN Fans a very Happy Christmas
and successful book hunting in 2025.

A little while ago I was lucky enough to get the original artwork for ten PAN(ther) covers by John Albert Richards (09/01/1915 to 01/07/1964). I justified buying them by saying they were a Christmas present to myself. I thought that a couple had also been used on Bantam titles but thanks to Rog Peyton who pointed out that the Panther covers by Richards were nearly exact copies of the Bantams. To see the covers click HERE

I couldn’t find any Christmas examples of same number, different cover so it will be PAN number 66 ‘The Saint in New York’ this week. Two of the covers are variants by John Pollack and two are variants by artist unknown. The changes over the four years seems to be mainly due to match house styles.