The Sea Trap by Jon Messman

The Sea Trap

by Jon Messman

A crazed scientist challenges Nick Carter to a death duel at the bottom of the sea

A monster weapon hidden at the bottom of the sea: It could destroy nuclear subs as if they were children's toys. It had already crushed four subs with their crews trapped inside.

A brilliant scientist with an insane sexual obsession: He would work for anyone so long as they gave him a never ending supply of virgins to debauch.

An island stronghold guarded by a string of hard-core convicts: It held an opulent palace from which a madman issued an ultimatum. The World in his grasp or the simultaneous destruction of every American nuclear sub!

It was an incredible, fantastic, and bizarre threat. But too possible to ignore. The United States assigned its super-secret espionage network, AXE, and their top operative, Nick Carter, to hand the assignment. It turned out to be a Top-Priority manhunt for his arch enemy Mr Judas. Nick had to beware of Judas' personal bodyguard. A giant Mongol programmed to kill on sight. And a harem of lovely young ladies kept on drugs. All this and destroy an undersea arsenal used against intruders.

Bonus Covers

Printing History

Written by Jon Messman (1920-2004)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Series

1st Printing (A442X) 1969

2nd Printing (A648X) 1970

3rd Printing (A921S) 1972

Tandem Series

1st Printing(7317) 1970

Reprint (7317) 1971

Reprint (426 7317) Dec 1972

Star (426 7317) 1979

Berlin by Jon Messman

Berlin

by Jon Messman

A beautiful woman is Nick Carter's only lead in the hunt for a "new" Hitler, 

ready to seize power again.

The first man knew too much. So they shattered his body in a thousand pieces before he could give a shred of information.

The second man lived in terror. Death had pursued him through a lifetime devoted to espionage. When they pumped a bullet through his throat, he was not even surprised.

The third man was a lot tougher to knock off. His name was Nick Carter and he was ordered to pursue the assignment that had killed the other two.

This time around, Nick Carter had to destroy the fanatic leader of Germany's neo-Nazi underground. A man wearing a known and trusted face. And hell bent on becoming the next Fuehrer. For Nick the assignment begins with a blonde doing a strip-tease in a bedroom of an ancient castle on the Rhine.

Sex, money, and death were closely linked in this Nick Carter assignment.

Sex meant Helga, the beautiful blond Nick fished out of the Rhine more dead than alive.

Money, billions of dollars, fueled the activities of the neo-Nazis. But whose money? Who was spending a fortune to help another Fuehrer grab power in Germany?

Death ended the careers of two US agents. And it followed Nick relentlessly from the minute he arrived. From the back alleys of East Berlin to a stinking dungeon hidden somewhere in West Germany.

Printing History

Written by Jon Messman (1920-2004)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A455X) 1969

2nd Printing (A455X) 1970

3rd Printing (AQ1604) 1976

.Tandem Books

1st Printing (426 4159) 1969

Reprint (426 5442) 1971

Reprint (426 7456) December 1972

Reprint (42617363) 1976 

The Human Time Bomb by William L Rhodes

The Human Time Bomb

by William L Rhodes

Nick Carter faces the most bizarre enemy of his career. 

A powerful army of men and women who are neither dead nor alive.

Something strange was going on at the Reed-Farben chemical plant. Something that threatened the United States' entire defense system, something evil. No one outside knew what it was. And if they, did they would not talk. And if they talked, they did not live long. If AXE did not have answers soon, it would be too late. That is when Nick Carter moved in: on a mountain girl with the right connections, on a beautiful Germany scientist with highly classified secrets, on an impossible mission where violence and murder were standard operating procedure and the horrible resemblance between persons living and dead was everything buy coincidental. Nick is to match wits with his arch enemy, Mr Judas.

Bonus Covers

Printing History

Written by William L Rhodes

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Edition

1st Printing (A456X) July 1969

2nd Printing (A456X) August 1970

3rd Printing (AQ1474) July 1975

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

 (441-34909) August 1981

Tandem Edition

1st (4167) 1969

Reprint (5426) 1970

Reprint (7405) 1971

Reprint (7405) Dec 1972

Reprint (426-17320) 1976

The Red Rays by Manning Lee Stokes

The Red Rays

by Manning Lee Stokes

Somewhere in the world a powerful transmitter was broadcasting a savory blend of Communist propaganda and pornography. 

It was impossible, but it happened. The headlines in the world's press told the facts:

Massive Blackout of World TV, 

All Channels Interdicted 

by Red Propaganda, 

President Urges Calm

George Gross Cover

So AXE got the job of wiping out the transmitter and the man to do it was Nick Carter. The trouble was that Nick had not counted on running into a Hollywood love goddess out for extra special kicks, or a beautiful blonde revolutionary out for his blood. And they were the least of the cards stacked against him. The assignment started out in a Hollywood costume party near Malibu Beach and all Nick had to do is pick up some information from a blond in a Peter Pan costume. For openers, the assignment seemed simple until Malibu turned into never-never land with the help of a Red nerve gas. Nick then finds himself lying to a half naked girl. Though bound and drugged, he recognized he was being framed as a rapist for his own execution.

Bonus Covers

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A423X) 1969

2nd Printing (A423X) 1970

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

ISBN 441-71114-3 September 1981

UK Printings

Tandem Books

1st Printing (3666) 1969

Reprint 1972

Reprint (7392) December 1972

Reprint (17435) 1976

Bid The Baby Bye-Bye by Carter Brown

Bid The Baby Bye-Bye

by Carter Brown

Steve Morgan is sent to Wakeville to pay off a blackmailer. Wakeville was a nice, quiet, and friendly small town until he picked up the blonde. She shows him the sites of the town but forgot to tell him about her boyfriend. The boyfriend was a bad tempered giant. Then the original guy disappears and Steve finds a corpse in his hotel room. The local law decides he is the murderer until a smart layer springs Morgan right into trouble. The trouble is the silver blonde journalist whose figure is news all year round. Now if Morgan can stay alive....

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications

Novel Series #26

October 1956

Second Collectors' Series

w/Sinsation Sadie

Volume 1 #24

April 1959

Murder Is A Broad by Carter Brown

Murder Is A Broad

by Carter Brown

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications

Novelette Series

1953

Curtains For a Chorine by Carter Brown

Curtains For a Chorine

by Carter Brown

Al Burlington dealt in gags. But the stripper's corpse was real.....

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications, Inc

Novel Series 1955

Second Collectors' Series Volume 1 No 3

w/Homicide Hoyden July 1957

Reprint By Demand Series #31 November 1960

Angel by Carter Brown

Angel

by Carter Brown

 

Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler meets a blonde tease whose good-luck charms are murder!

Grant Roberts Cover

Angel was 100% female, she was the answer to every mans dream. Beside her, even Venus took second place. One minute with Angel and Al Wheeler actually found himself enjoying the fact he had been sent to check out a routine traffic complaint. Five minutes with Angel and Al knew he was in for the right place, at the right time, with the right girl. Because in those five minutes, Wheeler had become a witness to murder.

When unorthodox cop Al Wheeler goes investigating a complaint about the dangerous skylarks of ex-Air Force heroes, the situation suddenly explodes into a baffling murder case.

Joy Ride to Death

The murder victim was the wrong man. The ex-jet flier took up the plane out of turn. And because he did, he died out of turn. All the evidence there was disintegrated in mid-air with the exploding plane. The mourners included six prime suspects: Three other ex-jet jockeys, ex-buddies of the murderer man, an airplane mechanic with a grudge, and two delectable dolls, one of whom was the intended victim's wife, the other his current "girl of the week".

Bonus Cover

Robert McGinnis Cover

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications

Numbered Series #97 January 1962

International Edition Series #33 July 1963

Double Edition Series #10A 1981

New American Library

Signet Books

S2094 March 1962

D3413 1969

AE1027 September 1981

Back In The Real World by Marvin Albert

Back In The Real World

by Marvin Albert

Starring Pete Sawyer in a stylish mystery of high fashion and the lowest of crimes....

When Pete drops by his friend Frank Crowley's house one evening, neither Crowley nor his wife Nathalie is home. instead, he finds two dead bodies, and he recognizes them both. One is a rival private eye. The other is Nathalie's gorgeous sister in-law, Anna-Marie. Both naked with bullet holes in their heads. Where the two having an affair? Is there a connection between the two murders and the recent goings on at the prestigious couture house where Ann-Marie was a star designer? Pete must keeps his wits about him and his gun in hand to solve this stylish mystery and keep his friend Crowley out of jail.

Printing History

Written by Marvin Albert (1924-1996)

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

449 12917

December 1986

Carnival For Killing by Jon Messman

Carnival For Killing

by Jon Messman

Fidel Castro's monstrous plan, murder on a mass scale!

George Gross Cover

At Midnight, February 14th....In the black wilderness of Brazil's vast Mountains of the Sea, a man waited patiently for an execution. Within minutes he would kill the unsuspecting American who thought him  a trusted ally.

At Midnight, February 14th....On a rain splattered superhighway leading to NYC, a blond youth stared into the headlights of an onrushing car. In all the world only the boy could give warning of the impending holocaust that would end untold lives.

At Midnight, February 14th....In a luxurious bedroom on Manhattan's posh East Side, a beautiful girl watched as Nick Carter take off his clothes. she was already ready in bed, waiting, and smiling.

Neither of them knew they were about to begin Phase One of a fantastic espionage plot devised by Fidel Castro's master spy.

Nick Carter hurries to Rio to assist industrialist Todd Denison, whose life has been threatened. But before Nick can arrive, Todd turns up dead. The death appears accidental, until Nick proves it was murder. A search for the killers involves Nick, Todd's pretty widow, and his secretary Maria Hawes. Maria informs Nick that Todd had many enemies who were trying to prevent his building a new plant in the mountains that would raise wages and living standards for the local population. When Nick is attacked, extremist leader Rojadas is implicated. Is Rojadas a friend or foe? Is he behind the planned mass murders. The assassinations were timed to occur during the Carnival in Rio. Thousands would die in minutes.

Printing History

Written by Jon Messman (1920-2004)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st (A406X) 1969

2nd (A644X) 1970

3rd (A938S) 1972

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

ISBN 441-09173-3 Oct 1981

UK Printings

Tandem Books

1st Printing (3658) 1969

Reprint (426 7018) 1973

14 Seconds To Hell by Jon Messman

14 Seconds to Hell

by Jon Messman

The deranged master of Peking's death factory plots to destroy both the U.S. and Russia...on voice command...…..Only one man can stop him!

Mort Kunstler cover

The death factory was somewhere in a carefully hidden corner of China. It sheltered Peking's gigantic nuclear arsenal. Its master was a crazed genius whose hatred was fanned by an amoral, corrupt, breathtakingly beautiful woman. He rigged the bombs to explode on voice command. The targets were the United States and Russia. Nick Carter's mission was direct and impossible. Penetrate the core of Red China and destroy the site. He also had to betray the two agents without whom he could not complete the assignment. The sensual blonde twins sent by the KGB to help Nick. Leave them behind to die in withering agony.

Bonus Covers

Printing History

Written by Jon Messman (1920-2004)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A376X) November 1968

2nd Printing (A637X) September 1970

3rd Printing (A927S) January 1972

4th Printing (AQ1448) April 1975

UK Printings

Tandem Books

1st Printing (3578) 1968

Reprint 1971

Reprint (5944) June 1972

The Defector by George Snyder

The Defector

by George Snyder

Nick Carter must obey the whims of a beautiful, sadistic enemy spy to stop the traitor who could blow the U.S. sky high!

The theft of the deadly formula.

The school for Red spies.

The army of man eating rats.

The exotic house of pleasure.

The diamond dagger caked with blood.

The hidden pellet of cyanide.

All of them played a vital part of Nick Carter's latest assignment. Prevent a top American scientist from defecting to China. Nick had only one lead, a beautiful women with a special fondness for sex spiced with savagery. 

The scene was Hong Kong. 

The mission was to find Professor Loo, whose scientific knowledge could give the Red Chinese protection against any nuclear attack. Nick battles strange enemies, the threatening Chin Ossa and the beautiful Sheila Kwan.

Bonus Covers

Printing History

Written by George Snyder 

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A405X) 1969

2nd Printing (A643X) 1970

3rd Printing (A925S) 1972

4th Printing AN1264) 1974

UK Printings

Tandem Books

1st Printing (3631) 1969

Reprint (5469) 1971

Reprint (5469) March 1972

Reprint (426 17398) 1977

Star Books

1st Printing (352 30483) 1979

Reprint (352 30483) 1981

Baby, You're Guilt-Edged by Carter Brown

Baby, You're Guilt-Edged

by Carter Brown

There were two of them in the police car and one look at the accident was enough. The guy who had been driving needed a preacher, not an ambulance. A routine assignment for a cop, or so Dave Gault thought, but the cop who had been in the police car with him ended up dead that night. A week later, he ended up in the pen with a two to five stretch which showed Dave was a cop with different ambitions anyway. Then his wife disappeared and he figured the pen could get along without him. That was when Dave met Lorraine, the girl who fixed the bullet hole in his shoulder amongst other things. The rest of the problem was simple, all he had to do was find out how he was framed and who did it. And find out why that envelope was worth as much as it seemed to be. Didn't he mention the envelope? That was what started the whole trouble...…

Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)

Horwitz Publications Inc.

Numbered Series #19 July 1956

Second Collectors' Series Volume 1 #22 (February 1959)

w/Pagan Perilous