The Devil's Cockpit by Manning Lee Stokes

Mona McCall: A beautiful ex-Hollywood star and sex darling of the Western World was lending her fame and figure to a Red Chinese pornographic propaganda mill and was lashing America's reputation to a burning stake.

Micheal Blackstone: American director and communist. He willingly betrayed his homeland and spilled coils of vileness from his films.

Pamela Martin: English, has the makings for a very deadly spy except that she has been picked for pornographic stardom or else.

Somewhere in the dark streets of Budapest, a pornographic mill was churning out films that proclaimed the hideous decadence of American Imperialism.  This assignment takes Nick Carter on a steamy tour of Eastern Europe in search of Blackstone and Mona McCall. Ms Martin is his would be assistant, a half hustler, half spy.

First and Second Printing

Printing History

1st Award Printing (A238X) 1967

1st Tandem Printing 1967

2nd Award (A238X) 1968

3rd Award Printing (?) 1970?

Tandem Reprint (4260 6488 7) 1972

Ace/Charter Reprint (441 14298-2) August 1979

Tandem Reprint

 

Ace/Charter Edition 1979

Hi-Fi Fadeout by Carter Brown

Hi-Fi Fadeout was published in 1958 and features character Mike Beck. Mike is a DJ fora top rated radio show called The Midnight Rocket to Fame. A fellow DJ is in competition with him. Her show happens to follow his and his boss wanted Mike to make friends with her. He leaves her dead in his car and is the prime suspect in her murder.Everyone is against Mike, even the redhead who persuaded him to play her record with a gun. Then there are the thugs and three pretty young ladies  on him all the time. So Lt. Voss offers protection in the shape of brunette Officer Regan. Hi-Fi Fadeout is number 70 in the Numbered Series published by Horwitz Publications.

The Eve Of His Dying by Carter Brown

Our main character is on the run is given the opportunity to hide in a quiet health camp. This health camp is run by a guy name Adam and his girlfriend, Eve. Did I mention the camp was a nudist camp? Everything is going to plan until a corpse turns up and then another. Then there is a person shooting at our hero. He would have left if he had a better chance of living on the other side. Our hero is none other than Terry Tomlin and he is the vital witness in a murder case and is a well known radio personality. The Eve Of His Dying was published by Horwitz Publications in 1956. This title was 32nd entry in the Numbered Series.

Double Identity by Manning Lee Stokes

Double Identity was published at the same time as Mission To Venice. The CIA message put AXE in an uproar. Their top agent in Tibet was killed and his dying words identified his assassin: "Nick Carter". The briefing was short and to the point. A fake Killmaster in the Far East meant something was brewing. The lure of a trap made this mission the up most importance and needed to be settled fast. Within hours, Nick was in Tibet to pick up the trail of his double. In India the trail led through the streets with those who seek the reward for Nick's arrest.  The next stop was in the Pakistani border where he found the fuse that could set off a holocaust that would destroy all the nations in the Far East.

Printing History

1st Award (A229X) 1967

1st Tandem (T 243) 1968

2nd Award (A923S) 1972

Tandem Reprint (4260 7042 9) 1973 Printed in France

Charter Special Bonus Edition (W/ Strike Of The Hawk) January 1980

Award Edition                                          Tandem Edition

Award 2nd Printing

  

Tandem Reprint

Charter Bonus Edition

Mission To Venice by Manning Lee Stokes

The US has lost an H-bomb over the Adriatic. This bomb was a lure for a game of global blackmail with the lives of thousands as well as the United States prestige. Everything is riding on Nick's mission to Venice, he has no help but a notorious courtesan. Vanni Manfrinto, the head of Yugoslavian Intelligence, is a hunted man. But a lady of beauty and morals of Princess de Verizone could be allowed satisfy the insatiable lust of Vanni. There was more to lust for Manfrinto, as Nick would discover in one encounter to another. Nothing in Nick's training could he be prepared for the brutal carnage he was forced to inflict in order to prevent the bomb from falling into the wrong hands. Mission To Venice is the 21st Killmaster novel and is Stokes' seventh Nick Carter adventure.

2nd Award Printing                                          Tandem Printing

 Printing History

1st Award (A228X) 1967

2nd Award (A632X) 1970

1st Tandem (4260 2671 3) 1970

Last Note For A Lovely by Carter Brown

She was a thrush with a throaty voice. Carl Vesper, jazz critic of the magazine Offbeat, stumbles across her body and later she makes an appearance on stage. So who is more surprised, her murdered or Carl?  Then Carl gets news from the Police that Toots Yabach was killed in a car accident. Carl had his hands full with a corpse that was killed twice. Last Note For A Lovely was published in 1957 by Horwitz Publications.

Model Of No Virtue by Carter Brown

Another Carter Brown novel. Model of No Virtue in the 27th entry in the Numbered Series published by Horwitz Publications in 1956. This title was originally titled as the novelette Rope For A Redhead from 1953. Cloe was very rich and had the body worthy of a bodyguard. Somebody was threatening her with bodily harm and all the clues point to her crazy sister Lucilla. The main character, Tony Barr, has Lucilla as the bad lady until she is murdered. Texas is the place for the circus, Cleo's Circus. A circus of murder labeled by Cynthia Wardrope. Finding the villain was a task onto itself, with names like Dale Cannon, Lee Brogan, Esther Coates. Which one had it out for Cleo?

The Lady Has No Convictions by Carter Brown

Whitney Kent is the main character in this Carter Brown novel. His father owns Kent Aircraft. They manufacture a jet for the airforce called the F-92X. There is a slight problem with the aircraft, it goes up just fine but comes down even faster. Whitney was set to find out what is wrong with the F-92X. Seems he crashed the prototype while not sober, and was blamed for it.  So there are three choices: sabotage, bugs, or Whitney is a jinx. The Lady Has No Convictions was published in 1956 by Horwitz Publications and was Number 20 in the Numbered Series.

The Golden Serpent by Manning Lee Stokes

A master plot to flood the U.S.economy with millions of counterfeit money.  The Golden Serpent was published concurrently with The Weapon Of Night in 1967 and was written by Manning Lee Stokes. Take a Mexican political party that demands the territorial return of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Add a Chinese paper factory exporting a fine engraver's five dollar portrait of Abe Lincoln. Stir with a countess who's made a fortune in cosmetics and is running a strange little kingdom deep in the Mexican jungle.  Mix in the CIA and AXE, prickling each other's sensitivities while the nation and the highest men in government are stumped to stop the ruin of the American economy. Suddenly the meeting between the CIA and Mr Hawk, the ingredients are mixed together into a little pill handed to Nick Carter. The instructions were very clear, straighten things out or swallow the deadly pill.

1967 printing                                         1968 printing

11 million mark                                        12 million mark

1974 reprint                                               Charter reprint

Printing History

1st Award Printing (A 216F ) 1967

2nd Award Printing (A 386X) 1968

3rd Award Printing (A 642X) 1970

4th Award Printing (A 929S) 1972

5th Award Printing (AN 1102) 1972?

6th Award Printing (AN 1102) 19??

Mayflower Printing (2987-8) 1967

Mayflower Reprint (583 11411 3 2) 1969

Mayflower Reprint (583 11411 3 2) 1970

Mayflower Reprint (583 11411 3 3) 1974

Ace Charter Reprint (441 29736-6) August 1979

Notes: As one can see Award done a terrible job on this title. They used the same book cover on the 4th through the 6th printings. I do have scans of the Mayflower printings, but they are way too racy and show too much of the female anatomy.  The Ace Charter edition features the George Gross art work. Gross painted the majority of the Nick Carter titles published from 1978 until the end of the series in 1990.

The Weapon Of Night by Valerie Moolman

The last Nick Carter adventure written by Valerie Moolman was titled The Weapon of Night. Weapon of Night brings three foreign agents to America to help Night Carter battle a diabolical plot by Nick's arch enemy Mr Judas. The blackout of November 1965 set the stage, an eight state power outage. that led  The United States  to become the easiest target to render it totally helpless. Now was the time to revisit the rolling blackouts, the strange lights in the sky, and the dreaded stinging smog. Hakim Sadek, the Egyptian criminologist from Safari For Spies. Valentina Sichikova, Russian agent, from The 13th Spy. And Julie Baron, OCI agent, from Run Spy Run and  Fraulein Spy. These three agents help Nick as he goes to take down Judas and his band of "night crawlers"

Scanned Covers

First Printing                                                Second Printing

Third Printing                                               1974 Printing

Mayflower Reprint                                     Charter Reprint

Printing History

1st Award (A 215F ) 1967

2nd Award (A 385X) 1968

3rd Award (A 641X) 1970

4th Award (AN 1094) 1972

5th Award (AN 1094) 1974

Mayflower (583 11327 3 2) 1968

Mayflower Reprint (583 11327 3 2) 1970

Mayflower Reprint (583 11327 3 2) 1974

Ace Charter Reprint (441 87635-8) August 1979