The Cobra Kill by Manning Lee Stokes

The Cobra Kill

by Manning Lee Stokes

The high price of dying on an ultra lethal assignment

For openers, it cost Nick $10,000 just to find out that his quarry, once the most powerful communist in Indonesia, was hidden in the Malayan jungle. Then there was the added expense of physical energy bedding the nymphomaniacal daughter of Malaysia's top intelligence minister. Just to find out that her information was not nearly enough. Plus the loss of a lot of valuable sleep wondering whether his sultry guide was interested in him for sex or simply to lure him on for the kill. And the closer Nick came to completing the assignment, the surer he was that the ultimate balance would have to be paid with his life.

It took the lure of the wild, bizarre manhunt to get Nick Carter out of Hong Kong and into Malaysia. It took an exotic nymphomaniac to give Nick the information he needed to start his murder mission alive. It took a the savage native seductress to lead Nick through the Malaysian jungle to find his quarry, Lim Yang, the famous Red Cobra. And it took Nick no time to realize he was deep in hot action, deadly coincidences, and enough double crosses to plunge him straight into a death trap.

Bonus Covers

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Series

1st Printing (A495X) 1969

2nd Printing (A924S) 1972

3rd Printing (AN1244) 1974

Tandem Series

1st Printing (426 4239) 1969/1970

Reprint (426 5418) 1971

Reprint (426 7376) Dec 1972

Universal Books

Reprint (426 17355) 1977

Star Books

Reprint (352 30665) 1980, 1981, 1985

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

Temple of Fear by Manning Lee Stokes

Temple Of Fear

by Manning Lee Stokes

Lost: America's top agent on a bizarre assassination assignment.

Found: Fragments of an incredible espionage plot. Targets-United States and Red China.

Reward: The world in flames or peace, depending on who won.

Somewhere in Tokyo's espionage jungle a shocking double cross warned that the plot was underway. America's super secret espionage network, AXE, moved to assign its top operative, Nick Carter to Japan. 

But Nick disappeared. Drugged and kidnapped by the oldest ploy in the book. A beautiful women with a body built for betrayal. And for the first time, Nick finds himself helpless, weaponless, alone, and trapped into helping the enemy. Nick assumes the identity of a man long dead as he hunts for a lovely but lethal double agent through the neon wilderness of Tokyo's Ginza. He matches wits and bullets with the strangest enemy, knowing that one false move could mean a world in flames.

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A367X) Oct 1968

2nd Printing (A629X) Oct 1970

3rd Printing (AQ 1440) March 1975

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

ISBN 80215 X 1978

UK Printings

1st Tandem (?) 1968

Tandem Reprint (426 5805) 1971

Tandem Reprint (426 5805) March 1972

Mission To Venice by Manning Lee Stokes

Mission to Venice

by Manning Lee Stokes

Somewhere in the Adriatic, a missing H bomb triggers a game of global blackmail that Killmaster alone must win

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.

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A228X) 1967

2nd Printing (A632X) 1970

Tandem Books

1st Printing (4260-2671) 1970

Assignment: Israel by Manning Lee Stokes

Assignment: Israel

by Manning Lee Stokes

A Deranged Nazi Killer Out to Destroy the Mideast

He was known as "The Butcher" and he was a former Hitler henchman who was responsible for more murders than any other man alive. Depraved in mind and body, he hungered for men and women with the same insatiable appetite. He was hunted as a war criminal by the Israelis and he lusted for the chance to massacre his enemies. 

A captured Communist document gave the United States the whole story. But finding "The Butcher" and stopping him were something else. Plastic surgery made the first half of the problem impossible while the Arabs' hatred of the Jews choked off the second half. 

The United States was banking on Nick Carter and it supplied him with the most tantalizing helper, a beautiful Israeli agent named Sabra. Sabra had the body of a goddess and the heart of an efficient killing machine. For "The Butcher" a Middle-East holocaust would be a personal victory, but the rest of the world it held a greater meaning. For the Chinese had already started the world towards WW III.

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A260X) 1967

2nd Printing (A260X) 1968

3rd Printing (A635) 1970

4th Printing (A939S) 1972

5th Printing (AN1218) 1973

Tandem Books

1st printing (T154) 1967

2nd Printing (85106-12554-1) 1973

The Filthy Five by Manning Lee Stokes

The Filthy Five

by Manning Lee Stokes

Killmaster uncovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States

A life worth a billion dollars in Chinese gold!

American intelligence had intercepted the message. The Red Chinese were paying one billion dollars to have the US President killed. The money was used to create a super weapon out of five convicted murderers. But the US could not act without proof. This was a mission for only one person, Nick Carter, Killmaster. The nation waited in horror as Nick battled the insurmountable odds. Tortured and a young lady was killed as to avert failure. The assassination plot had to be stopped at all costs, the clock was running out fast.

Four people stood in the way

Dona Lanzos: She was filled with hate for the men who killed her lover. She was more than wiling to use her body as a weapon or revenge.

Harry Crabtree: He hated mankind. He was a sadistic hired killer who got a sickening, terrible kick out of his job.

Malcolm Drake: He could not stop hating his crippled and useless body. Having life and death power over others help to ease the pain. He would torture, betray, and murder for power.

Ramon Ramirez: He was a skilled expert at his work. His work was killing, and Nick was to be his victim.

Printing History

Written by Manning lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A276X) November 1967

2nd Printing (A276X) April 1969

3rd Printing (AQ1415) February 1975

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

ISBN 441 23765-7

1978

Tandem Books

1st printing (T171) 1967

2nd Printing (426-6461-35) 1972

Macao by Manning Lee Stokes

Macao

by Manning Lee Stokes

A Savage Beauty Holds The Key To World Survival

A Time For Death

• The owner of a notorious London sex club is found butchered, his body hacked to pieces....
• Portugal's top agent is gunned down in broad daylight, on a crowded street...…
• A two-bit P.I. from Brooklyn is knifed in the heart, after meddling unwittingly in international espionage....

George Gross Cover

All they had in common was the Princess da Gama, the breathtakingly uniquely depraved creature, Nick Carter's partner in Macao. The Princess was a wild tormented beauty hunter on three continents. The Portuguese wanted to force her into living death. The Red Chinese wanted to turn her into a sex puppet, a helpless pawn in Chicom espionage. The U.S. desperately needed her help. She knew the man whose maniacal whim could start an international holocaust.

Bonus Cover

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A294X) February 1968

2nd Printing (A294X) 1969

3rd Printing (A294X) 1970

4th Printing (A920S) 1976

5th Printing (AN1099) 1972

6th Printing (AN1099) 1973

7th Printing (AN1099) 1974

Tandem Books/Universal Books

1st printing (T179) 1968

2nd Printing (426-12618-1) 1975

3rd Printing (426-12618-1) 1977

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

ISBN 441 51354-9

January 1981

Double Identity by Manning Lee Stokes

Double Identity

by Manning Lee Stokes

Killmaster Hunts His Deadly Double In Tibet

Double Cross

The message over the CIA hotline sent AXE into an uproar. CIA's top man in Tibet had been killed. His dying words had identified his assassin "Nick Carter!" Within hours the real Nick Carter had jumped into Tibet to pick up the trail of his mysterious double. In India the path led through streets thronged with those seeking the fortune offered in reward for Nick's arrest, and on to the remote Pakistani border region where he found the fuse, which once ignited in India, would set off a holocaust that would destroy all the nations of the East

Bonus Cover

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (19411-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A 229F ) 1967

2nd Printing (A 923S) 1972

Tandem Books

1st Printing (T243) 1968

2nd Printing (426 7042 9) 1973

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

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

The Golden Serpent by Manning Lee Stokes

The Golden Serpent

by Manning Lee Stokes

A master plot to flood the U.S. economy with millions of counterfeit money

Armed with only a suicide pill, Nick Carter slips south of the border on a mission to stop the ruin of America's economy by a clever diabolical Chinese plot.

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.

Printing History

 Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Award Books

1st Printing (A 216F ) 1967

2nd Printing (A 386X) 1968

3rd Printing (A 642X) 1970

4th Printing (A 929S) 1972

5th Printing (AN 1102) 1973

6th Printing (AN 1102) 1974

Grenada Publishing Limited

Mayflower Books

Mayflower Printing (2987-8) 1967

Mayflower Reprint (583 11411 3 2) 1969

Mayflower Reprint (583 11411 3 2) 1970 (2)

Mayflower Reprint (583 11411 3 3) 1974

Charter Communications Inc

Charter Books

ISBN 441 29736-6 

August 1979

Dragon Flame by Manning Lee Stokes

Dragon Flame

by Manning Lee Stokes

The Fine Art of General Smuggling

The situation was grave. The Chinese had the border sealed up so tight that a fly could not slip through. On the Hong Kong side the vicious group, Tiger Tong, waited and ready to kill anyone who attempted the Generals rescue. The General was badly wounded and was holed up in a temple not a mile from a thousand Chinese troops. Only a fool would try to cross the border and rescue the General. But the fool was none other than Nick Carter of AXE.

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award/Tandem Books

1st Printing (A173F) May 1966

2nd Printing (A311X) January 1968

3rd Printing (A311X)1969

4th Printing (A311X) 1970

First Tandem Printing 1968

Tandem Reprint (4260 7026 7) 1973

Spy Castle by Manning Lee Stokes

Spy Castle

by Manning Lee Stokes

Britain's top secret group, infiltrated and subvert for world conquests!

A 50 megaton nuclear missile is launched from Scotland and detonates over the North Pole. A terrorist named Pendragon delivers an ultimatum to heads of state in London, Paris, Rome and Bonn. Russia and United States are excluded. The British secret service contacts AXE for assistance.

The missile launch is traced to Blackscape, an island in the Orkney archipelago controlled by Lord Hardesty, the richest man in the world. His objective is to provoke the destruction of Russia. Nick Carter heads to the north coast of Scotland to begin his investigation. He meets Gwen Leith one of two British Special Branch agents assigned to the mission and under his command. 

Publishing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

First Award Printing (A166F) January 1966

Second Award Printing (A289X) September 1967

First Tandem Printing  1966

Second Tandem Printing (T174) September 1967

Third Tandem Printing 1973

Fourth Tandem Printing 1975

Web Of Spies by Manning Lee Stokes

Web Of Spies

by Manning Lee Stokes

Killmaster's most perilous assignment-smash Spain's notorious espionage ring...The Spiders

Somewhere in Spain's Costa Brava a beautiful Englishwoman was being seduced. Alicia Todd was one of the world's scientific brains. She was being persuaded to defect to the East. Nick Carter was somewhere in the area. His orders were the same as the Soviets, win Alicia Todd over or kill her. But there was a third group in the Costa Brava. Die Spinne..The Spinners. They were notorious for smuggling ex-Nazis out of Germany. Alicia Todd was the bait.

Bonus Cover

Publishing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

First Printing (A163F) January 1966

Second Printing (A288X) September 1967

Mayflower-Dell 

First Printing (9441-8) 1967

Second Mayflower Printing 1968

Third Mayflower Printing (583 11393 1 2)1969

Fourth Mayflower Printing (583 11393 1 2) 1970

Fifth Mayflower Printing (583 11393 1 2) 1974

Istanbul by Manning Lee Stokes

Istanbul

by Manning Lee Stokes

Poppies the color of blood make a trail of intrigue and destruction

George Gross Cover

If it had been only opium smuggling across the Turkish Border or the savage murder of a girl named Mija at the notorious Cinema Blue. AXE would had never been involved. But the stakes were very high. Nothing less than the total destruction of the world in World War III. Nick's mission was to kill four men. These men were part of a local murder for hire for the largest drug syndicate in the world. The men, Maurice Defarge, Dr Joseph Six, Carlos Gonzalaz, and Johnny Ruthless.

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

First Printing Oct 1965 (A152F)

Second Printing Aug 1966 (A152)

Third Printing 1968 (A384F)

Fourth Printing 1970 (A640X) 

Fifth Award 1972 (AN1095) 

Sixth Award 1974 (AN1095) 

Tandem Books

First Printing 1968 

(T244)

Second Printing 1971 

ISBN 426 5792

Charter Books

First Printing January 1981 

ISBN 441 37483

The Eyes Of The Tiger by Manning Lee Stokes

The Eyes Of The Tiger

by Manning Lee Stokes

The little room, buried deep in the living rock of the old Schloss, reeked of evil and pain. Rader and his men did not wear black hoods and masks, but the effect was the same, they were torturers...

The young baroness' feet were already anchored to the rack. She was screaming in terror. The curse of the golden statue with the ruby eyes was about to claim another victim.

Nick Carter is given the task of recovering some Nazi loot. This loot is from a Japanese temple that was presented to Adolph Hitler as a token of Axis partnership. As the story goes, the loot lay in a a Swiss bank account protected by a kill on sight order by two hand picked elite SS guards.

Bonus Cover

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp

Conde Nast Publications, Inc

Award Books

1st Printing: September 1965 (A152)

2nd Printing: August 1966 (A152)

3rd Printing: 1969 (A315)

4th Printing: 1970 (A315)

5th Printing 1973 (AN1132)

Charter Books

January 1981

ISBN 441-22407

Mayflower/Dell 

2437

1967

Mayflower Books

113737

1968,1969

ISBN 583 11028

1970,1970,1974

The Eyes Of The Tiger by Manning Lee Stokes

The Eyes Of The Tiger

(Mayflower Edition)

Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Mayflower/Dell

1967

2437-8

A Gross A Day #1

A George Gross (1909-2003) Cover A Day

The Golden Serpent

by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

August 1979

 

The Red Guard (Dutch Edition) by Manning Lee Stokes

De Rode Wacht

Dutch Edition of The Red Guard

Printing History

Written by Manny Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Born NV

Nick Carter #34

1972

D 175

ISBN 90 283 0299

50 Years Ago This Month (September)

50 Years Ago This Month

September 1965

The Eyes Of The Tiger 

by Manning Lee Stokes

Nick Carter is given the task of recovering some Nazi loot. This loot is from a Japanese temple that was presented to Adolph Hitler as a token of Axis partnership. As the story goes, the loot lay in a a Swiss bank account protected by a kill on sight order by two hand picked elite SS guards.

Five desperate people schemed to steal it:

1. Hermann Goering, Reichsmarschall.
2. Max Rader, Hitler's personal aide.
3. Shikoku Hondo, Colonel of Japanese Intelligence.
4. Baroness Elspeth von Stadt, Voluptuous double agent.
5. Nick Carter, AXE agent.

Chamber of Horrors

The little room, buried in the living rock of the old schloss, reeked of evil and pain. Rader and his men did not wear black hoods and masks, but the effect was the same. They were torturers. The young baroness' feet were already anchored to the rack. She was screaming with terror. The curse of the gold statue with the ruby eyes was about to claim another victim......

George Gross Cover

 Printing History

Written by Manning Lee Stokes (1911-1976)

Universal Publishing And Distributing Corp
Award Books

A152F (September 1965)

A152F (August 1966)

A315X (1969)

AN1132 (1973)

Charter Books

ISBN 441 22407

January 1981

Mayflower Books

1967

ISBN 583 11028 

1970, 1970, 1974