The Blonde by Carter Brown

The blonde playgirl knew too much and talked too much. So somebody decided to silence her......permanently.

2 million copies

Lee Manning, filmland Romeo, committed suicide after a Hollywood bash. Or did he? Georgia Brown, babbling blonde, could tell what really happened. But would she? Paula Reid, demon TV interviewer,m was going to spill the facts on her TV show. But could she? Before the story got a chance to sizzle the airwaves, a killer stepped in and stopped George Brown dead. So Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler plays a near fatal role in an underground production of murder.

Signet Editions

When a blonde Hollywood party girl who has been to one too wild brawl too many agrees to tell all on a candid TV show, somebody blows her up before she can name names coast to coast. This leaves  free wheeling California cop, Al Wheeler to pick up the pieces as he treads his way through a labyrinth of beauties ion a hot and heady chase to catch the killer.

Horwitz Edition

Printing History

Horwitz Editions

Numbered Series #67 1958

International Edition #2 1961

International Edition #58 1969

Horwitz Double #5a 1979

New American Library

Signet Books

1st (1565) Nov 1958

2nd (Canada) Dec 1958

3rd (S1972) May 1961

4th (D3297) 1967

Signet Double (E8961) Dec 1979

Signet Double (Canada) 1979

Signet Double (AE1703) Aug 1982

Operation Che Guevara by Jon Messman

A dead guerrilla leader kept strangely alive. Two treacherous and beautiful ladies sharing a deadly secret. And Nick Carter on his most macabre mission

Award Edition

Che Guevara: The legendary hero of Latin America's terrorist guerrillas. A killer, a sadist, a madman or a hero, a saint, or savior...depending on your point of view. The world believes Che Guevara is dead. But Nick Carter Killmaster has reason to believe that the Cuban revolutionary is still alive. Clue #1: Terresina, the long legged peasant girl who makes love with the grandeur of a pampered princess. Clue #2: Yolanda, a wealthy, ice cold beauty who turns into a man eating tigress in bed. One of them can lead Nick to the man called El Garfo, "The Hook" The man could be Che Guevara, Nick must challenge to a blood curdling death duel in the mountains of Bolivia. 

Printing History

Written by Jon Messman

Award Series

1st (A509X) 1969

2nd (A509X) 1970

Tandem Series

1st (unkn) 1970

Reprint (426 4300) 1971

Notes

One of the titles not reprinted much.

Another Corpse by Carter Brown

From Four Square Books in the UK. This August 1966 edition is a photo cover.

The Desired by Carter Brown

Al Wheeler joins forces with a labor leader's luscious daughter in her fight to get an injunction against a killer

1959 Horwitz Edition

When the nation's leading labor boss is subpoenaed to appear before a Senate committee investigating the misuse of union funds, his treasurer shows up dead in the trunk of a car that just missed sending Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler to the morgue. The driver of the car turns out to be the labor leader's tipsy daughter. She convinces Al that she knows nothing about the wayward corpse. Al tried to bargain for all the kisses and she agrees to deliver them on one condition, that Al will clear her father's name. Even if it means signing a death contract for a killer.

Later Horwitz Editions

Robert McGinnis Covers

Barye Phillips Cover

Last Signet Edition

 

 

Printing History

Horwitz Editions

Numbered Series #83 1959

International Edition #15 1962

International Edition #68 1970

International Edition #68 1977

 

Signet Editions

1st (1764) Jan 1960

2nd (Canada)

3rd (D2654) 1965

4th (Canada)

5th (Q5985) 1974

Four Square Edition

#480 April 1966

The Living Death by Jon Messman

A new kind of enemy. A new kind of destruction. As Nick Carter becomes the decoy in a deadly game of biological warfare.

1972 Award Edition

The Target: The best scientific minds in the world.

The Weapon: Secret, undetectable, and always fatal.

Tandem Editions

Seven of the world's most brilliant scientists had suddenly become vegetables. Living dead men whose brains had been butchered by an unknown source. This was a new enemy. Experimenting with germ warfare. Doing its horrifying work with brutal effectiveness. It was Nick Carter's job to find out who was behind this terror. Even if it meant using himself as bait for an unseen opponent whose lethal discoveries might well condemn him to The Living Death. 

Award Editions

As usual Nick Carter was prepared for action and primed to kill, But this time killing was the easy part. The action was something else. It came in the form of an English Blonde, a stacked sexual Italian, and a sultry Swiss packages that could drive any man wild or out of his mind. Or in the case of Nick, give him a definite head start towards certain death. 

Printing History

Written by Jon Messman

Award Series

1st (A496X) Sept 1969

2nd (A922S) Jan 1972

3rd (AN1103) 1973?

4th (AQ1561) March 1976

Charter (unkn) 1981

Tandem Editions

1st (426 4247) 1969/1970

Reprint (unkn) 1971

Reprint (unkn) Dec 1972

Universal Reprint (426 17312) 1977

Notes

Award missed the 3rd printing information in the 4th printing fly sleeve. It looks like the first UK printing was in 1970 as mentioned on the UK copyright page from 1977, but the  US edition mentions a joint 1969 Award/Tandem first printing.

Deadly Miss by Carter Brown

Max Dumas is in Acapulco when is approached by a brunette.  The brunette is Virginia Long and she has a proposition for Max. But before he can accept her offer he is contacted by a Elias Castanello to have Dumas fly some cargo to Ecuador for seventy five thousand pesos. It turns out the cargo is guns. Virginia make an appearance before Max and his sidekick, Benny take off the next morning. She double crosses Castanello by shooting him while taking off. In the end enemies turn out to be allies and a revolution does not happen. Thanks to Max Dumas.

Horwitz Edition

Deadly Miss was published in 1958 by Horwitz Publications and was the 65th entry into the Numbered Series.

The Cobra Kill by Manning Lee Stokes

The high price of dying on an ultra lethal assignment

Early Award Editions

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.

Early Tandem Editions

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.

1974 Award Edition

United States Printing History

Award Books

1st (A495X) 1969

2nd (A924S) 1972

3rd (AN1244) 1974

Universal Reprint

United Kingdom Printing History

Tandem Books

1st (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

Star Edition

Note: The first person perspective became standard with The Cobra Kill

The Lover by Carter Brown

The bearded Prophet might be a phoney but the nude corpse on his alter was very real

1958 Horwitz Edition

The Prophet wore a loincloth and a deep tan. He was the pet of the society set who flipped over his doctrines of sun worship, fertility rites and sacrifices. The religious kick netted him a pretty profit until one of his sun loving followers left an offering on his alter. A very beautiful, very nude and very dead blonde. The corpse sends free wheeling California police Lieutenant Al Wheeler on a whirlwind chase, A chase that brings him into close contact with a torrid blonde, a sizzling brunette, and a cold killer.

New American Library Editions

The Prophet was the guy in the loincloth who was assisted by.....Eloise, the brunette who sent the shrine donations rolling in even faster for........Ralph Bennett, who was the Prophet's business manager. he figured he owed something to.....Charlie Elliot, the lush whose whole world was centered in the nearest unopened bottle and turned up at the party given by........... Stella Gibb, the blonde who loved men. All men except her husband.......Cornelius Gibb, the only sun worshiper who thought the Prophet was a screwball, not like......Edgar Romair, the retired Broadway actor, who could not find an audience in......Peter Pines, the poet whose talents were chained to a faucet sending....Al Wheeler to Candy Logan, the gorgeous brunette widow. She was having trouble with.....Harry Weisman, the sharp man, too sharp for his world.

New English Edition

Printing History

Horwitz Editions

Numbered Series #72 1958

International Edition #3 1960

International Edition #60 1969

Double Edition #6a 1980

New American Editions

Signet #1620 (1st) January 1959

 Signet (2nd Canada) unkn

Signet #2742 (3rd) 1964

New English Editions

Four Square Books #790 1963

Cover by Martelmans

The Lover was first published by Horwitz Publications in 1958 as #72 in the Numbered Series.

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.

Award Editions

A Nightmare Assignment

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. The Human Time Bomb is William Rhodes final Nick Carter adventure.

Tandem Editions

Charter Edition

Printing History

Written by William L Rhodes

Award Edition

1st (A456X) July 1969

2nd (A456X) August 1970

3rd (AQ1474) July 1975

Charter (441-34909) August 1981

Tandem Edition

1st (4167) 1969

Reprint (5426) 1970

Reprint (7405) 1971

Reprint (unkn) Dec 1972

Reprint (426-17320) unkn

Notes

Mr Judas returns yet again

Late Tandem Edition

Cutie Takes The Count by Carter Brown

Sports columnist Ed Hunter is after a follow up story about a boxing event and is involved with a girls murder. The girl was murdered eight hours before and she was carrying his business card. A bribe later and he finds out the murdered girl was connected with his recently written article. In the end, Ed finds the murder but not before he is caught with the oldest gag in the books. Cutie Take The Count was published by Horwitz Publications in 1958 and is the 66th entry in the Numbered Series.

1958 Horwitz Edition