Digest art meets The Beacons !

The Beacon Book company had a very long run from the late 50's through the 60's, these Beacon Books are strictly paperback and are not really my field of expertise but thought I would show the Digest covers that I own and their Beacon twin counterparts. Beacon used a lot of original art during the run but on occasion they reverted to older art to sell their product and as we know the racier the cover art the more books that sold !

FALCON DIGEST / BEACON TWINS

Right lets start with some great Falcon Book art given the Beacon treatment !

RAINBOW DIGEST / BEACON TWINS

Here you can see she has gone from painting her nails on the Rainbow book cover to having a drink !

'The Twist' by Falcon and 'Shame' by Beacon art has been reversed (below)

And again 'The Twist' gets twisted on Beacon on 'Four Women' (Bottom right corner below)

UNI DIGEST / BEACON TWINS

 

 Keyhole added to Beacon cover and the gents eye patch has magically gone (must have gone to Spec savers above)

And here again, another 'Keyhole' style art added to Beacon 'Keyhole Peeper' (above)

Below the Slave Ship Captain has been sexed up for the Beacon edition and the slave girl has lost her top but luckily the post has saved her blushes !

QUARTER DIGEST / BEACON TWIN

I own just a single copy from Quarter that has been twinned by Beacon and here it is !

INTIMATE DIGEST / BEACON TWINS

She has gone from a Widow to a Divorcee from Intimate to Beacon (above)!

STALLION DIGEST / BEACON TWIN

You know your woman's gonna cheat when you get replaced by a chair (below)

Below you can see the Ship's Doctor seems to have lost his bag and his arms are in different positions, even the port hole has been covered up !

FIESTA DIGEST / BEACON TWIN

Well that's it, these are all the Digests I own that match with Beacon covers, but there are plenty more out there, you can spot them if you look hard enough, I will keep collecting the Digests and keep matching them with the later Beacons.

Leisure Library

Leisure Library were a short lived digest book company which were published twice monthly (A romance novel then a Crime novel) in New York from 1952 through to 1953 and ran from numbers 1 - 24 . Always great cover art and spicy stories.

Here we go, short run and I only have a few issues but will be adding more over the year.

Let's go for a leisurely stroll round the library 1952  !

Leisure Library Colophon .

Leisure Library 

1 - My Life Is My Own - Jules-Jean Moroc
2 - Death For A Doll. - Spike Morelli

3 - Pick-Up Girl - Roland Vane
4 - Make Mine A Shroud - Michael Storme (George H. Dawson)

Pick-Up Girl # 3 - Art by R. Heade

Make Mine A Shroud # 4 - Art by R. Heade

5 - Hot Dames On Cold Slabs - Michael Strome (George H. Dawson)

Art by Reginald Heade

6 - No Prude - Jules-Jean Moroc
7 - This Way For Hell - Spike Morelli.

This Way For Hell - Art by Reginald Heade.

8 - White Slave Racket - Roland Vane.

9 - Two Smart Dames - Gene Ross
10 - Midnight Sinner - Paul Renin

Art by Reginald Heade

11 - Curtains For Carla - Michael Storme (George H. Dawson)
12 - Bertrand And The Blondes - Jules-Jean Moroc.
13 - Sorry For You Beautiful - Gene Ross
14 - Wedding Night - Paul Renin

Wedding Night - Art by R. Heade

15 - Carmen Was A Virgin - Michael Storme (George H. Dawson)
16 - Amorous Adventouress - Roland Vane
17 - Honey, Hold That Scream - Tony Angelo
18 - She Who Hesitates - Paul Renin

OK, that was 1952 now onto 1953 with the last 6 issues .

19 - A Corpse Spells Danger - Michael Storme (George H. Dawson)

20 - Pagan Interlude - Rosallind Brett
21 - Curves Cause Trouble - Gene Ross
22 - Thou Shalt Not ! - Paul Renin
23 - This Woman Is Death - Michael Storme (George H. Dawson)
24 - White Man's Slave - Mary Clare .

White Man's Slave # 24 Art by R . Heade

Great art by Reginald Heade can be found on most covers in this series and are pretty collectable, some copies like number 13 are near impossible to find . So happy hunting and I hope to add more to my collection over the next year.