Lancer Books
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Lancer Books was a publisher of paperback books founded by Irwin Stein and Walter Zacharius that operated from 1961 through 1973. While it published stories of a number of genres, it was noted most fo
Cover of Ted White's Phoenix Prime (Lancer Books, 1966), illustrated by Frank Frazetta.
Ace Books
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Ace Books is a publisher of science fiction and fantasy books founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn. It began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns, and soon branched out into othe
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…liberation of Paris. In the 1940s and 50s he worked with Macfadden Publications, for magazines like True Confessions and True Story. Later, he moved to Ace Books, where he helped publisher A. A. Wyn create the Ace Double Novels line of paperbacks. After working for a Chicago newspaper, in 1949 Irwin Stein returned…
Ace Double D-36, Robert E. Howard's Conan the Conqueror. The novel on the reverse side was Leigh Brackett's The Sword of Rhiannon. Cover by Norman Saunders.
Joanna Russ's And Chaos Died (1970), from the first Ace Science Fiction Special series. Cover by Leo and Diane Dillon.