Just a quick note to say “Thank you” to all those who sent me messages of congratulations on obtaining the final title that I was missing from the 2,391 published by PAN between 1947 and 1969 before PAN switched to using SBNs. I’m hoping 2,391 titles is correct as I made a spreadsheet and entered all the numbers I knew of and this is what it came to. Sometimes there were duplicate numbers with different titles and some numbers were skipped so I can’t be 100% certain which just adds to the fun of the chase. There are still variants and covers I’ve not got and I’m always looking for artwork, catalogues, advertising and any ephemera so if you can help please comment or email.
Following on from the above post where I mention there are still a lot of variants out there, I heard from Joe McLaughlin in Thorneside, Australia to say he had noticed I did not have the Australian Special Edition of ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ and would I like a copy? Well how could I say no to his very generous offer and I have now scanned it in and added it to the page. Thank you Joe and I’m amazed at how fast it got here.
I picked up up a pack on line of what I thought were printer’s proofs but which turned out to be over 200 promo cards so was a bit disappointed but a few were of covers I have not got. One example was for ‘Casino’ by Peter Baker which I’ve looked for but I’ve only turned up a copy in Indonesia. I don’t think I’m that desperate to go for that as it’s not really that interesting a cover. PAN also published ‘Cruise’ with a cover by Hans Helweg (which Pulp International erroneously attributed to Robert McGinnis, I have emailed them) which I saw in Hans studio. Both Baker titles I have are just ‘T’ and a SBN which means they cost 6/0 (30p in todays money)