I picked up a copy of the film tie in of ‘Hopscotch’ by Brian Garfield although I wasn’t impressed with the cover. What I found interesting was the the ISBN on the back was different from the ISBN inside so it appears PAN just took the 1976 text block and slapped a 1980 cover on it. Now wondering why it needed two ISBNs?
While searching for ‘Piccolo Explorers’ I hadn’t realised how many times the artwork had been used on other editions of some of the titles and by several publishers. Looking at dates, some proceed the Piccolo editions while other are after them. I have included four examples but I’m sure there must be others. Several are off the net so hopefully whoever posted them won’t mind me including them on the page.
I do like ‘Books for Keeps’ although copies are not that easy to come across but they do contain some interesting material including the adverts. In the 9th July 1981 magazine there is one for the launch of the ‘Piccolo Factbooks’ for the next day, the 10th and it gives the background to the series. You can see the page HERE plus, like the ‘Explorers’, some copies from other publishers with the same artwork.