{"id":18246,"date":"2026-04-13T06:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=18246"},"modified":"2026-04-13T06:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:41:27","slug":"rip-paul-sample-and-len-deighton-not-quite-all-the-colours-of-the-rainbow-and-blackwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2026\/04\/13\/rip-paul-sample-and-len-deighton-not-quite-all-the-colours-of-the-rainbow-and-blackwater\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Paul Sample and  Len Deighton, Not Quite All the Colours of the Rainbow and &#8216;Blackwater&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As I mentioned last week I had not noticed the passing of artist Paul Sample (19\/02\/1947 to 27\/01\/2026) back in January. We often emailed, with me usually asking for more information on a specific cover. He is probably most well known to PAN Fans for painting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Sharpe\/BoxSet.htm\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Tom Sharpe covers<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> but he also did <a href=\"https:\/\/tikit.net\/2020\/Sample.htm\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">others<\/span> <\/strong><\/a>for PAN. We also lost Len Deighton (18\/02\/1929 to 15\/03\/2026) more recently and PAN published a couple of his books such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2018\/Deighton\/Deighton.htm\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Bomber&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> plus including endorsements on several other titles.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TheNinja8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-18285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TheNinja8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Not PAN but looking through assorted bits and pieces I came across these A4 adverts for <a href=\"https:\/\/tikit.net\/2026\/April\/TheNinja.htm\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;The Ninja&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a>. It&#8217;s a pity there aren&#8217;t seven then we would have had all the colours of the rainbow. They come in a folder made of what seems like bright red flock wallpaper which may have a significance that eludes me.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This weeks David Tayler rough is for what seems to be a rather elusive PAN title, namely <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>&#8216;<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Later%20PANs\/PAN443.htm\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Blackwater&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/em> <\/span>by Frank O&#8217;Rourke. PAN published another book with the same title but by H L Tredree which seems to be much more common.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<p><strong>FOOTNOTE<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">As was pointed out on a James Bond Facebook page there are some very optimistic sellers out there. Now how many copies of<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/157817368653?mkcid=16&amp;mkevt=1&amp;mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&amp;ssspo=y3L5tiV3QN2&amp;sssrc=4429486&amp;ssuid=3DUHqzXEQvK&amp;stype=1&amp;var=&amp;widget_ver=artemis&amp;media=COPY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">this book<\/span><\/strong><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">have I got?<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned last week I had not noticed the passing of artist Paul Sample (19\/02\/1947 to 27\/01\/2026) back in January. We often emailed, with me usually asking for more information on a specific cover. He is probably most well known to PAN Fans for painting the Tom Sharpe covers but he also did others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18330,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18246\/revisions\/18330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}