Belmont did a few doubles in the 1960s of both mysteries and
science fiction. One I recall was a 1967 pairing of Harlan
Ellison's DOOMSMAN with Lee Hoffman's TELEPOWER. I've heard
reports that now and then at convention autograph sessions
would hand the volume to Ellison only to have him tear it
apart and throw away his half while offering praise for
Hoffman's story.
There was another SF double pairing Lin Carter with Frank
Belknap Long. Somewhere around here I have a mystery pair by
Day Keene that I am reasonably certain was a Belmont. I have
a nagging minority thought that it may have been from
Macfadden.
The Belmonts did not have two covers on reverse sides as did
Ace. They had a split cover with two illustrations one on top
of the other. Now that I think of it, Robert Bloch also had a
Belmont double.
Back in the early days of paperback reprints, the digest
format (as in digest-sized magazines) competed with the
pocketbook format. Some of the digest publishers did splits
with two authors sharing a volume.
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Juri Nummelin"
<juri.nummelin@...> wrote:
>
> Apart from Ace Doubles, at least the porn publisher
Midwood did
Doubles.
> I've noticed they are pricy.
>
> Later on Gryphon Books has done some Doubles, but
they are more
> pamphlet-like.
>
> Juri
>
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