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Looks to be a Jacono copy of the Ace D-103 cover, credited to Ed Valigursky.

"The Invaders Left the World Facing the Deadliest Peril in its History"

Fanthorpe’s “Doomed World,” as described on the back cover:

“George Mallory was out for a quiet day’s shooting. A typical countryman in typical English country. His day’s sport was interrupted by the be beginning of the greatest catastrophe in man’s history – an alien space ship was crashing at his feet.

“The ghastly monstrosity that emerged was so hideously repulsive that no one would have guessed at the degree of intelligence and potential friendliness in its strange mind.

“Mallory shot first and asked questions afterwards. With its dying strength, the alien cursed the earth with a scientific horror beyond the comprehension of man, a horror that turned the beasts against us.

“The only escape seemed to be out in space . . . but the devastating effect of the cosmic rays, wrought havoc in the minds of the space men and the lunar expedition turned upon itself in deadly carnage.

“What would be the outcome of the terrible conflict between man and beast?

“Doomed World is a masterly authentic science fiction thriller from the able pen of R. Lionel Fanthorpe, M.B.I.S.

“It needs no further recommendation.”

"A girl . . . a thing from Beyond . . . a nightmare adventure."

“Anthropologists argue over the significance of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon remains, and vast periods of pre-history remain to be filled satisfactorily. These hidden eras of the long-dead past are as open to speculation and mysterious adventure as the unguessed vistas of tomorrow. How many strange, undiscovered species of man have lived and died leaving no apparent record of their existence?

“An avalanche on the Swiss-Italian border isolated Marian Sanderson and a frightening assortment of other guests in a peculiar old alpine château. Although no human rescue party was able to make the climb, something moved on the precipitous slopes around them.

“As Marian gradually discovered the truth about her fellow guests she realized the avalanche had been no accident. Something of terrible potential lurked outside the isolated château. . . Dark, supernatural forces were poised on the brink of Ultimate Fear. . .” [From the back cover]

Author: Steve Holland.
Publisher: Bear Alley Books.
Date: 2023.
Artist: Martin Baines.

Author: Steve Holland.
Publisher: Bear Alley Books.
Date: 2023.
Artist: Martin Baines.

1964; Death has two Faces and more Supernatural Stories by R.L. Fanthorpe. Cover art by Henry Fox. Published by John Spencer & Co.

1960; The Man who couldn't Die by R.L. Fanthorpe. Cover art by Carlo Jacono. Published by John Spencer & Co.

Author: John Crawford (John Glasby).
Publisher: Trojan Books (Badger Books).
Date: Undated.
Artist:

Author: Lionel Roberts (R. L. Fanthorpe).
Publisher: Badger Books.
Date: 1960.
Artist: Ed Emshwiller.

“Hounded through space, they held a secret that could set millions free – if only they could stay alive!”

From the back cover:

The world beyond tomorrow the unopened future which lies at a point far distant from the early, fumbling attempts at space flight of our own times.

It is the future of mankind among the stars – but also a future of intrigue and treachery!

This is the setting of “Search the Dark Stars,” A. A. Glynn’s vigorous fantasy of a Galactic civilization which has split against itself and on whose shambles a ruthless warlord of the stars has built a barbaric empire. Persistently striving to topple his autocratic power is the Mutant League, a band of mentally powerful supernormals who style themselves the “inheritors of wisdom and power.”

Enter into this fantastic future in company with the man and the girl who dare to battle against the might of the New Empire – and who hold a guarded, vital secret. Travel with them in their urgent, hunted and hounded flight across the far-flung void of interstellar space and among the myriad worlds of peril of the starways.

“Search the Dark Stars” is a dynamic work of science fiction, a vivid novel of vast scope and swift action.

If your sense of wonder is jaded – try it!

“Ghost towns were the rule . . . not the exception . . . the world was empty!”

From the back cover:

The ties of home were strong. In a few years man gets attached to bricks and mortar, and scenery. In a hundred years roots are so deep that no one wants to tear them up. In a thousand years it is quite unthinkable. In a million years, only a lunatic would want to leave . . .

Then came the alien, presenting an impossible choice . . . Humanity must leave the Earth – or die! Behind them was everything they had known. In front of them, an unknow tomorrow.

Which were the greater – the hazards of remaining, or the dangers of the infinite void ahead?

Could they trust the alien?

He said there was another world, a safe world, that would be a new home – but was it all a trap?

There were dangers out there. The dangers of a population confined in ships for half a life-time; the dangers of cosmic radiation; danger of attacks by the “Others”!

Only men of the highest courage and the greatest integrity could hope to survive in the raw, searing savagery of the unknown . . .

“What was the source of the stranger’s incredible power?”

From the back cover:

They were trying out a new drive when a cosmic accident took them incalculable light years off course. A miracle of courage and astrogation meant that there were some survivors from the inevitable crash. The ship itself did not escape unscathed. What had been their vehicle became their prison. The buckled lock could not be opened from the inside and they had no other means of getting free. The air was slowly running out.

The planet they had hit was raw and primitive by their own standards, but it did hold intelligent life. One of the natives found the ship. Dare the trapped space travelers hope for a miracle? If they got out what kind of strange life forms would they be involved with? Could they hope to find the types of raw materials which would get their crippled ship into space again? If not, could they face life sentences on this strange, unknown, primitive world . . .?

Faced by a thousand fantastic difficulties the astronauts battled untiringly for their right to survive.

“The suspended animation chamber was her only chance of reaching the future.”

From the back cover:

Catherine Wilder was a strange girl, lovely but lonely. Sir Henry Wilder, her father, was the kind of eccentric, medical researcher who preferred to work in complete isolation. Catherine withdrew deeper into herself as the oppressing loneliness of her father’s remote mansion weighed upon her mind.

When she first heard the voice she wondered whether the mansion was haunted, then she feared for her sanity. But it was neither madness nor the supernatural which threatened her.

Mezak appeared to her suddenly in the twilight of the mansion’s gloomy corridors. He was more romantic than her wildest dreams. Although some of his language was beyond her understanding at first, it gradually became possible for them to communicate. Mezak was from the future, the remote future, but Catherine slowly realized that she was in love with him! Her father’s strange research into super-freezing and suspended animation gave her only a remote chance of reaching him, but she was prepared to take the chance. As Catherine placed herself in the freezing chamber, numbness and darkness crept over her. . .Would she ever open those beautiful eyes again?

Title: John Spencer & Co Badger Books - An Illustrated Bibliography.
Author: Shane P. D. Agnew.
Publisher:
Date: 2020.
Artist: Chris Hall.

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“What Would Happen in a World Where Synthetic Humans Could Be Mass Produced”

From the back cover:

Is there a Destiny? Does Fate impose a limit? What Barrier stands between man and the creation of life?

Since the legendary failure of the ill-fated Frankenstein, man has tried time and time again to pass those limits. He has created androids, clumsy robots of flesh and blood. He has made men of metal and servants of plastic, with wheels for limbs and magnetic tapes for voices. Man has made things by cross breeding the animal kingdom and distorting Nature’s intentions . . . but man has never yet made man. Or has he?

Frobisher thought that he had the answer. It wasn’t a clumsy Synthetic. It wasn’t an Android, or a Robot, it was a real flesh and blood human being.

The beautiful woman in his arms was the product of a laboratory experiment, not the result of a natural biological process. But how could he prove it?

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Badger Books were published between 1959 and 1967 in a number of genres, predominantly war, westerns, romance, supernatural and science fiction. In common with other “pulp” or mass-market publishers of the time, Badger Books focused on quantity rather than quality. A new title in each of the major genres appeared each month, generally written to tight deadlines by low-paid authors. One of the most remarkable facts about Badger Books is that much of its output was produced by just two authors (using a range of house names and other pseudonyms). John Glasby (over 300 novels and short stories) and Robert Lionel Fanthorpe (over 200 novels and stories). [Wikipedia]

“An Action-Packed Science Fiction Story from the Fred O. Gebhart Motion Picture Hit – Produced in Hollywood.”

From the back cover:

There were twelve of them, the world’s pick of men and women. True, they had the herculean task before them of travelling to the moon and back, but the “Lunar Eagle” was a fine, proud ship. They expected it to be routine enough,

But it turned out to be the weirdest, most adventure filled journey ever made into the unknown,

Come with them on the “Lunar Eagle I” for an action-packed story of suspense and mystery. Share Asmara Makonnen’s strange uneasy feeling just a few moments before Martel, the Frenchman, begins to scream. Learn what it feels like to be the first to step on the surface of the moon. Wonder, with Bill Rochester, the Englishman, why it felt like the end of everything. Be with the beautiful Swedish physician and the Turkish biologist as some eerie force draws them into the strangely lighted cave.

“12 TO THE MOON” is a story that builds to an unusual climax as John Anderson and his crew find themselves stalled in outer space, with not only their rocket ship doomed, but Earth as well! Their fantastic adventures and how they solve their final dilemma makes for suspenseful, gripping reading. This is a must for science fiction fans.

Movie trailer for this low-budget sci-fi movie:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ud_SBew3e0

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Badger Books were published between 1959 and 1967 in a number of genres, predominantly war, westerns, romance, supernatural and science fiction. In common with other “pulp” or mass-market publishers of the time, Badger Books focused on quantity rather than quality. A new title in each of the major genres appeared each month, generally written to tight deadlines by low-paid authors. One of the most remarkable facts about Badger Books is that much of its output was produced by just two authors (using a range of house names and other pseudonyms). John Glasby (over 300 novels and short stories) and Robert Lionel Fanthorpe (over 200 novels and stories). [Wikipedia]

For more on this one, you could have a look at my blog: davewhatt.wordpress.com/2021/05/21/the-slobbering-semi-am...

“If the computer had a mind of its own, what did it plan for humanity?”

From the back cover:

Helen Powell was a punch card operator in the test office of Elcomp, the largest and most dynamically progressive computer manufacturing company in the West.

A saboteur, acting for a totalitarian regime, eluded the security network and attempted to destroy the new, top secret Mark IX, the greatest computer Elcomp had ever constructed. Unfortunately for the saboteur, the Mark IX had inbuilt defence mechanisms and the secret agent died in a holocaust of high voltage sparks. From that time onwards Helen began to notice strange changes in the great electronic thinking machine. It seemed to her that the Mark IX was developing something which might almost have been described as a personality. She tried to dismiss the thoughts as imagination . . . then the face appeared . . . if it was a face! Helen saw an image on the computer’s main screen. It was a face, yet not a human face in the accepted sense. The most horrible thing about it was the resemblance it bore to the dead agent.

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Vega Books published 14 books from 1963 to 1965 which were written under several house names, but most were written by Lionel Fanthorpe and John S. Glasby. The books were published in Clovis, California in the same style as Badger Books in the UK.

This Power Sphere existed long before BoBoiBoy and his quest to save the Power Spheres and defend our galaxy.

“Out there beyond the planet something incredible was watching.”

From the back cover:

Salford had an unenviable assignment. Beyond the security of the in-worlds there were a number of dark, mysterious unexplored planets, hostile to life, hated and feared by the experienced spacemen. Salford neither hated nor feared them. He was a man doing a job.

He reached the assignment world and set out to explore what might have been the ruins of a long dead alien civilization.

As he left the safety of his ship he was aware that he was not alone. Someone or something watched his every move. At last he glanced into the sky . . .

Perhaps it was a mirage, perhaps it was an hallucination. Salford felt that if there was an answer, it must lie somewhere buried among the distant ruins. He reached them and began to explore. The more he learned of the incredible civilization that had once existed, the more mysterious the aerial phenomena became. Finally he discovered what seemed to be the clue, and yet he was no nearer a real solution to the problem. Although the evidence pointed to the ancient civilization being extinct there were things among the ruins that didn’t make sense unless some trace of the Ancients lived on.

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Badger Books were published between 1959 and 1967 in a number of genres, predominantly war, westerns, romance, supernatural and science fiction. In common with other “pulp” or mass-market publishers of the time, Badger Books focused on quantity rather than quality. A new title in each of the major genres appeared each month, generally written to tight deadlines by low-paid authors. One of the most remarkable facts about Badger Books is that much of its output was produced by just two authors (using a range of house names and other pseudonyms). John Glasby (over 300 novels and short stories) and Robert Lionel Fanthorpe (over 200 novels and stories). [Wikipedia]

“He Lost His Honour and Found It In The Black Deeps Of Space.”

From the back cover:

The Freedom Group was out to conquer Earth, its members were prepared to use every means fair or foul to depose the Earth Council . . .even to the launching of atomic missiles from the Moon. That thousands of innocent people would be killed as a result of their bid for mastery was of little or no importance to them.

Richard Cartland was a pilot in the Rocket Service from Earth to Lunar, until he was convicted of space piracy and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment at New Washington.

From his encounter with John Burr, convict and revolutionary, he was drawn inexorably into a merciless maelstrom of murder, piracy and full scale rebellion in space.

Here is the explosive story of Earth’s first space colony, the Moon, the story of the masters and of the convicts who mined the deadly Ferrinite ore from the bowels of the Lunar craters . . . and the grim bearers of destruction who came from out of space to wreak havoc on the barren, airless surface of the dead satellite.

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Badger Books were published between 1959 and 1967 in a number of genres, predominantly war, westerns, romance, supernatural and science fiction. In common with other “pulp” or mass-market publishers of the time, Badger Books focused on quantity rather than quality. A new title in each of the major genres appeared each month, generally written to tight deadlines by low-paid authors. One of the most remarkable facts about Badger Books is that much of its output was produced by just two authors (using a range of house names and other pseudonyms). John Glasby (over 300 novels and short stories) and Robert Lionel Fanthorpe (over 200 novels and stories). [Wikipedia]