Paperback 136: Night of Masks / Andre Norton (Ace 57752)

Paperback 136: Ace 57752 (3rd ptg, 1973)

Title: Night of Masks
Author: Andre Norton
Cover artist: "JW"

Yours for: $7



Best things about this cover:

It looks a lot like this cover (Paperback 74):

Let's compare

• In our book, the mask is basically the same as the face of the guy holding it, whereas in the earlier book, Wrinkles McGreenhand clearly needs his mask to pass for human.
• Actually, the more that I look at it, our book appears to depict Arnold Horshack holding a Charles Grodin mask.
• Our book has more soothing colors, though the soothing they induce is kinda offset by the scimitar-wielding dance troupe in the background.
• The sky of our book appears to have been finger-painted.
• Verdict: version 1 is way way better. Horrifying and mysterious, where our book just looks silly.

Page 123~

"So you just went out on the surface with the boy to hide out. What did you hope to gain?"

So that's why he needed a mask. Got it.

~RP

Paperback 74: Night of Masks / Andre Norton (Ace 57751)

Paperback 74: Ace 57751 (1st ptg, 1964)

Title: Night of Masks
Author: Andre Norton
Cover artist: Gray Morrow


Best things about this cover:

• The artist's name - Gray Morrow, the Gloomiest Guy in Town!
• "Maybe if I hold up this scary caucasian man-face, no one will notice that I am a 100-year-old drug-addicted Telly Savalas look-alike from Outer Space whose head is enormous and who is growing some kind of green mold on exactly one half of his body..."
• Love the uninhabitable gothic moonrock cathedral in the background. And the stars shooting across the Pollock-splattered sky.

RP

Paperback 17: Ace F-386

Paperback 17: Ace F-386 (1st ptg, 1966)

Title: The Time Traders
Author: Andre Norton
Cover artist: Unknown (possibly Ed Emshwiller)

Yours for: $8


Best things about this cover:

• Swirling vortex of Time!
• Martian probing stick!
• Prehistoric mullet!

RP