Man's Daring

These aren't Canadian or paperbacks but something much more uncommon - faux paperbacks. In 1965 Candar Publishing Company of Sparta, Illinois published six Man's Daring magazines with a "special book bonus" using covers from paperbacks that don't exist to promote the stories. The "condensed books" are 3 or 4 pages long.

Man's Daring January 1965

Man's Daring May 1965

Man's Daring September 1965

Merry Christmas

A report on the Canadian book industry (Report on the Canadian Book Trade 1944, Toronto: Book Publisher’s Branch of the Board of Trade of the City of Toronto, 1944) listed where mass market paperbacks were sold in the early nineteen forties:

a) Chain stores – national such as Woolworth, Kresge, Metropolitan and Zellers; regional such as Stedman’s [sic] and Beamish; United Cigar Stores; railway station stands run by The Canadian Pacific Railway News Department and The Canada Railways News Company.
b) Other retailers – in smaller cities and towns through drugstores or general stores.
c) Newsstands – where they were introduced by wholesale news dealers who handled paperbacks along with magazines.

Here is something from Christmas 1943 that doesn't mention paperbacks but is about the magazines that would have been sold along side paperbacks in 1944. It's interesting to note that almost half of the adult magazines (17 of 39) are still published nearly 70 years later.

Most of the paperbacks would have been the Canadian editions of Pocket, Avon and Dell, among others. The only Canadian publisher was Wm. Collins & Sons Co. Canada Ltd with their White Circle imprint. Here are a couple of White Circles that might have been on the shelves that Christmas.

White Circle 90

White Circle 99

Export and Magazines

In my posting about Export and comics I discussed the comics that Export Publishing Enterprises Ltd. published in addition to the paperbacks. I mentioned that they also published magazines/pulps. As far as I know they were all reprints of American periodicals. Here are a few.

The first is a 64 page magazine published in the US by Jones Publishing Co. of Skokie Illinois. At least six undated spiral bound annuals were produced by Jones. Export likely only published the first volume in Canada.

I haven't found an American version of Model Photography.

I have located only one pulp, Real Western, volume 13, number 6, dated August [1948]. It is 100 pages, including covers. The American edition is 116 pages, including covers, the difference being a sixteen page story not reproduced in the Canadian edition. The front cover has a price of 25 cents versus 15 cents for the American edition and the illustrations are poorly reproduced. The inside of the front cover and both sides of the back cover have the American ads replaced with Canadian ads. Three full page internal ads have also been changed in the Export edition.

Real Western back cover