I bought my copy from the Git-N-Go about a half mile from our house, next to the creek where I caught crawdads. This was in Bartlesville, in northeast Oklahoma. Here's somebody's photo of the Git-N-Go sign as I remember it from the 1960s:
Well, here are the front outside & inside covers for this fun little piece of newstand seduction.
Only the outside front & back covers were in color; all the other pages and inside covers are B&W. And what's wrong with that? In the same way that the crime noir films or classic monster movies are praised for their monocolor starkness, I really enjoy these stories as they are. They wouldn't be improved by throwing buckets of colored ink on them.
Of course, the cost of color interiors would have really jacked up the forty cent cover price.
As to the records sold inside the front cover, I'm not familiar with any of them. Many were repackaging of radio shows, as you can tell by the Basil Rathbone credit on the Dinosaurs! record.
Come back in a few days for our first story, which as it turns out was my first exposure to good ol' Aitch-Pee Ell (say it out loud).
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