Remembering the Magnum Easy Eyes

Homage to a vintage paperback classics series

Jim Esch
6 min readJan 12, 2024

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An early influence on my love for classic literature was the Magnum Easy Eye paperback series.

Magnum Easy Eye cover art

They were published by Lancer Books, which was founded by Irwin Stein and Walter Zacharius. From 1961 to 1973, Lancer published mostly SciFi and Fantasy novels, but they also published reprints of public domain…

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