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Belmont Books, also known as Belmont Productions, was an American publisher of genre fiction paperback originals founded in 1960. It specialized in science fiction, horror and fantasy, with titles appearing from 1961 through 1971. The company published books by such notable authors as Philip K. Dick, Philip José Farmer, Lin Carter, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, and Gardner Fox. Belmont was owned by the same company that owned Archie Comics.

Belmont was formed by John L. Goldwater, Louis Silberkleit, Maurice Coyne, the co-founders of Archie Comics, who also ran the pulp magazine publisher Columbia Publications. When Columbia was shut down in 1960 (due to the demise of the pulp industry), Goldwater, Silberkleit, and Coyne immediately formed Belmont Books. 

Belmont's initial offerings were four titles — a Western, a mystery, a science fiction book, and a detective book. Once they got going, Belmont published about 12 titles per month, with print runs of between 30,000 and 70,000 copies. Rather than bookstores, their books were sold in railroad stations, airports, bus terminals, drug stores, and the lobbies of office buildings and hotels.

From 1962 to 1965, Belmont published a number of science fiction anthologies, all edited by Ivan Howard, that featured content from the pulp magazines Science Fiction, Future Fiction, Science Fiction Quarterly, and Dynamic Science Fiction, all of which had been published by Belmont co-owner Louis Silberkleit.

Beginning in 1963, Belmont published nine updated The Shadow novels. The first one, Return of The Shadow, was by Walter B. Gibson. The remaining eight, published from 1964 to 1967, were written by Dennis Lynds under the pen name "Maxwell Grant."

From 1969 to 1970, Belmont published a series of sword and sorcery novels by Gardner Fox, featuring the barbarian character Kothar.

The firm merged with Tower Publications (the parent company of Tower Comics) in 1971, forming Belmont Tower, under which name it continued publishing from 1971 through 1980.

Works in the WWEnd Database

1980 WOLF TRACKS David Case	1978 SPEARMEN OF ARN Del DowDell	1978 STAR QUEST Robert E. Mills	1978 STAR FIGHTERS Robert E. Mills	1978 STAR FORCE Robert E. Mills	1972 GREYLAND Dave Van Arnam
1971 THE ISLAND PEOPLE Stanton A. Coblentz	1971 NIGHT OF THE SAUCERS Eando Binder	1971 THE QUEST OF KADJI Lin Carter	1971 THE NEW TOMORROWS Norman Spinrad	1970 ANALOG 7 John W. Campbell, Jr.	1970 OVER THE EDGE Harlan Ellison
1970 INVADERS ON THE MOON Kris Neville	1970 WIZARD OF STORMS Dave Van Arnam	1970 KOTHAR AND THE CONJURER'S CURSE Gardner F. Fox	1970 KOTHAR AND THE WIZARD SLAYER Gardner F. Fox	1969 THE EVIL THAT MEN DO / THE PURLOINED PLANET John Brunner Lin Carter	1969 SYN Raymond F. Jones
1969 KOTHAR: BARBARIAN SWORDSMAN Gardner F. Fox	1969 KOTHAR OF THE MAGIC SWORD! Gardner F. Fox	1969 MENACE OF THE SAUCERS Eando Binder	1969 THE COSMIC EYE Mack Reynolds	1969 BEYOND THE GATES OF DREAM Lin Carter	1969 QUEST OF THE DARK LADY Quinn Reade
1969 GIANT OF WORLD'S END Lin Carter	1971 THE FUTURE MAKERS Peter Haining	1968 TOWER AT THE EDGE OF TIME Lin Carter	1968 A PIECE OF MARTIN CANN Laurence M. Janifer	1968 IMPOSSIBLE? Laurence M. Janifer	1968 THE PLAYERS OF HELL Dave Van Arnam
1968 THE THIEF OF THOTH / ...AND OTHERS SHALL BE BORN Lin Carter Frank Belknap Long	1968 A LAMP FOR MEDUSA / THE PLAYERS OF HELL William Tenn Dave Van Arnam	1968 LADIES' DAY / THIS CROWDED EARTH Robert Bloch	1968 FATHER OF LIES / MIRROR IMAGE John Brunner Bruce Duncan	1967 AGENT OF CHAOS Norman Spinrad	1967 JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS Frank Belknap Long
1967 AFTER SOME TOMORROW Mack Reynolds	1967 THE JEWELS OF ELSEWHEN Ted White	1967 THE FLAME OF IRIDAR / PERIL OF THE STARMEN Lin Carter Kris Neville	1967 DOOMSMAN / TELEPOWER Harlan Ellison Lee Hoffman	1967 SPECIAL DELIVERY / STAR GLADIATOR Kris Neville Dave Van Arnam	1966 THE MUTANTS Kris Neville
1977 GARBAGE WORLD Charles Platt	1966 OF GODLIKE POWER Mack Reynolds	1966 THIS STRANGE TOMORROW Frank Belknap Long	1966 LEST EARTH BE CONQUERED Frank Belknap Long	1966 TWO HAWKS FROM EARTH Philip José Farmer	1966 THE FOUR DAY WEEKEND George H. Smith
1965 SECRET OF THE BLACK PLANET Milton Lesser	1965 A PAIR FROM SPACE: GIANTS IN THE EARTH / WE, THE MARAUDERS James Blish Robert Silverberg	1968 THE UNEARTH PEOPLE Kris Neville	1964 THE PENULTIMATE TRUTH Philip K. Dick	1964 WORLDS WITHOUT END Clifford D. Simak	1964 THE NON-STATISTICAL MAN Raymond F. Jones
1963 IT WAS THE DAY OF THE ROBOT Frank Belknap Long	1965 A TALE OF TWO CLOCKS James H. Schmitz	1966 THE ALIEN Raymond F. Jones	1970 THE MARACOT DEEP Arthur Conan Doyle

Authors Published

• Linwood Carter  • Kris Neville  • David Van Arnam  • Frank Long  • Gardner Fox  • Raymond Jones  • Robert Mills  • Dallas Reynolds  • Harlan Ellison  • John Brunner  • Norman Spinrad  • Otto Binder  • Laurence Harris  • George Smith  • David Case  • Stephen Marlowe  • Peter Haining  • Bruce Duncan  • Stanton Coblentz  • Shirley Hoffman  • Charles Platt  • Robert Bloch  • James Blish  • Philip Dick  • Clifford Simak  • Philip Farmer  • Robert Silverberg  • James Schmitz  • Arthur Doyle  • Phillip Klass  • John Campbell  • Theodore White  • Benjamin Haas  • Del DowDell