Photo credit: Cover of the pulp magazine Avon Fantasy Reader (November 23, 1948, no. 8) featuring Queen of the Black Coast by Robert E. Howard, via Wikimedia Commons. This issue was registered with the US Copyright Office and given registration number AA107687.  Searches at the US Copyright Office and online copyright renewal databases have not revealed any renewals of this issue by Avon Novels or its variant names—Avon Publishing, or Avon Books