Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24300543-20190603214645/@comment-24300543-20200204015432

I've recently increased my collection of these thin printed books with #7 and #19. #7 does have the Scholastic Special Edition on the back cover, but it doesn't include anything else inside, special ads in it or anything else. it's a legit first printing though, because it has the misprint on the back, saying Kris where it should say Lindy. The only ads in the back are, 1, an order form for the first 4 books in the Clue series, and 2, the Goosebumps series, which include the first 7 books, each of them not including their numbers, nor in order of publication. Other than that, it's just like the print book, including the preview of the next book.

I found a way to tell these books, post-36, if they're one of these editions, by having a single line of white text on the side of the cover. However, this lead me to #49 and #50, which are both the size of a regular Goosebumps book. Other than not being thin printed, they follow the same rules as the thin printed. I'm uncertain if they are the same type of book, and it leads me to question why they would choose to make some of these thin and some not.


 * 7, however, does break one rule of the thin printed books. This book features a price on it, on the line of text on the front cover as well as on the binding, having 2 lines of text as on the original version, the price being $2.95 US/$3.95 CAN.


 * 1) 19 looks the same way the original 1st printing would look, same ads, same "what gives you Goosebumps?" contest in the back. However, it doesn't mention the contest on the front cover at all, while the first printing did. Other than that, following the same rules as the thin printed books, the single line of text on the side, Scholastic and isbn numbers on the cover.

I havent done much research into seeing if these were from book orders or any kind of special edition scholastic school market books.