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PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1954. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "James P. Crow" by Philip K. Dick. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY.
Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Milton Luros, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The World She Wanted" by Philip K. Dick, a story of parallel universes. SFQ is also notable as it became the last published SF pulp magazine, the last issue in 1958. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 545-550.
POPULAR DETECTIVE.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Mystery fiction.
PRIVATE DETECTIVE STORIES.
New York: Trojan Publishing Corp. 1944. Octavo, single issue, cover by Allen Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Robert Leslie Bellem, E. Hoffman Price and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 426-428.
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1944. Octavo, single issue, cover by Malcolm Smith, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "I, Rocket" by Ray Bradbury. Brabury's first sale to Amazing Stories. Also fiction by Edmond Hamilton, Emil Petaja and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
REX STOUT MYSTERY. [ISSUES 1-9: ALL PUBLISHED].
New York: Avon Book Company (1), Avon Detective-Mysteries, Inc. (2-9), 1945-47. Small octavo, nine issues, printed and pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. A complete run of all nine issues. Stout was Editor in Chief and wrote commentary for each issue. Mostly reprints by well known authors which include John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Carter Dickson, Raymond Chandler, William Irish, H. P. Lovecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper), Cornell Woolrich, Ray Bradbury, and many more. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 451-453.
SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST. (Two issues, all published).
New York: Specific Fiction Corp. 1954. Small octavo, two issues, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest magazine. The only two issues of this short lived magazine. Fiction comprised largely of reprints from other magazines. The editor also featured articles telepathy and levitation. The second issue features a cover photo of the Creature From the Black Lagoon and a short article by George Pal on science fiction films. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 533-534.
UNCANNY STORIES ...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-362, fly leaf at rear, 21 full-page and many smaller illustrations by Jean de Bosschere throughout the text, original maroon cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Collects a short novel, "The Flaw in the Crystal," and six short stories. A major collection of supernatural fiction. "An underrated writer ... Excellent." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1478. "Sinclair's stories are among the most outstanding examples of the ghost story as moral fable." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-178. Sinclair's "contribution to the genre, small as it is, is notable." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 387-88. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Supernatural Fiction, p. 163. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 957. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-198. Bleiler (1978), p. 180. Reginald 13211.
SPACE SCIENCE FICTION. (Eight issues, all published).
New York: Space Publications Inc., 1952-1953. Small octavo, eight issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Another short lived, but quality, magazine of the 1950s boomlet, done in by disagreement between the editor and publisher (which terminated all of the publishers fanstasy and science fiction magazines). Authors include Isaac Asimov, Henry Kuttner, Clifford Simak, Michael Shaara, Lester Del Rey (including pseudonyms), John Christopher, Damon Knight, Philip K. Dick, Robert Sheckley and others. Highlights include the first publication of the first of the newly discovered Conan stories which surfaced starting in the 1950s. This publication interestedly includes a short note by the editor of the story, L. Sprague De Camp, about the discovery of the story from unsold Howard manuscripts. De Camp also includes the transcript of a note which was attached to the manuscript by H. P. Lovecraft. Other notables include the publication of Algis Budrys first published story "Walk to the World" and two Philip K. Dick fictions, "Second Variety" and "The Variable Man." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 585-586.
SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES.
Wilmington, DE: Culture Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Ward, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 515-518.
STARTLING MYSTERY STORIES. (Eighteen issues, all published).
New York: Health Knowledge Inc., 1966-1971. Octavo, eighteen issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. This publication included new and reprint fiction. Reprints coming mainly from the pulps, including Seabury Quinn's Jules de Grandin stories, Paul Ernst's Dr. Satan, and Edward Hoch's Simon Ark stories. As for new material, a claim to fame is the publication of Stephen King's first two stories "The Glass Floor" in issue number 6 and "The Reaper's Image," in issue number 12. Other new fiction included authors Ramsey Campbell, John Brunner, and F. Paul Wilson with his first professional appearance. Lowndes editorials were also of interest as he covered subjects in the detective fiction genre. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 608-611.
STARTLING STORIES.
Chicago, IL: Better Publications, Inc., 1948. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Henry Kuttner, Paul Ernst, Frank Belknap Long, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 611-617.
STARTLING STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Better Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Captain Future story, "Birthplace of Creation," by Edmond Hamilton. Also fiction by John Wyndham, Robert Moore Williams and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 611-617.
STARTLING STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Better Publications, Inc., 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Alex Schomburg, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by George O. Smith, Eric Frank Russell, Margaret St. Clair and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 611-617.
STARTLING STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Better Publications, Inc., 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Alex Schomburg, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by George O. Smith, Eric Frank Russell, Margaret St. Clair and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 611-617.
STARTLING STORIES.
Springfield, MA: Better Publications, Inc., 1950. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features "Wine of the Dreamers" by John D. MacDonald. Also Includes a Captain Future story, "Children of the Sun," by Edmond Hamilton. Other fiction by Fritz Leiber.
THE AVENGER.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Hate Master" by Kenneth Robeson (pseudonym). Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 36-39.
THE GANG MAGAZINE.
New York, NY: Lincoln Hoffman, 1935. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by George Bruce, Erle Stanley Garnder, Theodore Tinsley and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, p. 249.
MYSTERY MAGAZINE: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE [COVER TITLE].
Chicago, IL: Tower Magazines, Inc., 1934. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Fiction by Ellery Queen, Vincent Starrett, Mignon G. Eberhart, Hulbert Footner and others. A large format, densely illustrated, bedsheet-sized pulp. "The fiction emphasized the woman's point of view, was often narrated by a woman, and featured as many feminine as masculine detectives. In the rear of the magazine flowered all the usual departments of a more conventional woman's publication ... That this magazine would publish much fiction of interest seems improbable. But without effort, it contrived to be superb. ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE selected outstanding writers who had made their mark in the 1920s and mingled these with rising writers of the 1930s. Over the years, the magazine would publish work by top names in the mystery field, including Ellery Queen, Stuart Palmer, Sax Rohmer, Arnold Kummer, Hulbert Footner, Vincent Starrett and H. Bedford-Jones. The fiction was polished, often strongly compressed, and good enough for a large amount of it to appear later between book covers. The magazine appeared monthly for almost six years, sixty-nine issues, at ten cents a copy. After three years, the title was changed to THE MYSTERY MAGAZINE ... Covers were tasteful, bright, and uneventful, relying heavily on the faces of self-confident women. Inside was an astonishing amount of material: eight to ten pieces of fiction, four or more crime-fact articles, and up to ten continuing departments (about half of these slanted directly toward women). When the magazine was at its peak in the early 1930s, it offered material carefully calculated to appeal to most tastes and both sexes ... MYSTERY was as meticulously planned as an orchestral score. Its careful variations played upon every shade of reader interest. It was consciously polished, self-consciously feminine. A curious pared sound rang in its fiction, as if the stories had been edited with a chain saw, but the prose flashed with a bright nickel glitter. Slick the magazine may have been, and often over illustrated, but it was also considerably interesting and, for years, excellent." - Cook, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines, pp. [287]-90.
THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Phantom And the Uniformed Killers" by Robert Wallace. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 408-414.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Gray Ghost" by Maxwell Grant. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Cards of Death" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a Steve Fisher short story. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Hand" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a Frank Gruber short story. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Three Brothers" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a Steve Fisher writing as Stephen Gould short story. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue, cover by George Rozen, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Robot Master" by Maxwell Grant. Includes stories by Fredric Brown and William Campbell Gault. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.