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SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY.
Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1957. Octavo, single issue, cover by Emshwiller, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Midadjustment" by Philip K. Dick. 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.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1950. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Death-Wish" by Ray Bradbury. 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 AND INVENTION.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc., 1925. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes part 2 of "Tarrano the Conqueror" by Ray Cummings. Also includes an article by Major H. H. "Hap" Arnold title "Airplane Bomb vs. Anti-Aircraft Defense. Arnold would command the U. S. Army Air Forces during WW II, attaining the four star rank in 1943. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 500-04.
SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY.
Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by James Blish, Mack Reynolds, Randall Garrett and others. 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.
SHOCK MYSTERY TALES.
New York: Pontiac Publishing Corp. 1962. Small octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. "Macabre backgrounds, cults and weird characters highlight these stories..." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, p. 499. A short lived magazine with covers and contents in the vein of weird menace magazines. Note: The volume numbering is possibly continued from Shock magazine (Winston Publications, Inc.).
WHISPERS.
Browns Mills, NJ: Stuart David Schiff, 1983. Octavo, single issue, cloth. First edition. Of 376 hardbound copies this is one of 350 numbered copies signed by Whitley Streiber and publisher Stuart Schiff. The Whitley Streiber issue. Contributors include Streiber, Charles Grant, Stephen Goldin, Manly Wade Wellman, Hugh B. Cave and others.
SUPER SCIENCE NOVELS.
Chicago, IL: Fictioneers, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Victory Unintentional" by Isaac Asimov. Also includes Leigh Brackett, Henry Hasse, Malcolm Jameson and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Fictioneers, Inc., 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by John D. MacDonald, with two, the second by John Wade Farrell, an Asimov reprint and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Fictioneers, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by John D. MacDonald, with two, the second by John Wade Farrell, an Asimov reprint and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
MYSTERY MAGAZINE: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE [COVER TITLE].
Chicago, Illinois: Tower Magazines, Inc., April 1935 (volume 11, number 4). Large octavo, single issue, cover by John Atherton, pictorial wrappers. Fiction by Belden Duff, Whitman Chambers, Hulbert Footner, Helgo Walter, Norman Matson, Mary Plum, and Edward Acheson (his full-length novel, DEAD MEN CAN'T WALK); articles by Henry LaCossitt, Leigh Matteson, Edmund Pearson, and Theodore Dreiser ("I Find the Real American Tragedy"). 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.
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, Stuart Palmer, Louis Golding, Maurice Renard 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.
MYSTERY MAGAZINE: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE [COVER TITLE].
Dunellen, N.J. Tower Magazines, Inc., 1934. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Harold Woolridge, pictorial wrappers. Contributors include Ellery Queen ("The Black Cats Vanished," a weird mystery story later collected with others in THE ADVENTURES OF ELLERY QUEEN), Stuart Palmer, Henry Lacossitt, Roger East (his full-length novel, MURDER IN THE GARDEN), 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.
MYSTERY MAGAZINE: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE [COVER TITLE].
Chicago, IL: Tower Magazines, Inc., 1934. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Harold Woolridge, pictorial wrappers. Fiction by Walter F. Ripperberger, Stuart Palmer, Ellery Queen, Roger East 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.
MIDNIGHT SUN.
Birmingham, England: Stephen Jones, 1981. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Magazine. Includes the Kane story "The Other One" by Karl Edward Wagner.
WHISPERS.
Binghamton, New York: Whispers Press, 1988. Octavo, First edition. Of 376 copies this is one of 26 lettered copies signed by Whitley Strieber and inscribed by Stuart David Schiff. The Whitley Strieber issue.
WONDER STORIES QUARTERLY.
Mount Morris, IL: Stellar Publications Corporation, 1931. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes "The Amazing Planet" by Clark Ashton Smith. A space opera novel by J[ames] M[organ] Walsh, "Vandals of the Void" about an invasion from the planet Mercury is also featured. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 763-766.