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ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Readers' Guild, Inc., 1931. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. This issue the magazine shortens title to just ASTOUNDING STORIES. Features the first published story by Harry Bates, "The Tentacles From Below," writing as Anthony Gilmore. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
TARZAN AND THE ANT-MEN in ARGOSY ALL-STORY WEEKLY [complete in seven issues].
New York: The Frank A. Munsey, Company, 1924. Octavo, seven issues, cover illustration for the February 2 issue by Stockton Mulford, interior illustration in each issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Complete seven part serial "Tarzan and the Ant-Men." This magazine version is approximately 7,000 words shorter than the novel published in book form in the U.S., the British book publication matches this version. Heins pp. 64-65.
DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.
New York: The Red Star News, Co., 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Hugh B. Cave, Judson Philips (Judson Pentecost Philips wrote over 100 crime novels many using the pseudonym Hugh Pentecost), Philip Ketchum, Lawrence Treat and others. "Detective Fiction Weekly maintained a strong personality in a crowded field, through a rigid weekly publication schedule, for two decades. It is greatly underrated today" - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 135-137.
DOC SAVAGE.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Walter Baumhofer, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features "The Majii" by Kenneth Robeson. "Doc Savage was intended to be an adventure character, but under Lester Dent's imaginative manipulations he became something more-the first superhero and an inspiration for countless pulp, comic-book, and television characters." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 183-185.
FANTASTIC STORY MAGAZINE.
Kokomo, IN: Best Books, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Alex Schomburg, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Largely a reprint magazine which started life as Fantastic Story Quarterly. Includes an original Richard Matheson story. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 249-250.
GAMMA. (Five issues, all published).
North Hollywood, CA: Star Press, Inc., [1963-1965]. Small octavo, five issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. A short run magazine that published some very good fiction but could not work out its identity. Authors include Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, William F. Nolan, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, A. E. Van Vogt, Dorothy Hughes, Robert Sheckley, Patricia Highsmith, Dennis Etchison and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 313-315.
MAMMOTH MYSTERY.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Compnay, 1946. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Short fiction by John D. MacDonald-"Get Dressed for Death," William P. McGivern and others.
OPERATOR #5.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue cover by John Hewitt, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Red Invader," Curtis Steele (pseudonym). A well regarded hero pulp with strong science fictional elements combined with spy fiction. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 402-405. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 448-451.
OPERATOR #5.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue cover by John Hewitt, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Liberty's Suicide Legions," Curtis Steele (pseudonym). The 5th installment of the ongoing Purple Empire story. A well regarded hero pulp with strong science fictional elements combined with spy fiction. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 402-405. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 448-451.
OPERATOR #5.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1934. Octavo, single issue cover by John Hewitt, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Green Death Mists," by Curtis Steele (pseudonym). A well regarded hero pulp with strong science fictional elements combined with spy fiction. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 402-405. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 448-451.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Incudes "The Incubi of Parallel X" by Ted Sturgeon. Also fiction by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson Alfred Coppel, and others. 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.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1943. Octavo, single issue, cover by Gross. pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Incudes fiction by Henry Kuttner, Nelson Bond, Fred Pohl writing as "James MacCreigh," and others. 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 Jack Coggins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Milton Lesser, Bryce Walton 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.
SPEED MYSTERY.
Springfield, MA: Trojan Pubications, Inc., 1944. Octavo, single issue, cover by H[ugh] J[ospeh] Ward, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. This magazine started its incarnation as SPICY MYSTERY STORIES. Most of the fiction writers are house pseudonyms. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 518-521.
SUPER-DETECTIVE.
New York: Trojan Publishing Corporation, 1941. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. In the beginning this was not really a detective magazine but a hero-adventure magazine featuring Jim Anthony of Irish and American Indian lineage. Basically a Doc Savage imitation. With this issue and story "I.O.U. Murder" the series moved into a detective series with the adventure trappings and the Anthony character started wearing business suits. The stories were written by John Grange, a house pseudonym for Robert Leslie Bellem and W. T. Ballard. The Anthony character was phased out in 1943. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 543-545.
WESTERN ADVENTURES.
New York: Climax Publishing Corporation, 1933. Octavo, single issue cover by H. Meloy, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Third of four issues of this Clayton magazine. Historical fiction oriented magazine.