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ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1927. Octavo, single issue, cover by C. Clyde Squires, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Features part one of the serial "Seven Footprints to Satan" by A. Merritt.
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THE RED STAR OF TARZAN [TARZAN AND THE FORBIDDEN CITY] in ARGOSY [complete in six issues].
New York: The Frank A. Munsey, Company, 1938. Octavo, six issues, cover illustration for the March 19 issue by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Complete six part serial "The Red Star of Tarzan." The editor had this serial re-written and expanded by Ben Nelson and Burroughs Mitchell. The novel, published in book form as TARZAN AND THE FORBIDDEN CITY, used Burroughs manuscript and not the serial version. Belarksi based his Tarzan cover painting on Johnny Weissmuller. Zeuscher, Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Bibliography, pp. 341-342.
FANTASTIC ADVENTURES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by J. Allen St. John, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Feature story "Slaves of the Fish Men" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, part of ESCAPE ON VENUS. Also fiction by Robert Leslie Bellem, William P. McGivern and others. Heins p. 151.
CAPTAIN FUTURE.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Lost World of Time" by Edmond Hamilton. The only hero pulp magazine solely within the science fiction genre. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 155-157.
CAPTAIN FUTURE.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Star Trail to Glory" by Edmond Hamilton. Also a Fredric Brown short story. The only hero pulp magazine solely within the science fiction genre. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 155-157.
ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Ralph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes part two of "The Green Flame" by Eric North (Bernard Cronin), a science fiction thriller set in Australia. Also "All At Once, No Alice" a classic disappearing woman story by Cornell Woolrich.
FANTASTIC STORY MAGAZINE.
Kokomo, IN: Best Books, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Largely a reprint magazine which started life as Fantastic Story Quarterly. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 249-250.
FANTASTIC.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1954. Octavo, single issue cover by Augusto Marin, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Includes new fiction by Robert Bloch, William Lindsey Gresham, William McGivern, and others. Fantastic was an interesting magazine with ups and downs, the first couple years under Browne's editorship and then later under Cele Goldsmith were high spots. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 221-232.
FANTASTIC.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1953. Octavo, single issue cover by W. T. Mars, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Includes new fiction by William P. McGivern, John Wyndham, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester and others. Fantastic was an interesting magazine with ups and downs, the first couple years under Browne's editorship and then later under Cele Goldsmith were high spots. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 221-232.
G-MEN.
New York: Beacon Magazines, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "King Crime" by C.K.M. Scanlon. "The new G-Men magazine was probably the most popular pulp of those featuring federal agent crime stories and enjoyed a large following of devoted readers." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 263-264.
MAMMOTH DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Compnay, 1947. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Double Cross of Death" by William P. McGivern. Fiction by Nelson Bond, W.T. Ballard, and others.
MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES.
New York: Stadium Publishing Corporation, 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Norman Saunders, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by John Beynon (Harris), Lester del Rey, Alfred Coppel and others.
NICK CARTER.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1934. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Gilford Mystery" by Nick Carter (pseudonym for Richard Wormser).
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.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1946. Octavo, single issue, cover by Parkhurst pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Include fiction by Ray Bradbury, "Defense Mech," Henry Kuttner, Gardner F. Fox 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, 1946. Octavo, single issue, cover by Parkhurst pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Ray Bradbury; "Defense Mech," Henry Kuttner, Gardner F. Fox and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
SMASHING DETECTIVE STORIES.
Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1954. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Carroll John Daly and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 510-511.
THE AVENGER.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by H. W. Scott, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Three Gold Crowns" by Kenneth Robeson (pseudonym). Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 36-39.
THE WHISPERER.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Established in the vein of The Shadow, James Gordon created the alter ego of The Whisperer, who posed as an underworld figure to fight crime. "For pulp fiction of this type, these were brutal, uncompromising stories of a type for which [writer] Laurence Donovan's gritty style was particularly suited." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 607-610. This is the final issue of the first run. The magazine was canceled in 1937 and revived in 1940 (running until 1942). Feature novel "The Lost Face Murders" by Clifford Goodrich (Laurence Donovan writing under the house pseudonym).
UNKNOWN.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contents include: "The Bronze Door" by Raymond Chandler, in which a man purchases a 'magic door' which when things go through it they disappear, which is what he does to his wife who is filing for divorce. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.