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SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY.
Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Milton Luros, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Reaching for the Moon" by S[alvatore]. A[lberto]. Lombino, who would change his name to Evan Hunter and become well known using his pseudonym "Ed McBain" - this is his first published story. Other authors in this issue, George O. Smith, Stephen Marlowe, Lester Del Rey and other. 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.
MACKILL'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE [U.S. ISSUE].
London: Todd Publishing Group, Ltd., 1953. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Well regarded mystery magazine which featured largely reprints featuring top-notch writers. The first few U.S. issues were U. K. issues with over printed U. S. prices, but that changed from April 1953 onwards (with printed printed price of .35). At that point the U.S. volume numbers did not match the date/volume numbers of the U.K. editions. This issue includes Erle Stanley Gardner, Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Graham Greene and others. See Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 310-311.
MOVIE MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
Hollywood, CA: Anson Bond Publications Incorporated, 1947. Small octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. The final issue of this short lived magazine. This issue is notable for a novelization of "The Chase," a film noir based on the Cornell Woolrich novel THE BLACK PATH OF FEAR. This novelization is uncredited. Also included in this issue is a short article featuring stills from classic horror/monster films. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 334-335.
REX STOUT MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York: Avon Detective-Mysteries, Inc., 1946. Small octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. Digest sized magazine. This issue includes "They Can Only Hang You Once," a Sam Spade story by Dashiell Hammett and "Rats in the Walls," by H. P. Lovecraft. Other fiction by John Dickson Carr, William Irish, Dorothy Sayers and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 451-453.
SCIENCE WONDER QUARTERLY.
Mount Morris, IL. Stellar Publishing Corporation, 1930. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. The third of three issues with this title, after this issue it become Wonder Stories Quarterly. Includes "The Stone From the Moon" by Otto Willi Gail. Also includes an early work by Clare Winger Harris, "The Ape Cycle." Harris today is noted for being one of the first (if not the first) female writer who started her career in sf genre magazines. Her work often featured strong female characters and she is today recognized as being an early feminist in the field. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 763-766.
SCIENTIFICTION: THE BRITISH FANTASY REVIEW.
Ilford, Essex: Walter H. Gillings, 1937-1938. Octavo, six issues, printed wrappers, stapled. Six of the seven issues published (lacking issue number 2, April 1937) prior to merging with Doug Mayer's TOMORROW. "SCIENTIFICTION is still one of the most important fanzines ever produced in Britain and is now an invaluable source of news about prewar SF. Moskowitz called it 'a superb effort,' while Warner considers it 'one of the most ambitious fanzines in history.' With his expertise as a journalist, Gillings was able to produce a highly readable magazine useful both to those inside and outside SF. Apart from news and reviews presented in professional newspaper style, the magazine also contained interviews, photographs and critical articles. It is an essential reference aid for the serious researcher." - Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, p. 841. Includes interviews with John Beynon Harris, Festus Pragnell, Olaf Stapledon, Eric Frank Russell, John Russell Fearn, and Benson Herbert, plus articles by John Beynon Harris, John Russell Fearn, Eric Frank Russell, Arthur C. Clarke, and David H. Keller, a notice of the death of H. P. Lovecraft, "Campbell's Plans for ASTOUNDING," and other material. Moskowitz, The Immortal Storm (1974), p. 101. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 103. Warner, All Our Yesterdays, p. 84.
SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY.
Kokomo, IN: Standard Publications, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Emsh (Ed Emshwiller), pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Leigh Brackett, Gordon R. Dickson and others. The third of five issues. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 591-599.
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.
THE HOWARD COLLECTOR. [ALL PUBLISHED].
Pasadena, TX: Glenn Lord, 1961-1973. Small octavo, printed wrappers. All published. A major source for material by and about Robert E. Howard. Many Howard poems, letters and fragments of fiction are printed here for the first time. Most issues are scarce, especially the early numbers.
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 "Planet Entity" by Clark Ashton Smith and E. M. Johnston, "Asteroid of Death" by Neil R. Jones, "The Struggle for Pallas" by J. M. Walsh (a sequel to "Vandals of the Void"). Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 763-766.