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AMAZING STORIES.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1928. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. The first appearance of the "scientifiction" logo on the cover, this logo was later adopted in more modern times by the members of "first fandom." This issue also includes part two of the serial "The Skylark of Space" by E. E. Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby. Other authors include Harl Vincent, David H. Keller, Fletcher Pratt and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc., 1931. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features stories by Arthur J. Burks, R.F. Starzl and Ray Cummings. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
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.