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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.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Toronto: Fictioneers, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, Canadian issue, issued simultaneously with the U. S. edition with identical story content, editorial control in New York. Includes "Impossible" by Ray Bradbury. Other fiction by John D. MacDonald (2 stories-one as John Wade Farrell), Neil R. Jones, Fredric Brown and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
CARTOONS MAGAZINE.
Chicago, Illinois: H. H. Windsor Editor and Publishers, December 1916. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Cartoon representation from both the U.S. and foreign sources. Commentary and cartoons about the recent election, much about the ongoing war in Europe. A feature piece on Dutch artist Louis Raemaekers at the front.
IMAGINATIVE TALES later SPACE TRAVEL. (Twenty six issues, all published).
Evanston, IL: Greenleaf Publishing Company, 1954-1958. Small octavo, 26 issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. This magazine initial started out with fiction leaning toward the humorous with a note of 'spice,' as evidenced by the titillating covers by Harold McCauley over the first seven issues. In the fall of 1956 the magazine moved to more conventional stories. In the waning days of the magazine the editor tried to move to a more serious image with the age of Sputnik and changed the title to Space Travel, in which the magazine lasted only three more issues. Authors included Robert Bloch, Edmond Hamiltion (some pseudonymous), Steven Marlowe (under pseudonym), Robert Silverberg (some pseudonymous), Randall Garrett, A. Bertram Chandler, Margeret St. Clair, Harlan Ellison and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 347-350.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Fictioneers, Inc., 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes John D. MacDonald with two stories, the second as by Peter Reed. 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. Includes John D. MacDonald with two stories, the second as by Peter Reed. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
MAGAZINE OF HORROR. (Thirty-six issues, all published).
New York: Health Knowledge Inc., 1963-1971. Octavo, thirty-six issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. This publication included new and reprint fiction. Reprints coming mainly from the pulps and with the knowledgeable editor and his two consultants Robert A. Madle and Sam Moskowitz, stories long out of print and virtually unobtainable were reprinted. Lowndes was also able to print stories by some old time writers which had been unpublished. Editor Lowndes was also able to capitalize on the resurgence of Robert E. Howard of the mid 1960s with publication of several unpublished stories including a Conan story (Spring 1967, #15). Newer material included writers as Stephen Goldin, Joanna Russ, Roger Zelazny, August Derleth, Joseph Payne Brennan, Robert Silverberg, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 391-395.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1954. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "James P. Crow" by Philip K. Dick. 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., 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.
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, 1954. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by Robert Sheckley. 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, 1954. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by Robert Sheckley. 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, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Leigh Brackett story. 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, 1955. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas. pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by Algis Budrys, Poul Anderson 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, 1954. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas (mistakenly credited to Algis Budrys), pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Leigh Brackett story as well as early fiction by Michael Shaara (who would write THE KILLER ANGELS). 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.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Fictioneers, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Impossible" by Ray Bradbury. Other fiction by John D. MacDonald (2 stories-one as John Wade Farrell), Neil R. Jones, Fredric Brown and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
SCIENCE AND INVENTION.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc., 1922. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes a Dr. Hackensaw story by Clement Fezandie. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 500-04.
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.
MYSTERY MAGAZINE: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE [COVER TITLE].
Chicago, IL: Tower Magazines, Inc., 1934. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Fiction by George Harmon Coxe, Guy Endore, Hulbert Footner 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., 1933. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. "The Murder Club" by H. Bedford Jones. Also fiction by Herman Landon, Barry Perowne 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., June 1934 (volume 9, number 6). Large octavo, single issue, cover by Charles de Feo, pictorial wrappers. Contributors include Ellery Queen ("The Two-Headed Dog," a weird mystery story later collected with others in THE ADVENTURES OF ELLERY QUEEN), Francis Beeding, Stuart Palmer, Henry Lacossitt, Carl Mattison Chapin (his full-length novel, THE IMPERFECT TWINS), 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, Illinois: Tower Magazines, Inc., June 1935 (volume 11, number 6). Large octavo, single issue, cover by John Atherton, pictorial wrappers. Fiction by Francis Beeding, Whitman Chambers, Chapin Howard, George Harmon Coxe (a hard-boiled mystery story by a prolific writer for the pulps, including BACK MASK), Hulbert Footner, and Raymond Leslie Goldman (his full-length novel, IN THE DARK OF NIGHT); articles by Edward Hale Bierstadt, Theodore Dreiser ("I find the Real American Tragedy"), 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, pictorial wrappers. Fiction by Ellery Queen, Francis Beeding, Stuart Palmer, 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.