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AVON SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Novels Inc., 1953. Small octavo two issues, all published, cover illustrations by Leo Manso, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. This was an attempt at a revival of Avon Fantasy Reader and Avon Science Fiction Reader. Publisher Joseph Meyer and new editor Sol Cohen were to produce a quarterly with all new stories. It lasted only two issues. All stories were illustrated. Authors included Alfred J. Coppel, Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, John Christopher, John Jakes, Stephen Marlowe, Jack Vance and others. Tymm and Ashley note in both issues many of the stories had a dystopian tone and the stories were not widely reprinted. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 132-134.
AVON SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Novels Inc., 1953. Small octavo two issues, all published, cover illustrations by Leo Manso, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest size magazine. This was an attempt at a revival of Avon Fantasy Reader and Avon Science Fiction Reader. Publisher Joseph Meyer and new editor Sol Cohen were to produce a quarterly with all new stories. It lasted only two issues. All stories were illustrated. Authors included Alfred J. Coppel, Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, John Christopher, John Jakes, and others. Tymm and Ashley note many of the stories had a dystopian tone and the stories were not widely reprinted. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 132-134.
COSMOS SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY MAGAZINE. (Four issues, all published).
New York: Star Publications Inc., 1953-1954. Small octavo, four issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. All four issues of this short lived magazine. Authors include Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Poul Anderson, John Jakes, Jack Vance, Evan Hunter, Steve Frazee and others. Also an unusual appearance with an SF story in issue number two by B. Travern. All stories were sourced from the clients of the Scott Meredith agency, mainly material which was not sold to other magazines. Yet another short lived digest magazine during the 1950s explosion of such. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 533-534.
DETECTIVE: THE MAGAZINE OF TRUE CRIME STORIES.
Concord, N.H. Common Sense Publishing Co., Inc., 1951. Small octavo, two issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Billed on the front covers "A selection of the best True Crime stories, new and old." Authors include Eleazar Lipsky, Craig Rice, Lillian de la Torre, Stuart Palmer, James Thurber and others. Published by Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, these two issues are perhaps the only two published (this cataloger is unsure).
FANTASY FICTION later FANTASY STORIES. (Two issues, all published).
New York: Magabook Inc., 1950. Octavo, two issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Contains mostly reprints with title changes, most culled from Argosy from the 1930s. Authors include Theodore Roscoe, Cornell Woolrich, Richard Sale, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 266 - 267.
FANTASY MAGAZINE [later] FANTASY FICTION. (Four issues, all published).
New York: Future Publications, 1953. Small octavo, four issues, cover illustrations by Hannes Bok, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. All four issues of this short lived magazine and all signed by editor Lester del Rey (the final issue he used the pseudonym Cameron Hall). Includes two posthumous Conan stories by Robert E. Howard, edited by L. Sprague de Camp. Other authors include, Poul Anderson, Robert Sheckley, Philip K. Dick, John Wyndham, David Alexander, Clark Ashton Smith and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 268-269.
FANTASY: THE MAGAZINE OF SCIENCE FICTION. (Three issues, all published).
London: Temple Bar Publishing Co., London, Ltd., 1946-1947. Octavo, three issues, pictorial wrappers, stapled. Digest magazine. All three issues of Britain's first digest size science fiction magazine. Some highlights are first printings of "Last Conflict" by John Russell Fearn and Technical Error" by Arthur C. Clarke (issue one), "Relic" by Eric Frank Russell and "Castaway" by Arthur C. Clarke writing as Charles Willis (issue two), and "The Fires Within" by Arthur C. Clarke writing as "E. G. O'Brien" (issue three). A short lived magazine that could not hang on due to the paper shortages after WWII, reportedly only 6,000 copies were printed and all sold out. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 256-57.
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.
WHISPERS.
Browns Mills, NJ: Stuart David Schiff, 1979. Octavo, single issue, cloth. Of 376 hardbound copies this is one of 350 numbered copies signed by Fritz Leiber, Stephen Fabian, artist, and publisher Stuart Schiff. The Fritz Leiber issue. Contributors include Leiber, Glen Cook, Brian Lumley, Roger Zelazny, Dennis Etchison and others.
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.
MENACE.
New York: St. John Publishing Corporation, 1954. Small octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The first of only two issues published. Another magazine that could not find an audience as many similar short lived digests were crowded out on the newsstand rack and likely also had distributions issues. Author's include: Richard S. Prather (Shell Scott), Richard Deming, Jack Webb and others.. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 326-327.
MURDER.
New York: Flying Eagle Publications, Inc., 1956. Small octavo, single issue, cover by Frank Cozzarelli, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The first of only three issues published. Contemporary crime and murder stories. From the publishers of MANHUNT, another magazine that faced stiff competition in the marketplace and could not find a foothold. Author's include: Lionel White, Jack Ritchie, Ed Hoch and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 335-336.
ORBIT SCIENCE FICTION. (Five issues, all published).
New York: Hanro Corporation, 1953-1954. Small octavo, five issues. Digest magazine. Another short lived magazine of the 1950s boomlet. A magazine that published some quality fiction. Though Saltman was the editor he knew little about science fiction and he used Donald A. Wollheim to acquire stories, acting as a "literary editor." Author's include August Derleth, Mack Reynolds, Charles Beaumont, John Christopher, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Michael Shaara, Jack Vance and others. Derleth had a Tex Harrigan story in all five issues. The Philip K. Dick story in issue three, "The Adjustment Team" is the basis for the film "The Adjustment Bureau" (2011), Dick also had stories in two other issues. Donald A. Wollheim's (as Martin Pearson) story in the issue one "Asteroid 745: Mauritia" is "...a rare combination of SF and the supernatural and is a genuine SF ghost story." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, p 452. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 451-454.
PRIVATE EYE.
New York: Future Publications, Inc., 1953. Small octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The first of only two issues published. Crime and mystery stories with some tough guy content. Author's include: Harold Q. Masur, Stewart Sterling, Dorothy Dunn, Michael Avallone, Day Keene, Hunt Collins, Cyril M. Kornbluth an others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 428-429.
REX STOUT MYSTERY. [ISSUES 1-9: ALL PUBLISHED].
New York: Avon Book Company (1), Avon Detective-Mysteries, Inc. (2-9), 1945-47. Small octavo, nine issues, printed and pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. A complete run of all nine issues. Stout was Editor in Chief and wrote commentary for each issue. Mostly reprints by well known authors which include John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Carter Dickson, Raymond Chandler, William Irish, H. P. Lovecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper), Cornell Woolrich, Ray Bradbury, and many more. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 451-453.
SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST. (Two issues, all published).
New York: Specific Fiction Corp. 1954. Small octavo, two issues, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest magazine. The only two issues of this short lived magazine. Fiction comprised largely of reprints from other magazines. The editor also featured articles telepathy and levitation. The second issue features a cover photo of the Creature From the Black Lagoon and a short article by George Pal on science fiction films. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 533-534.
SPACE SCIENCE FICTION. (Eight issues, all published).
New York: Space Publications Inc., 1952-1953. Small octavo, eight issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Another short lived, but quality, magazine of the 1950s boomlet, done in by disagreement between the editor and publisher (which terminated all of the publishers fanstasy and science fiction magazines). Authors include Isaac Asimov, Henry Kuttner, Clifford Simak, Michael Shaara, Lester Del Rey (including pseudonyms), John Christopher, Damon Knight, Philip K. Dick, Robert Sheckley and others. Highlights include the first publication of the first of the newly discovered Conan stories which surfaced starting in the 1950s. This publication interestedly includes a short note by the editor of the story, L. Sprague De Camp, about the discovery of the story from unsold Howard manuscripts. De Camp also includes the transcript of a note which was attached to the manuscript by H. P. Lovecraft. Other notables include the publication of Algis Budrys first published story "Walk to the World" and two Philip K. Dick fictions, "Second Variety" and "The Variable Man." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 585-586.
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.
SUSPENSE: THE MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
Los Angeles, CA: Suspense Magazine, Inc., 1946-47. Small octavo, three issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The first magazine tie-in to the CBS radio drama series. Adaptation of the the radio scripts into magazine story format. This is three of the four issue published. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, p. 555.
TALES OF THE FRIGHTENED. (Two issues, all published).
New York: Republic Features Syndicate, Inc., 1956. Small octavo, two issues, pictorial and printed wrappers. Digest magazine. The only two issues of this short lived magazine. Each issue contained all original stories with authors Michael Avallone, James Harvey, John Jakes, John Wyndham, John Christopher, Hal Ellson, A. Bertram Chandler, Mack Reynolds and others. "...clearly the very magazine that a nation of Weird Tales denied readers had been waiting for." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 557-558. Sales were good but the pending demise of the mammoth distributing firm American News Company put them out of business. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 649-650.
TALES OF THE SEA.
New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1953. Small octavo, cover by Clarence Doore, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The first and only issue with fiction by John Russell, Steve Frazee, Jack London and others.
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.
WHISPERS.
Binhampton, NY: Stuart David Schiff, 1984. Octavo, single issue, cloth. First edition. Of 376 hardbound copies this is one of 350 numbered copies signed by contributors J. N. Williamson, Margo Skinner, Fritz Leiber, Hugh B. Cave, David Morrell, Susan Casper, Stuart Schiff, Dennis Etchison, and Alan Ryan. Fiction, news, reviews and other material.