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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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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 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.