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MARVEL TALES. (All published).
Everett, PA: Fantasy Publications, 1934-1935. Octavo, five issues and one duplicate, pictorial wrappers. A complete run of one of the better semi-pro magazines, approaching (or equaling in some instances) the quality of content of the SF specialty pulps of the 1930s. The first issue features "The Cossacks Ride Hard" by August Derleth, "Celephais" by H. P. Lovecraft, "Binding Deluxe" by David H. Keller, and other material. Issue two features "The Dark Beasts" by Frank Belknap Long and "The Garden of Fear" by Robert E. Howard. Issue three feature the first printing of "Lilies," Robert Bloch's first published story, he was seventeen at the time of this publication, (originally submitted to Weird Tales and rejected by Farnsworth Wright). This issue also includes "The Golden Bough," a weird fantasy by David H. Keller. Issue four includes a reprint of "The Doom that Came to Sarnath," a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Also includes "The Creator" by Clifford D. Simak (its first appearance in print) as well as fiction by P. Schuyler Miller, George Allan England (a reprint), John Beynon Harris, and Amelia Reynolds Long. The fifth and final issue includes Miles J. Breuer, Carl Jacobi, Ralph Milne Farley and Anders W. Drake, part three of "The Titan" by P. Schuyler Miller, part two of "The Nebula of Death," a reprint serial by George Allan England. Two copies of issue two are included, each with different cover are. Moskowitz, The Immortal Storm, pp. 22-3. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 66. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 401-04.