FANTASTIC.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1953. Octavo, single issue cover by Robert Frankenberg, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Includes new fiction by Richard Matheson, Henry Kuttner, C. M. Kornbluth, John Wyndham and others. This issue also features and Edgar Allan Poe story unfinished at his death, here completed by Robert Bloch. Fantastic was an interesting magazine with ups and downs, the first couple years under Browne's editorship and then later under Cele Goldsmith were high spots. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 221-232]. Mild tanning to text paper, loss at base of spine panel and slight loss at head of spine, some cover creases, a very good copy. (26850). Item #26850
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