Magazine
ALL MYSTERY.
New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1950. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. The first and only issue. Fiction by George Harmon Coxe, Helen McCloy, William Irish - "Rear Window," Ray Bradbury and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, p 23.
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AMERICAN AGENT. [ALL PUBLISHED].
New York: Republic Features Syndicate, Inc., 1957. Small octavo, two issues, all published, covers by Bob Maguire and Victor Olson, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Spy fiction with original material. Featured a lead novel and shorter pieces. Lyle Kenyon Engel is listed as editor but the actual editorial work was by author Michael Avallone. The first issue lead novel was by John Jakes which was re-worked later as a Nick Carter paperback. The well received magazine lasted only two issues as it and it's sister magazines were done in by a strike. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 26-27.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The first sf story by L. Ron Hubbard, "The Dangerous Dimension" appears. Stories by Clifford Simak, Ross Rocklyne, Ray Cummings, Raymond Z. Gallun, conclusion of the serial novel The Legion of Time by Jack Williamson. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Arthur J. Burks, Victor Rousseau, Edmond Hamilton, Murray Leinster and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Captain S.P. Meek, Harl Vincent and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The second issue. Stories by Victor Rousseau, Harl Vincent, Hugh B. Cave and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Arthur J. Burks, Harl Vincent, Captain S.P. Meek, Murray Leinster and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Victor Rousseau, Ray Cummings, L.A. Eshbach and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Victor Rousseau, Ray Cummings, Captain S.P. Meek and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Jack Williamson, Don A. Stuart, John Taine and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Feature serials are The Skylark of Valeron (part 7) by E.E. Smith and The Mightiest Machine (part 3) by John W. Campbell, Jr. Stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum, Frank Belknap Long and Don A. Stuart among others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
AVON FANTASY READER.
New York: Avon Book Company (later Avon Book Company, Inc., Avon Publishing Co., Inc., and Avon Novels, Inc.), 1947-52. Small octavo 18 issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. A complete set of the Avon Fantasy Reader which consists of 18 issues. Editor Donald Wolheim and the publisherJoseph Meyers considered these to be books rather than a magazine an anthology series and they brought to a mass audience some of the great genre fiction. The story selection came from a wide range of pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, All-Story and Argosy, Thrill Book, Astounding and Amazing as well as stories from hardcover book publications. Authors included William Hope Hodgson, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, M. R. James, Ambrose Bierce, A. Merritt, Algernon Blackwood, C. L. Moore, Fritz Leiber and many more. A few original stories were printed, including A. E. Van Vogt, Carl Jacobi, A. Merritt, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard and most notably "Ylla" by Ray Bradbury, part of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines, p. 124-132.
AVON SCIENCE FICTION READER.
New York: Avon Novels, Inc., 1951-1952. Octavo, three issues, pictorial wrappers. First edition. All published. Short lived digest which relied mainly on reprints from older magazines which was unable to compete with Galaxy and F & SF. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 134-35.
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1946. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A Black Bat novel, "With Malice Aforethought" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59.
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1949. Octavo, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A Black Bat novel, "Thirty-One Deadly Guns" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59.
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A Black Bat novel, "Captains of Death" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). Espionage and Nazi theme story, cover depicts a woman being threatened with a red hot brand of a swastika. "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59.
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Toronto: Better Publications, Inc., 1947. Octavo, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Canadian issue. A Black Bat novel, "The Long Ago Murder" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59.
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A Black Bat novel, "Without Blood They Die" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). An espionage story involving a fifth column plot. "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59.
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A Black Bat novel, "The League of Faceless Men" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). Also stories by Carroll John Daly and Johnston McCulley. "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59.
SINGAPORE.
Chicago: Century Publications, [1947]. Small octavo, two publicity photos and fifteen film stills, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Century Mysteries No. 37. Digest sized format. Photoplay edition. Novelization of the film SINGAPORE from the screenplay written by Seaton I. Miller and Robert Thoeren from an original story by Seaton I. Miller. Cover depicts Fred MacMurray and Ava Gardner. Stills from the film throughout. Hubin, p. 83.
"The Other Foot." In NEW-STORY.
New York: Gargoyle Press, Inc., March 1951 (number 1). Octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. The first appearance in a magazine of this classic story about racism and forgiveness set in the future on Mars after Earth is ruined by the Third World War. This story was first published in February 1951 in THE THE ILLUSTRATED MAN. However, the release of both was probably more or less simultaneous. Its first appearance in an anthology was in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1952, edited by Martha Foley (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952). Foley also collected this story in FIFTY BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES: 1915-1965 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965). The first separate edition was published in 1982 by The Perfection Form Company as a paperbound booklet. Nolan, pp. 114, 197, 275, and 280.
OTHER WORLDS SCIENCE STORIES.
Evanston, IL. Clark Publishing Company, 1950. Small octavo, single issue, cover by Malcolm Smith, pictorial wrappers. Digest size magazine. Includes "Way in the Middle of the Air" by Ray Bradbury, one of the Martian Chronicles.
THE FOUR FALSE WEAPONS.
New York: Novel Selections, Inc., [1945]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. paperback edition. Detective Novel Classic No. 40. Digest sized format. This is an abridged edition. In the 1940s after splitting with Curl, Hillman launched his own digest lines, seeing the writing on the wall for pulp magazines after the war Hillman essentially considered the digests as paperbacks.
POISON IN JEST.
New York: Novel Selections, Inc., [1944]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. paperback edition. Thriller Novel Classic No. 23. Digest sized format. This is an abridged edition. This novel features Patrick Rossiter. In the 1940s after splitting with Curl, Hillman launched his own digest lines, seeing the writing on the wall for pulp magazines after the war Hillman essentially considered the digests as paperbacks.
CONFLICT: STORIES OF SUSPENSE.
New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing, Co., 1953. Small octavo, single issue, cover by Von Dongen, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The first and only issue of the digest. Includes original fiction by Charlotte Armstrong, William P. McGivern, Roy Huggins and others. Also includes a "Hollywood Confidential" article by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, p. 105.