“He felt the anxiety that smothered the fort move into his throat where his yellow kerchief was knotted, and down into his middle where his service belt held a holstered Colt and field kit.”
“The Fight at Lost Horse Springs” by Gardner F. Fox Western Magazine September 1955
The best in independent humor magazines is now available in its twelfth issue.
Among other topics, Ted White discusses two spoken-word record albums in this editorial this issue— Robert E. Howard: From the Hells Beneath the Hells (Alternate World Recordings) and Robert E. Howard’s Conan (Moondance Production). After his comments about the albums themselves he contemplates their future:
“Still, I wonder how great the market is for spoken-word recordings in our field. Such records cannot be used as “background music,” they demand one’s total attention. In this day and age, is anyone ready to give up half and hour or more of his or her time in order to listen to spoken recordings? How many times can one play and enjoy such records before tiring of them?”
The problem was the media. Vinyl isn’t portable. Now that spoken word recording have gone digital, their popularity has soared. A perfect accompaniment to driving or exercise or a slew of other tasks.
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Ted White: Editorial
Randall Garrett “The Sixteen Keys” art by Richard Olsen
Best By Mail
Robert Thurston “One Magic Ring, Used” art by Joel Pollack
George R.R. Martin “The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr” art by Steve Fabian
Karl Edward Wagner “Two Suns Setting” art by Jeff Jones
Michael F.X. Milhaus “In a Pig’s Eye” art by Steve Fabian
J.J. Russ “Pinnoke” art by Roy Comiskey
Jack Haldeman & Jack Dann “Limits” art by Tony Gleeson
Kendall Evans “The Day I Lost It”
Fritz Leiber: Fantasy Books
—A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Andersson
—The Not-World by Thomas Burnett Swann
—Xelucha by M.P. Shiel
—From Evil’s Pillow by Basil Copper
—Stories of Darkness and Dread by Joseph Payne Brennan
—Dreams from R’Lyeh by Lin Carter
—Citadels of Mystery by L. Sprague and Catherine C de Camp
—Fantasy Collector’s Annual 1974, 1975, and The Fire-Fiend and the Raven edited by Gerry de la Ree
—The Bradbury Companion by William F. Nolan
According to You (Letters)
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
Classified Advertisements
Fantastic Sword & Sorcery and Fantasy Stories Vol. 25 No. 3 May 1976
Publisher: Sol Cohen
Assoc. Publisher: Arthur Bernhard
Editor: Ted White
Assoc. Editor, Emeritus: Grant Carrington
Assist. Editors: Lou Stathis, Terry Hughes
Art Director: J. Edwards
Cover: Steve Hickman
5.25” x 7.75” 130 pages $1.00
“Here he [J. Edgar Hoover] tells the almost unknown story of Kathryn Kelly, under whose evil guidance her husband, Machine-gun Kelly, rose to eminence in the criminal world. Mr. Hoover omits one interesting detail. It was while Machine-gun Kelly was seeking to escape the noose being closed about him by Hoover, that he coined the phrase by FBI Agents have since been known—G-Men.”
True Crime Detective Vol. 2 No. 1 Winter 1952
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Irving Gitlin “Mr. Big and the Waterfront”
J. Edgar Hoover “Woman Behind the Crime”
Edward D. Radin “The Killer Who Wasn’t There”
Patrick Quentin “Last of Mrs. Maybrick”
Dorothy D. Doyle “Portrait of the Monster as a Young Man”
Jackson Hite “The Invisible Cord”
Richard W. Fredericks “Body Under the Couch”
Arthur Train “The ‘Due de Nevers’”
Rex Ainsworth’s Here’s the Answer: “Case of the Severed Hand”
Publisher: Lawrence E. Spivak
Editor: Edward D. Radin
Managing Editor: Robert P. Mills
General Manager: Joseph W. Ferman
Art Director: George Salter
Cover: Dirone Photography
5.5” x 7.75” 128 pages 35¢
Excerpt from my tribute, “The Creative Works of Joe Wehrle, Jr.” from The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018:
“In 1989, my wife Karen and I came up with the idea of producing a monthly Cartoon Trader, which would focus on the buying and selling of newspaper comic strips, the way the Comics Buyer’s Guide mainly concerns itself with comic books. Unfortunately, we were never able to get enough ads to make it a really substantial-looking monthly or to make it the self-supporting venture we’d hoped for, so we had to discontinue it after just a few issues. We did create several continuing features for the magazine, though—classic cartoonist trading cards, retrospectives, paper dolls (Trina Robbins sent us some outfits!) and a monthly page of original comic strips.”
Today, Cartoon Trader’s ads offer only a passing glance at yesterday’s prices, but Joe and Karen loaded each Trader with such charming original content it’s still fun to read today.
Joe’s bibliography appears on the Larque Press website.
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L.L. Foreman “Gunslingers of the Cibola” art by Carl Burgos
Joseph Chadwick “Trouble with the Tough Tollivers” art by Matt Baker
Todhunter Ballard “Dark Kill” art by Carl Burgos
Western Magazine Vol. 2 No. 3 October 1956
Publisher: Martin Goodman
Editor: Harry Widmer
Business Manager: Monroe Froehlich, Jr.
Art Director: Mel Blum
Art Editor: Carl Burgos
~5.5” x 7.75” 160 pages 35¢
Read Peter Enfantino’s story-by-story recap of Western Magazine in The Digest Enthusiast No. 8.
Crime Syndicate Magazine No. 2 May 2016
Dietrich Kalteis “Bottom of the Ninth”
Matt Andrew “The Song Remains the Same”
Mike O’Reilly “Fight in the Dog”
Preston Lang “The Counselor”
Michael Bracken “Sugar”
Stephen McQuiggan “Thunderstone”
J.M. Taylor “Secrets in the Snow”
Jinapher Hoffman “Jackpot Blue Thistles”
Nick Kolakowski “Stickup”
Edited by Dietrich Kalteis and Michael Pool
5” x 8” 142 pages
$7.99 Print, $2.99 Kindle
Crime Syndicate Magazine website
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Ejler Jakobsson: Asbestos, Too
Robert A. Heinlein “I Will Fear No Evil” Part I art by Jack Gaughan
Robert Silverberg “The Throwbacks” (Urban Monad) art by Jack Gaughan
Lauri Virta’s Containers for the Condition of Man with photos by Leroy Woodson
Wilma Shore “Goodbye Amanda Jean” art by Jack Gaughan
Galaxy Stars: Anne McCaffrey
R.A. Lafferty “The All-At-Once Man” art by Jack Gaughan
Dannie Plachta “The Hookup” art by Jack Gaughan
Andrew J. Offutt “Ask a Silly Question” art by Jack Gaughan
Anne McCaffrey “Sittik” art by Jack Gaughan
Algis Budrys: Galaxy Bookshelf
— Anne McCaffrey The Ship Who Sang
— C.L Moore Jirel of Joiry
Galaxy Magazine Vol. 30 No. 4 July 1970
Publisher: Arnold E. Abramson
Assoc. Publisher: Bernard Williams
Editor: Ejler Jakobsson
Science Editor: Donald H. Menzel
Feature Editor: Lester del Rey
Managing Editor: Judy-Lynn Benjamin
Art Director: Franc L. Roggeri
Assoc. Art Director: Jack Gaughan
Cover: Jack Gaughan
5.25” x 7.75” 160 pages 60¢
Most of the Mike Shayne short novels that appeared in his digest magazine were ghost written under the Brett Halliday pseudonym. But this issue features the first of a three-part series presenting a brand new full-length novel by Davis Dresser himself. “Weep for a Blond Corpse” ran in the Feb., April, and June 1957 issues. This issue was the last one with “Michael,” in the title; it was strictly ”Mike” from here on.
Brett Halliday’s Goal to Go! (intro)
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Brett Halliday “Weep for a Blond Corpse” part one
Veronica Parker Johns “The Cannibal Oxen”
Lee E. Wells “Desert of Death”
Robert O’Niel Bristow “The Naked Trap”
Jay Carroll “A Dress for May Lou”
Irving Burstiner’s Find the Detective (puzzle)
Henry Slesar “The Right Kind of House”
Samuel W. Taylor “Night of the Full Moon”
Robert Bloch “The Real Bad Friend”
Frank Kane “The Rumble”
Michael Shayne Mystery Magazine Vol. 1 No. 6 Feb. 1957
Publisher: Leo Margulies
Managing Editor: Cylvia Kleinman
Production: Joan Sherman
5.25” x 7.75” 160 pages 35¢
“When money runs out, you have no choice. You need the nickels and dimes you can grub for the warm, mellow stuff, and you can’t afford to waste them for a pad.”
“The Death of Me” by Evan Hunter Manhunt Detective Story Monthly Sept. 1953
