“Once people know you’ve taken your clothes off for money, they never treat you the same.”
“My Stripper Past” by Michael Bracken Pulp Adventures No. 28 Winter 2018
Excerpt from “The Creative Works of Joe Wehrle, Jr.” from The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018:
Joe’s book jackets for Mirage Press, include Is the Devil a Gentleman? by Seabury Quinn (1971), Asimov Analyzed by Neil Goble (1972), Revised H.P. Lovecraft Bibliography by Mark Owings (1973), and Fantastic Art of Clark Ashton Smith by Dennis Rickard (1973). “These seem to be the things that older fans remember to this day, and still mention in letters and email. This work led to jackets for Arkham House publishers, and record jacket art for Lava Mountain,” Joe once wrote.
Joe’s portrait of Clark Ashton Smith for Mirage Press is shown here. In 1973, it ran on the inside front cover of the Fantastic Art of Clark Ashton Smith by Dennis Rickard, with an introduction by Gahan Wilson, and as the cover of Planets and Dimensions: Collected Essays of Clark Ashton Smith edited by Charles K. Wolfe.
Joe’s bibliography appears on the Larque Press website.
Contents
Leo Margulies’s Big Shayne Coming UP
Brett Halliday (unknown ghost writer) “A Challenge in Corpses”
Will Cotton “A Long Time Dying”
Jonathan Craig “Sunday’s Slaughter”
Thelma L. Beach “The Frightened Passenger”
Tedd Thomey “Brother, Brother . . .”
Theresa Anne O’Malley “No Questions”
William Campbell Gault “I’ll Be Waiting”
Richard Deming “Comfort for the Grave”
Peter Cheyney “He Walked in Her Sleep”
Michael Shayne Mystery Magazine Vol. 1 No. 5 Jan. 1957
Publisher: Leo Margulies
Editor: Sam Merwin, Jr.
Managing Editor: Cylvia Kleinman
Production: Joan Sherman
5.25” x 7.75” 160 pages 35¢
Contents
Ejler Jakobsson: I Will Fear No Evil
Carl Jacobi “The Player at Yellow Silence” art by Jack Gaughan
John Brunner “Out of Mindshot” art by Jack Gaughan
William Rotsler “Ship Me Tomorrow” art by Jack Gaughan
Algis Budrys: Galaxy Bookshelf
— T.L. Sherred Alien Island
— David Guy Compton The Steel Crocodile
— Philip José Farmer Lord Tyger
Hayden Howard “Oil-Mad Bug-Eyed Monsters” art by Jack Gaughan
Duncan Lunan “The Moon of Thin Reality” art by Jack Gaughan
Robert Silverberg “The Tower of Glass”* Part III art by Jack Gaughan
Lawrence Mayer “Children’s Crusade”
Galaxy Stars: William Rotsler art by William Rotsler
Galaxy Magazine Vol. 30 No. 3 June 1970
Publisher: Arnold E. Abramson
Associ. Publisher: Bernard Williams
Editor: Ejler Jakobsson
Editor Emeritus: Frederik Pohl
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
EQMM is 75 years old. An amazing publishing feat for any magazine. The December issue continues its tradition of outstanding short mystery fiction with the final 75th Anniversary edition. This issue’s insightful Editorial by Janet Hutchings reviews the founding scope of the magazine and its expansive role in today’s ever-challenging marketplace.
“Bloodstained Glass” by Richard Helms, art by Mark Evan Walker
From the Editor’s Desk: Beyond Boundaries by Janet Hutchings
“Nothing Matters But Matter” by Sheila Kohler
The Jury Box by Steve Steinbock reviews:
The English Teacher by Yiftach R. Atir
The Kingdom by Fuminori Nakamura
I Shot the Buddha by Colin Cotterill
Mr. Campion’s Fault by Mike Ripley
The Hemingway Thief by Shaun Harris
Kilt at the Highland Games by Kaitlyn Dunnett
The Goddaughter Caper by Melodie Campbell
Survivors Will Be Shot Again by Bill Crider
and special mentions of
Rhythm and Clues by Sue Ann Jaffarian
The Question of the Felonious Friend by Jeff Cohen and E.J. Copperman
A Killer’s Guide to Good Works by Shelley Costa.
“The Unseen Door” by Margery Allingham
“A History of Snakes” by Tom Tolnay
“The Truth of the Moment” by E. Gabriel Flores (Dept. of First Stories)
“Catspaw” by Peter Tremayne
“Dream Wedding” by Sarah Weinman (From Our Archives)
“With Eyes Like That” by Robert S. Levinson
“Ghosts of Bunker Hill” by Paul D. Marks, art by Allen Davis
“Stranger in the Night” by Hilde Vandermeeren (Passport to Crime) translated by Josh Pachter
2016 EQMM Readers Award Ballot
Index to Volumes 147 & 148
Bill Crider’s Blog Bytes returns next issue.
Final issue of the 112-page editions. Beginning in Jan/Feb 2017 EQMM went bimonthly with double-sized 192-page issues.
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Vol. 148 #6, whole #903, Dec. 2016
Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Senior Assistant Editor: Jackie Sherbow
VP Design & Production: Susan Mangan
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Jill Hartley/iStockphoto.com
112 pages
$4.99 on newsstands until December 20, 2016
The Mystery Place: Ellery Queen
An excerpt from Steve Carper’s series “One-and-Dones” that appears in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7–9:
The Jackie Robinson Story was a hit movie starring Jackie Robinson in 1950. It was co-written by Arthur Mann. And so we come across the movie tie-in digest, which was also titled The Jackie Robinson Story and published by F.J. Low.
Now Available from McFarland: Steve Carper’s Robots in American Popular Culture, a comprehensive reference volume that includes a companion website: robotsinamericanpopularculture.com.
Excerpts from Ted White’s editorial:
“Last issue, in a last-minute decision after the issue had been completely made up and was ready to print, we raised our cover price from 75¢ to $1.00 a copy. We had hoped to avoid this move, having raised our price from 60¢ only a year and half earlier. However, economic realities made it necessary—I do not think I need to tell you that the rate of inflation in our economy in the last year has been frightening.”
“We could not increase the number of our pages, paper costs being what they are, but we have decreased the size of our type—going from 10-point type for the stories to 9-point, which adds in equivilent wordage an extra two stories to this issue. This is a permanent change, and it means more fiction every issue.”
Contents
Best By Mail (Classifieds)
Ted White: Editorial
Avram Davidson “The Church of Saint Satan and Pandaemons” art by Richard Olsen
Lin Carter “The City in the Jewel” art by Stephen E. Fabian
George Alec Effinger “Lydectes: On the Nature of Sports” art by Joe Staton
Vsevolod Ivanov “Sisyphus, Son of Aeolus” translated by John W. Andrews, art by Tony Gleeson
Barry N. Malzberg “The Thing Down Hallway 9”
James Lincoln Warren “The Purvess Incident” art by Marcus Boas
Colin Saxton “The Flyer” art by Colin Saxton
Richard Stooker “The Pi-a-saw Bird” art by Michael Nally
Felix C. Gotschaulk “Pandora’s Cryogenic Box”
David R. Bunch “The Strange Case of the Birds”
L. Sprague de Camp: Literary Swordsmen & Sorcerers (The Architect of Camelot)
Fritz Leiber: Fantasy Books
According to You (Letters)
Classified Advertisements
Fantastic Sword & Sorcery and Fantasy Stories Vol. 25 No. 1 December 1975
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
5.25” x 7.75” 130 pages $1.00
Excerpt from “The Creative Works of Joe Wehrle, Jr.” from The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018.
“Around that time [early 1970s] I also illustrated one script for Warren Publications’ Vampirella, and wrote one for them which was beautifully delineated by Esteban Maroto. I found Warren Pubs hard to deal with, though, slow with the money and critical of the work, although I thought I did a fairly good job for my first pro comics work. They ran the Wehrle/Maroto story over and over, but I never saw a nickel after the $12.00 or so they originally paid for the script.”
Joe’s first story, “Monster Bait,” written by Don Glut, appeared in Vampirella No. 9 (Jan. 1971). “Wolf Hunt” written by Joe and illustrated by Esteban Maroto first appeared in Vampirella No. 14 (Nov. 1971).
Joe’s bibliography appears on the Larque Press website.
Contents
Ralph E. Vaughan “The Adventure of the Abominable Inn”
S. Subramanian’s An Indian Nobody’s Affair with Mr. Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street
Chris Chan “Of Course She Pushed Him”
Thomas J. Belton “The Murderous Wood”
Teel James Glenn “The Case of the Final Interview”
Jack Bates “Casualty of the Bidding War”
Josh Pachter “The Two-Body Problem”
David Wiseman “Hemingway’s Hat”
Bruce Harris’ The Reigate Squires Scrutinized
M. Bennardo “Rousseau’s Children”
Michael Mallory “The Adventures of the Seven Nooses”
S. Subramanian “Counterpunch” (Bull-Dog Drummond)
Vincent W. Wright’s Words on a Page
J.R. Underdown “The Body Pillow”
Laird Long “Cater-Wail” (You-Solve-It)
Mystery Weekly Magazine Oct. 2019
Publisher: Chuck Carter
Editor: Kerry Carter
Cover: Robin Grenville-Evans
7.5” x 10” 151 pages
POD $9.95, Kindle $5.49
Mystery Weekly Magazine website
Contents
Brett Halliday’s (Leo Margulies?) The Heel’s the Thing
Brett Halliday (Sam Merwin, Jr.) “Mark Me for Murder” (Mike Shayne)
Mann Rubin “The Gold Ring”
George Fielding Eliot “Emergency Call—State Police”
De Forbes “The Secret Secret Secret”
Kenneth Fearing “Shadow of Fame”
Margaret Manners “Hard Way Out”
David Margerson “Cyanide Cocktail”
Walt Sheldon “The Silent Weapon”
W.T. Ballard “Crescent City Blues”
Val Morrow “The Black Box”
Michael Shayne Mystery Magazine Vol. 1 No. 4 Dec. 1956
Publisher: Leo Margulies
Editor: Sam Merwin, Jr.
Managing Editor: Cylvia Kleinman
Production: Joan Sherman
5.25” x 7.75” 160 pages 35¢