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Fantastic April 1975

Fantastic April 1975

Contents
Ted White: Editorial
Fritz Leiber “Under the Thumbs of the Gods” (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) art by Stephen Fabian
Barry N. Malzberg “Dance”
Ross Rocklynne “Emptying the Plate” art by Tony Gleeson
Frank Belknap Long “Cottage Tenant” art by Michael Nally
Jack Dann “Fragmentary Blue” art by Richard Olsen
Ova Hamlet “Young Nurse Nebuchadnezzar” art by Dan Steffan
David R. Bunch “End of a Singer”
R.A. Montana “Interstate 15”
John Shirley “Silent Crickets”
Fritz Leiber: Fantasy Books
According to You
Classified Advertisements

Fantastic Sword & Sorcery and Fantasy Stories Vol. 24 No. 3 April 1975
Publisher: Sol Cohen
Assoc. Publisher: Arthur Bernhard
Editor: Ted White
Assoc. Editor: Grant Carrington
Assist. Editor: Moshe Feder, Terry Hughes
Art Director: J. Edwards
Cover: Stephen E. Fabian
5.25” x 7.75” 130 pages 75¢

On page 103 of this issue is the Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation which reveals an average distribution of 66,957 copies, of which only 23,631 are paid circulation (newsstands 22,183 and subscription 1,448). Roughly a third were sold and two thirds were returned.

Kelly Robson “Good for Grapes”
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Pulp Literature No.23

Pulp Literature No.23

Contents
From the Pulp Lit Pulpit: First of the Summer Wine
In This Issue
Kelly Robson “Good for Grapes”
Feature Interview: Kelly Robson
Matthew Hughes “What the Wind Brings”
Mel Anastasiou “Stella Ryman and the Locked Room Mystery”
Casey Reiland “An Examination of a Freckle”
Christian Walter “Wolf, Dog, Sun”
Lena Mahmoud “The Thieving Pot”
Alison Braid “Asturias” (verse)
Deborah L. Davitt “On the Sixth Day”
Susan Pieters “Black Market”
Raluca Balasa “Waltz for My Brother”
Margot Spronk “Biophilia”
Deepthi Atukorala “White Rabbit”
The Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest
Josephine Greenland “Wife Giver”
Zoe Johnson “Inherited Love of Unexplainable Things”
Lola Ridge & Chaille Stovall “Wall Street at Night” (illustrated verse)
J.M. Landels “Allaigna’s Song: Aria” Verse 23–26
The Artists (bios)
Hall of Fame (Patreon supporters)
Marketplace
Conferences and Events
Magazines
Contests

Pulp Literature No.23 Summer 2019
Publisher: Pulp Literature Press
Managing Editor: Jennifer Landels
Acquisitions Editor: Melanie Anastasiou
Story Editor: Jessica Fabrizius
Poetry Editors: Daniel Cowper, Emily Osborne
Copy Editor/Designer: Amanda Bidnall
Proofreader: Mary Rykov
Cover Design: Kate Landels
Cover Art: Akem
216 pages
POD $14.99 Kindle $4.99
Pulp Literature website

Vaughn Bodé’s Sunpot Begins
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Galaxy Feb. 1970

Galaxy Feb. 1970

Contents
Algis Budrys: Galaxy Bookshelf
Gerald Jonas “The Shaker Revival”
Theodore Sturgeon “Slow Sculpture”
A. Bertram Chandler “Sleeping Beauty”
Dennis Plachta “The Last Night of the Festival”
Robert Silverberg “Downward to the Earth” Part III
Zane Kotker “After They Took the Panama Canal”
Vaughn Bodé “Sunpot” (comic)
Galaxy Stars: Gerald Jonas

Galaxy Magazine Vol. 29 No. 5 Feb. 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 and interior art: Jack Gaughan

Galaxy Oct. 1968 Art by Joe Wehrle, Jr.
Interviews

Galaxy and If

Galaxy Oct. 1968
Galaxy Oct. 1968

Excerpt from “The Creative Works of Joe Wehrle, Jr.” from The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018. (Quotes gleened from Joe’s interviews or correspondence.)

“My first professional work involved doing spot illustrations for Galaxy and If digest science fiction magazines,” Joe said in 2010. “I had done comics and other stuff for fanzines, and I sent some clips to Frederik Pohl around 1967, asking if I could get some work from his magazines. He replied that he liked what I had sent, but could I show him something a little more subdued? So I worked up a small folio of illustrations that I felt were more in keeping with the style of those two magazines. Fred said ‘OK!’ and directed his staff to begin sending me galley proofs of stories slated for upcoming issues.

“The galleys were arriving regularly in the mail. I was really on my way! Then Galaxy Publications was sold, and the new editors sent me nothing more.”

Joe’s artwork appears in:
Galaxy Jun–Aug, & Oct. 1968
If May–Aug. 1968
Joe’s bibliography appears on the Larque Press website.

Michael Bracken's Christian Gunn
Interviews

Mike Shayne Aug. 1984

Mike Shayne Aug. 1984

Excerpt from Michael Bracken’s interview in The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018:

TDE: Your secret agent character, Christian Gunn, appeared in Mike Shayne (Aug. 1984) and again in Espionage (Feb. 1985). Was he ever used again?

MB: The fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of both Espionage and Mike Shayne ended Gunn’s career.


Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Vol. 48 No. 8 Aug. 1984
Contents
Brett Halliday “Shadows of the Past”
Amy E. Dean: How Crime Plays
Peter A. Sellers “Loss of a Faculty”
Buzz Dixon “Spiders”
Michael Bracken “With Extreme Prejudice”
Ray Bradley “The Bus Bandits”
Arthur Moore “Bird Bank Bingo”
Lane Marsh “First Security”
Mel Washburn “To Forgive is Human”
Richard E. Givan “The Curious Case of the Dead-Drunk Driver”
Ardath Mayhar “Knit Lady”
Vicki Shaull Carleton “The Prison Letters”
Mike’s Mail
Best by Mail (classified ads)

Publishers: Edward & Anita Goldstein
Editor: Charles E. Fritch
Art Director: Robin Schaffer
Founder: Lou Margulies
5.25” x 7.75” 130 pages $1.75

Western Magazine No. 1
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Western Magazine No. 1

Western Magazine No. 1

Western Magazine Vol. 1 No. 1 June 1955
Contents
Debs Smith “Firebrand”
Morgan Lewis “A Hint of Violence”
James Charles Lynch “Elkhorn’s Last Deal”
Cliff Farrell “Prairie Treasure”
William Heuman “Outlaw’s Girl”
V.E. Thiessen “Sundown Decision”
Philip Ketchum “His Brother’s Gunhand”

Editor: Harry Widmer
Business Manager: Monroe Froehlich
Art Director: Mel Blum
Art Editor: Robert C. O’Neill
Cover: Jim Bentley
~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.

Detective: Magazine of True Crime Stories Vol. 1 No. 1
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Detective No. 1

Detective: Magazine of True Crime Stories Vol. 1 No. 1

Detective: Magazine of True Crime Stories Vol. 1 No. 1 Winter 1951
Contents
Lawrence E. Spivak’s Introduction
Eleazar Lipsky “The Shield of the Innocent”
Craig Rice “Murder in Chicago”
Jackson Hite “The Orange Daniel Webster”
Edmund Pearson “Malloy the Mighty”
Laurence Dwight Smith “Incredible Dr. Brandenburg”
Lillian de la Torre “The First Locked Room”
Lewis E. Lawes “The Rose Man”
Edward Hale Bierstadt “Death Draws a Triangle”
Edward D. Radin “It Happened in Flushing”

Publisher: Lawrence E. Spivak
Editor: Edward D. Radin
Managing Editor: Robert P. Mills
General Manager: Joseph W. Ferman
Art Director: George Salter
Cover: Sid Rosenbaum
5.5” x 7.75” 128 pages 35¢

Detective: Magazine of True Crime Stories Vol. 1 No. 1 back cover
Gamma 1 New Frontiers in Fiction
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Gamma No. 1 1963

Gamma No. 1 1963

Gamma 1 New Frontiers in Fiction
Contents
Charles Beaumont “Mourning Song”
Fritz Leiber “Crimes Against Passion”
Ray Bradbury “Time in Thy Flight”
Tennessee Williams “The Vengeance of Nitocris”
A.E. van Vogt “Itself!”
Charles E. Fritch “Venus Plus Three”
Ray Russell “A Message From Morj”
William F. Nolan “To Serve the Ship”
The Gamma Interview: Rod Serling
George Clayton Johnson “The Freeway”
Herbert A. Simmons “One Night Stand”
Kris Neville “As Holy and Enchanted”
John Tomerlin “Shade of Day”
Forrest J. Ackerman “The Girl Who Wasn’t There”
Ray Bradbury “Death in Mexico” (verse)
Richard Matheson “Cresendo”

Gamma No. 1 1963
Editor & Publisher: Charles E. Fritch
Executive Editor: Jack Matcha
Managing Editor: William F. Nolan
Cover: Morris Scott Dollens
5.25” x 7.75” 128 pages 50¢

Fawn The Dark-Eyed No. 1
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Fawn in 1964

A flyer for Fawn Press, c. early 1960s.
A flyer for Fawn Press, c. early 1960s.

Excerpt from “The Creative Works of Joe Wehrle, Jr.” from The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018. (Quotes are from Joe’s correspondence.)

By 1964, already an accomplished illustrator, Joe began work on a comic strip, Fawn the Dark Eyed. In the series’ earliest incantation, Fawn was also dark haired. “Fawn started as a self-published fanzine in ’64. We had a number of pages in color, which was unusual at that time—only one or two other people experimented with color in their fanzines.”

I know of only two issues, but as the ’70s dawned, Ed Aprill, Jr., who published a series of comic strip reprint books of Buck Rogers and The Spirit, showed interest. “At one point Ed was talking about doing a high-quality 9” x 12” book with a new Fawn story, and I had actually started work on it when he was killed in a car crash.” A tragic set-back, but Joe continued drawing and writing, with Fawn always in mind.

Joe’s bibliography appears on the Larque Press website.

Featured image: Fawn The Dark-Eyed No. 1 1964