Volume 1 numbers 1 4 (9 risultati)

Octavo, four issues, covers by Joe Kubert and Jack Kirby, pictorial wrappers. All published. Features the character the Avenger from the pulps. Stories by Denny O'Neil with art by Al McWilliams, Jack Kirby. Text paper edges toned, small ink stamp to front cover,slight edge wear, a very good to nearly fine copy. (33011).…

Octavo, four issues, printed wrappers. The first four issues of the first series. A very good set. (#81191).

Octavo, four issues, pictorial wrappers. The four issues published before the magazine was sold to William Crawford, renamed WITCHCRAFT & SORCERY, and emphasis placed on sword and sorcery and dark fantasy, instead of light fantasy. Parnell, Monthly Terrors, p. 37. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 175-178. Very mild tanning to text paper of all issues; except for a small chip from the fore-edge of the front cover of the first issue, all issues are in fine condition. (#176510) The lot.…

Octavo, four bound issues, printed wrappers bound in cloth. All published. Notable about this first revival of the magazine was the biography of William Hope Hodgson by Sam Moskowitz published in the first three issues. Also included in all four issues were rare Hodgson stories that Moskowitz unearthed. [Reference: Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 727-736]. Tanning to text paper, other nearly fine issues with covers in bound volume. (35741).…

Small octavo, nine issues, printed and pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. A complete run of all nine issues. Stout was Editor in Chief and wrote commentary for each issue. Mostly reprints by well known authors which include John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Carter Dickson, Raymond Chandler, William Irish, H. P. Lovecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper), Cornell Woolrich, Ray Bradbury, and many more. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 451-453]. All issues are nearly fine to fine, several with cover creases with the exception of issue number two which is very good. Complete runs are uncommon. (24234). …

Octavo, four issues, pictorial wrappers. Issue 1 is signed by Price and artist Stephen E. Fabian; issue 4 is signed by Fabian. Fine copies. (#173127). Signed.

Small octavo, six issues, printed wrappers, stapled. Six of the nine issues of this short-lived companion magazine to STARTLING MYSTERY STORIES which printed new and reprint fiction. Lowndes' important long essay on SF, collected in book form as THREE FACES OF SCIENCE FICTION (NESFA Press 1973), appears in issues 2-4. Very mild tanning to text paper of all issues; all issues are in fine condition. One of the more uncommon Health Knowledge magazines (#176512). …

Octavo, five issues, original orange wrappers printed in black. Five issues of a literary periodical modeled largely on the American magazine STORY, edited by Whit Burnett and Martha Foley. The six-member Editorial Board included H. E. Bates, Arthur Calder-Marshall and Edward J. O'Brien, founder and editor of the long-running series of annual anthologies, THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF [19--]. Contributors to these issues include Stephen Spender, L. A. G. Strong, Benjamin Appel, John Lehmann, Dylan Thomas ("The Enemies"), H. A. Manhood, Guy Dent, and others. Yapp edges of three of the issues are somewhat ragged, spines a trifle sunned, but quite good copies overall. (#128321).…

Octavo, four issues, pictorial wrappers, stapled. The first four of the five issues. One of the better fanzines, approaching (or equaling in some instances) the quality of content of the SF specialty pulps of the 1930s. The impressive list of contributors includes, August Derleth, H. P. Lovecraft, David H. Keller, Frank Belknap Long, Robert E. Howard ("The Garden of Fear"), Robert Bloch (first printing of "Lilies," his first published story, originally submitted to WEIRD TALES and rejected by Farnsworth Wright), P. Schuyler Miller ("The Titan"), Clifford D. Simak ("The Creator"), John Beynon Harris, Amelia Reynolds Long, Carl Jacobi, Ralph Milne Farley, and others. Moskowitz, The Immortal Storm, pp. 22-3. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 66. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 401-04. Staples removed from second issue, all issues are in fine condition. (#177057). …