Publication: Fantastic, April 1979

Publication: Fantastic, April 1979Publication Record # 58260 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Omar Gohagen
Date: 1979-04-00
Publisher: Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc.
Price:
$1.50^?$: US dollar
Pages: 132
Format:
digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
Type: MAGAZINE
Notes: Vol 27, No 5. As noted on the fep (scanned version from archive.org), "We have conjured up some devilish aliens to tickle your imagination...". Elinor Mavor is credited for illustration and Scott Mavor as Staff Illustrator but it is not clear exactly who is responsible for the cover art and interior illustrations. The Circulation Statement on p. 67, filed 10/01/1978, gives an average total paid circulation of 18,370.

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Editor Title: Fantastic - 1979 • [Fantastic] • (1979) • edited by Elinor Mavor [as by Omar Gohagen]

Contents (view Concise Listing)

4 • Editorial: New Directions • essay by Arthur Bernhard
6 • The Beholder's Eye • short story by Jennifer H. Orr
6 • The Beholder's Eye • interior artwork by uncredited
17 • Fantastic Facts: What Is a Dark Hole? • essay by uncredited
18 • Intelligence Undying • (1936) • short story by Edmond Hamilton
18 • Intelligence Undying • interior artwork by uncredited
38 • The Last Man • (1929) • novelette by Wallace West
38 • The Last Man • interior artwork by uncredited
62 • Reluctant Genius • interior artwork by Scott Mavor
66 • Language, Logic and the Future ... • essay by uncredited
68 • Utopia? Never! • (1963) • short story by Thomas M. Disch (variant of "Utopia? Never!")
69 • Utopia? Never! • interior artwork by uncredited
72 • Unto Us a Child is Born • (1933) • short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
73 • Unto Us a Child is Born • interior artwork by uncredited
84 • A World of Whispering Wings • (1952) • novella by Rog Phillips (variant of The World of Whispering Wings)
84 • A World of Whispering Wings • interior artwork by uncredited
bc • Ooops! • short fiction by K. L. Jones
bc • Ooops! • interior artwork by uncredited

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