Publication: Fantastic Adventures No. 4

Publication: Fantastic Adventures No. 4Publication Record # 599548 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Howard Browne
Date: 1950-12-00
Publisher: Thorpe & Porter
Price:
1/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: 132
Format:
pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
Type: MAGAZINE
Cover: Fantastic Adventures No. 4 by Robert Gibson Jones (variant of Fantastic Adventures, September 1950)
Notes: • Date from Tuck • Identical to the September 1950 US edition, but deleting the last 14 pages • Contains only one ad, a UK one and the Derleth story runs right through to the back cover

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Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

7 • Warrior Queen of Mars • (1950) • novelette by Rog Phillips [as by Alexander Blade]
43 • A King Passes ... • (1950) • essay by L. A. Burt
43 • A Matter of Size • (1950) • essay by Jon Barry
45 • Detonator • (1950) • short story by Walt Sheldon
53 • Vee G-String! • (1950) • essay by A. Morris
53 • Californium No. 98 • (1950) • essay by J. R. Marks
55 • The Ship Sails at Midnight • (1950) • short story by Fritz Leiber
69 • The Slow Advance • (1950) • essay by Carter T. Wainwright
71 • The Last Bounce • (1950) • novelette by William Tenn
93 • Flying Eggbeater • (1950) • essay by A. T. Kedzie
93 • Power Tube • (1950) • essay by June Lurie
95 • No Head for My Bier • (1950) • short story by Lester del Rey
111 • Tooth and Fang • (1950) • essay by H. R. Stanton
111 • Prediction Verified • (1950) • essay by William Karney
113 • Lorelei Street • (1950) • short story by Rog Phillips [as by Craig Browning]
142 • A New Frankenstein? • (1950) • essay by Lynn Standish
126 • The Fifth Child • (1950) • short story by August Derleth

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