• Publication: The Alchemist, Summer 1940Publication Record # 856356 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editors: Charles Ford Hansen, Lewis B. Martin
• Date: 1940-00-00
• Price:
  $0.10^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 70
• Format:
  octavo^?5.5" by 8.5" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
• Type: FANZINE
• Cover: The Alchemist, Summer 1940 by Hannes Bok
• Notes: • Volume 1, Number 3. • Data from The FictionMags Index.

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 5 • As the Alchemist Sees It (The Alchemist, Summer 1940) • essay by Lew Martin
• 7 • The Philosophical Novels of Olaf Stapledon • essay by John B. Michel
• 16 • As 'Twas Told to Me • short story by Harry Warner, Jr.
• 20 • The Science Fiction Glossary • essay by Alfred J. McKeel
• 22 • A Matter of Location • short story by Joseph Nordlohne
• 26 • Random Ramblings (The Alchemist, Summer 1940) • essay by Arthur L. Widner, Jr.
• 31 • Trials and Tribulations of Three Amateur Hacktographers • essay by Charles Ford Hansen [as by Chuck Hansen]
• 37 • Have You Read These Books? • essay by Robert A. W. Lowndes [as by Robert W. Lowndes]
• 41 • Deft Deception • essay by Lew Martin
• 43 • Man's Double in Ancient Egypt • essay by Walter J. Daugherty [as by Walter James Daugherty]
• 45 • The Oldest Medical Book in the World • essay by Walter J. Daugherty [as by Walter James Daugherty]
• 47 • The Astral Body • essay by Roy Hunt [as by R. V. Hunt]
• 48 • The Satanists • essay by Roy Hunt [as by R. V. Hunt]
• 51 • Book List (The Alchemist, Summer 1940) • essay by uncredited
• 52 • Collector's Corner (The Alchemist, Summer 1940) • essay by Eugene Maxson
• 56 • The Music of the Spheres • poem by Harry Warner, Jr.
• 57 • Kingdom • poem by Bess Foster Smith
• 58 • The Strange and Distant Lands • poem by Fred W. Fischer
• 59 • Midnight • (1940) • poem by Arthur L. Widner, Jr.
• 60 • Stf Gets in Your Eyes • poem by Forrest J. Ackerman [as by 4e]
• 61 • The Retort Bubbles (The Alchemist, Summer 1940) • essay by The Readers
•  Letter (The Alchemist, Summer 1940) • essay by Steve Takacs
•  Letter (The Alchemist, Summer 1940) • essay by Harry Warner, Jr. [as by Harry Warner]
•  Letter (The Alchemist, Summer 1940) • essay by Arthur L. Widner, Jr. [as by Art Widner]
•  Letter (The Alchemist, Summer 1940) • essay by Alfred J. McKeel [as by Al McKeel]
•  Letter (The Alchemist, Summer 1940) • essay by T. E. Dikty [as by Ted Dikty]
•  Letter (The Alchemist, Summer 1940) • [Letters: Sam Moskowitz] • essay by Sam Moskowitz
•  Letter (The Alchemist, Summer 1940) • essay by Tom Wright
•  Letter (The Alchemist, Summer 1940) • essay by Rajocz
•  Letter (The Alchemist, Summer 1940) • essay by Joe Fortier