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• 4 • Editorial: The Magazines; The Way It Is • essay by A. L. Caramine
• 6 • The Broken Stars • [Star Kings] • novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• 7 •  The Broken Stars • interior artwork by Dan Adkins
• 37 • Ball of the Centuries • short story by Henry Slesar
• 40 • The Mental Assassins • (1950) • novelette by Rog Phillips [as by Gregg Conrad]
• 40 •  The Mental Assassins (reprint) • (1950) • interior artwork by Harold W. McCauley (variant of The Mental Assassins) [as by H. W. McCauley]
• 78 • The Disenchanted • (1954) • short story by John Hillyard and Wallace West
• 78 •  The Disenchanted • (1954) • interior artwork by Sanford Kossin
• 84 •  Cartoon: "A trifle daring, don't you think?" • (1954) • interior artwork by Carl Geren
• 89 •  Cartoon: no caption • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 93 •  Cartoon: no caption • (unknown) • interior artwork by uncredited
• 96 • The Usurpers • [The Usurpers] • (1950) • novelette by Robert W. Krepps [as by Geoff St. Reynard]
• 96 •  The Usurpers (reprint) • (1950) • interior artwork by Leo Summers
• 124 • The Prophecy • short story by Bill Pronzini
• 126 • The Collectors • (1953) • short story by G. Gordon Dewey and Peter Grainger [as by Gordon Dewey]
• 126 •  The Collectors (reprint) • (1953) • interior artwork by Harry Rosenbaum
• 138 • 2001: A Space Odyssey • essay by Laurence M. Janifer [as by Laurence Janifer]
• 139 • The Rhyme of the SF Ancient Author or Conventions and Recollections • poem by John R. Pierce (variant of The Rhyme of the SF Ancient Author, or Conventions and Recollections) [as by J. R. Pierce]
• 141 • Fantasy Books (Fantastic, December 1968) • [Fantasy Books (Fantastic)] • essay by Fritz Leiber
• 141 •   Review: Picnic on Paradise by Joanna Russ • review by Fritz Leiber
• 141 •   Review: Space Chantey by R. A. Lafferty • review by Fritz Leiber
• 142 •   Review: Mulata by Miguel Ángel Asturias • review by Fritz Leiber