• Publication: Psychotic, October 1953Publication Record # 856921 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editor: Richard E. Geis
• Date: 1953-10-00
• Publisher: Richard E. Geis
• Price:
  $0.10^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 42
• Format:
  quarto^?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
• Type: FANZINE
• Notes: Information from Science Fiction Review. #4. Mimeographed, no wraps, side-stapled. Page numbers include covers. There are 9 unnumbered pages between numbered pages 4 and 9. Page 19 is not numbered, and there is no page 20. Pages after 34 are not numbered, there are 4 of them. No TOC. "The Observation Ward" reviews fanzines. "Section 8" is letters. The first word in the title of the article on p.31 is unreadable.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Psychotic, October 1953 • interior artwork by
  Vaughn Bodé^?Vaughn Bode
  and Bill Dignin and Richard E. Geis
• 3 • The Leather Couch (Psychotic, October 1953) • essay by Richard E. Geis
• [5] • Philcon—2 • essay by Charles Harris
• [8] • Stapling the Fanzine • essay by Raleigh Evans Miltog
• 9 • The Observation Ward (Psychotic, October 1953) • essay by Richard E. Geis
• 14 • Run for the Hills • essay by Richard E. Geis
• 16 • Fan Fiction: An Opinion • essay by V. Paul Nowell
• 18 • Unquiet Bones • poem by Isabelle E. Dinwiddie
• [19] • Progress • short story by William L. Freeman
• 23 • Unca' Stewart Says (Psychotic, October 1953) • essay by Robert Stewart [as by Bob Stewart]
• 24 • Section 8 (Psychotic, October 1953) • essay by Richard E. Geis
• 24 •  Letter to Psychotic, October 1953 • essay by W. J. Reynolds [as by Bill Reynolds]
• 26 •  Letter to Psychotic, October 1953 • essay by V. Paul Nowell
• 26 •  Letter to Psychotic, October 1953 • essay by Vernon L. McCain
• 28 •  Letter to Psychotic, October 1953 • essay by Larry Balint
• 30 •  Letter to Psychotic, October 1953 • essay by Richard Bergeron
• 31 • ...Call a Professional • essay by Henry Moskowitz
• 32 • An Unfair Filler • poem by Richard E. Geis
• 33 • A Bit of Hebephrenia • essay by Richard E. Geis
• 34 • 2nd Session • essay by Richard E. Geis
• bc •  Psychotic, October 1954 • interior artwork by Richard E. Geis