A COSMIC' PUBLICATION VOLUME 2 NUMBER 15 SUNDAY APRIL 2 1939 ■ •• WHOLE HUMBER 41 SCIENCE FICTION^MONTHLY see page five

ASTOUNDING FACTS tion about yourself, please answer, it, for it means that you have been After last week1s report that AST­ chosen as one of the fans to be in­ OUNDING1 s circulation hid dropped, cluded in this volume. Bob Forman- we investigated ind found that the ek1s magazine will deal entirely circulation of ASTOUNDING has been with fantastic poetry - A motion going stendly up since Inst year & will be brough before the QUEENS has, in fact, gone off the top of..' SFL to form a soft ball team, to the graph that Campbell drew for challenge the PSFS Panthers,soft- it. The last of ASTOUNDING on.the ball stf fan team of Philadelphia, newstnnds in Newark is being invest to a play-off game, as one of the icated by SRTEET & SMITH. . - features of the WORLD SCIENCE FIC­ Gladney is‘doing both Che coming TION CONVENTION. CHARLES D. HORNIG Moy and June issues of ASTOUNDING. editor of SCIENCE FICTION will do­ Coils of Time by P. SEhuyler Miller nate a dozen or so scientifilm cops the May cover, while HERMIT 01 stills for auction nt the conven­ MARS does likewise with the June tion. The big ’’RED LETTER”, day of cover. - Probably to be found the Convention has definitely been in the June issue of ASTOUNDING are set as SUNDAY JULY 2nd,1939, at WHEN THE FUTURE DIES by Nat Schnch- which time the super film, METROP­ ner - DONE IN-OILS, another Josh OLIS will be shown Mcnab yarn, by Arthur J Burks. I n Ml Ml Ml , Ml , the July : issue will be found BLACK . DESTROYER’ by a new writer. OVERFLOW by SAM MOSKOWITZ L Ron Hubbard has SLAVES OF SLEEP, in the June issue of UNKNOWN..The THE TOAD, a short story by David cover of both the June and May iss^ H. Keller MD contlined in the latest ues of UNKNOW are by Scott. Other issue of STRANGE STORIES was orig­ tales in the June number are, THE inally scheduled to appear in the SUMMONS by a “new writer named Don now defnct FANTASY MAGAZINE Evans - DON’T GO HUNTING by -Robert HARBOR WHISTLES the poem by H P Coley and GNERLY MAN by L.S.deCamp. Lovecraft in the latest issue of WEIRD TALES appeared originally in the old fan magazine, THE PHAN- C 0 N V -E N T I 0 N- -•* F A C T _S TAGRAPH • . - Such pen-names af regular authors ns Robert Castle Ted Dikty1s convention magazine wi­ John Coleridge, Don Passente, con­ ll be titled WHO’S WHO IN SCIENCE tained in the latest issue of SCI- FICTION FANDOM. If you. receive a SNCE FICTION are’’stock” pen names circular letter requesting informal of the company. They are used in a PAGE TWO FANTASY-NEW half-a-dozen or more publications, who lives not too far way, about and serve, individually, ns pen 125 miles, He will still contin­ names for an ever increasing number ue ns Radio Editor of FANTASY-NEWS of writes - through on.er­ sending us the news via Air Mail. ror, the author of -the; story in the He plans to come in for the Con­ first number of SCIENCE FICTION,»HE vention, if at all possible, jvt MACHINE THAT THOUGHT,* wns ommitted at the front of the story. The ed­ itor noting this before the entire BOOK NEWS FROM BRITAIN number of copies hid been run off, by J. M. ROSENBLUM had it corrected, and now states that copies of SCIENCE FICTION with A new addition to the sixpenny and without that particular author’s pnper-bncked series of popular v name was circulated. Which have you? novels issued in this country is Newstand reports indicate that THE DEVIL RIDES OUT by Dennis FANTASTIC ADVENTURES is selling am­ Wlxentley, a story of modern satanion azingly well, and more important in England. Published by Hutchinsonst newstand men say that a class of PENGUIN BOOKS announces the pub­ people, who never before bought a lication in April of two more re­ copy of n science fiction magazine I prints in a 6d (12/) series, of ar,e waxing enthusiastic over FAN­ interest to fantasy fans. These TASTIC ADVENTURES. They think it is] are: CAN SUCH THINGS. BE by Ambrose the first magazine of science.fic­ Bierce and George Bernard Shaw* s tion ever published. What a laugh BACK TO METH£SALAH;.the breathtak­ on the small size advocates ing epic of the future development The fourth issue of FANTASY' DIGEST of Humanity • jmr will have a special hard paper cov­ er and will be mailed flat like NEW FANDOM, in an envelope. A special NEWSHORT by JIM AVERY array of surprize material, and different methods of presentation In the March issue of the French is promised. - The essay by yours semi-pulp mag, LECTURES POUR TOUS, truly commemorating the third ann­ starts a future war-air novel by iversary of THE SCIENCE FICTION Gaston Pastre, entitled* ”LES AVIONS COLLECTOR will be titled DEEP PUR". DE LA MORT”. The author is hailed PLE*. It will be a vertible rhapsody in the blu_rbs as the ’’new” Jules TrTpurple and will attempt to turn Verne and. anticipator*.I True to the'COLLECTOR into n living,throbb­ form, the.first installment ends ing^ entity - PAUL is said to with, ’’nous nurons la guerre avec have dropped the job of illustrat­ l*Allmagne dans un moisV’ It is ing MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES and suggested that NY-NJ members ask DYNAMIC SCIENCE STORIES, because Willy Ley if he knows anything a- his work with SCIENCE FICTION does bout this story. Included in the hot leave him enough time sm same issue of the mag is an article on sea-serpents. ja WALTER SULLIVAN TO LEAVE NEW YORK STARTING WITH TUB JUNE ISSUE (THE -Walter Sullivan, member of THS SECOND ANNIVERSARY ISSUE) JANTaSY- 'QUEENS SFL and RADIO EDITOR of SCOUT will feature a cover drawn FANTASY-NEWS, will leave New-York . by a different artist every month. on April 10,1939 for-his mother’s Walter Marconette will do the first farm near Bristow, Oklahoma. While, one, John Giunta, the second and there he hopes to visit, Dan Mcpnil so on. Is FANTASY-NEWS PAG*> TH iVgR I PROFESSIONAL SCJENCE-FICTION RATING^ by HARRY WARNER Jr

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NEWS FLASHES by HARRY WARNER Jr fan-a-mag review by LOUIS KUSLAN There will definitely be an Aust­ ralian fan nag soon* Its publisher SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTOR: Vol 4 will be John Decern, the rung’s na­ #5 Jan - Feb 1939 - small size,20 me to be SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW, well hecto’d pages* Excellent cov­ priced at 3d (6/). Issued bi-month er by Baitadonis - The material in­ ly, it will consist of 8 or 10 cludes “Scrambled Titles” by Hart hectoed pages* Most of the mater­ ‘’Signing the Petition1,1 an outdated ial will be by Australian fans. article on why he signed the peti­ The 4th issue of FANTASY DIGEST tion nt the 1st National Convention will consist of 20 large size pag­ by John Weir - “Typewriter Tappings es, hectoed, with TWO covers, by by E Dale - The extremly interest­ Marconette and Maskwitz* Inner ma­ ing “Eternal Wanderer” by 0 Train­ terial by Moskowitz-Warner-& many man Mag Review” - A very interest­ others-plus regular departments hw ing column “Fantaglimmerings” by Bob Madle - “The Reader’s Say” - A short article on FANTASTIC ADVEN­ FANTASTIC ITEMS by WALTER SULLIVAN TURES. - Altogether a fairly good issue, tho not worth 10/ - Edited “The Man From Mars” by Paul on the by jVBaJ.t adonis - 1700 Frankford bock cover of FANTASTIC ADVENTURES Ave - Philadelphia - PQ. IE was copied from another “Martian Paul did for the cover of the Aug. You can get all 193$ issues of AS­ 1924 issue of SCIENCE AND INVENT Id TOUNDING - all 1938 issues except A few minor changes wbbs made, but Feb. - July-Aug-Sept-Oct-Nav 1936 they are still almost the same. issues-All 1939 so far - None 1935 1934 or before. Price 20/ postpaid From ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION FOR SALE w THE SCIENCE FICTION (BACK ISSUE DEPARTMENT) 79-89 7th SCOUT - Vol 2 #1&2 50 Write Ave - New York - New York % FANTASY-NEWS-137-07 32 Av Flush PAGE FOUR FANTASY-NEWS FANTASY-NEWS is published every SCIENTIFILMS week by James V Taurnsi - 137-07 by MARIO RACIC Jr 32nd Ave - Flushing - New York 3 issues ‘for 10/ - 6 issues for 2/ Orson (The Martians are ncming) in England by Inter, money order Welles, will probably play the lead JAME'S V TAURAS I editor. in the RKO retake of "THE HUNCHBACK SAM MOSKOWITZ * MARIO RACIC assort OF NOTRE DAME"------Roland”TOPPER" Young, will appear on the April 4th Bob Hope program------REVIVALS: RADIO NOTES "WHITE*ZOMBIE", 1932 supernatural by WALTER SULLIVAN film, starring Bela Lugosi, at the Luxor, 156 Bleecker St.., NY., Apr­ The first in the series of "ARCH il 4 th.------Fans, send in your OBOLER’S PLAYS" was held last Sat- entries for the Second STFILM cont­ March 25-. The play, entit led-"THE est. There is plenty of time yet.— UGLIEST MAN IN THE WORLD", was in­ Browsing around our stf collection spired by BorisKarloff• In-spite we name" across some old SCIENCE & of all that his been slid about it INVENTION issues, which contain STF it did resemble "LIGHTS OUT" very FILMS material. The issue of DEC. much. However, it did differ, in 1930 devotes several pages tc the that it hid -a happy ending. It deli fantasy musical "JUST IMAGINE" , with the life of a very ugly man showing the'- Rocket ship leaving the who was scorned by everyone. He be Earth, also a scene of the twin friended a blind girl who. fell in (one good, &r one bad) Martians.'----- love with him, nhd decided to kill The MAY 1925 isuue has dozens --of himself when he found she would, scenes of the A. Conan Doyle pre­ see again. She stopped him in time history "THE LOST WORLD".—This is­ and told him that it did not make sue also has the fantasy film "PET* any difference whit he looked like. PAN".- ——The NOVEMBER 1923, is­ The play was very well acted,a nd sue dovetes a page to the film . produced, and Mr. Oboler has again "RADIOMANIA*; a story- of a scientist proven that he is probably the best who; contacts Mars, ’ ,‘W radio, the .writer of this type of ploys in Martians, are shown as monstrosities '.radio today. with enormous ears. ------Last■Thursday, James Hilton,author of ‘’LOST’HORIZON" was. heard o n Rudy Vdlley1s program. On the pro­ N E W-F A N D 0 M gram for March 30, Rudy and Claud The fourth issue of this magazine Rnin.es^The Invisible Man) were hen will be out next week. This is the rd in a play by Arch Oboler. finest 5f them''all, well mimeographs Sunday night also had its share of with a fine 2 color never by John interesting programs. Madeline Car Giunta.: Don* t miss this swell issue rol and Don.Ameche were starred in. of NEV/ FANDOM... Join NEW FANDOM and "THE LITTLE’THINGS. YOU DID" a play get- the magazine free. Dues ar.e ’ dealing with, mental* telephathy on only $1.00 a year. Write, the /CHAM.•& SANBORN'PROGRAM*. The, ‘ SAM MOSKOWITZ play was. later replayed by Charlie 603 So'. 11th' Street McCarthy and Edward Everett' Horton ...... Newark, New Jersey Later in the evening, Basil Rath- bone(The son of. Frankenstein) and ADVERTISE. IN FANTASY-NEWS ', ” the mag­ Maureen 0*Sullivnn ('Tarzan’s mate) azine with the largest circulation dramatized part of "DEATH TAKES A in stf fandom. HOLIDAY" on THE CIRCLE. ws