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a A COSMIC. PUBLICATION VOLUME 2 NUMBER 20 SUNDAY MAY 7 1939 WOLE NUMBER 46 0 WONDER STOPS USE OF NaME ON WON ience was Karl Freund, cameraman of DER COMICS METROPOLIS - who was interviewd from the floor by the Secy of the cinema THRILLING WONDER STORIES settled society, himself n scientifictionist, out of court, with WONDER COMICS,ir who ihformd the elite gathering that relation to the use of the name n group of science fiction fans was WONDER on WONDER COMICS. WONDER attending the performance! (to clear COMICS has agreed to drop the name up any cdhfusion concerning'the .NEW ?nd use WONDERWORLD COMICS as then FANDOM statements . that its is title. They, WONDER COMICS, will the only print of METROPOLIS.avail- also have to change quite a bit th able in the USA, this is" no dout so eir ‘feature Cartoon, -WONDER MAN be ns that shown in Los Angeles was a. fore presenting it again- as it is lean from the N Y Museum of Modern n-direct copy of THE SUPERMAN car Art) 2 super scrap bks of stills toon, in ACTION■COMICSi You’ll note irom METROPOLIS - personal property that in the current second issue, af Director Fritz were on dis which must be off the stands by play, Enthused 4SJ: ”1 CAN’T WAIT June 15. that THE WONDER MAN is not TO GET TO ’TH CONVENTN & SEE IT in itj. but that another science AGAIN!” * : ww fiction, cartoon takes it’s place,- YARKO THE ’GREAT. The second issue of... W0NRE.R .COMICS wns allowed to OTHE VISASCREEN appear -because it had already been print.edyand the company faced the Eando Binder has placed DELAYED, loss of thousand of dollars had it VISION with AMAZING STORIES, and V been stopped from appearing on the Campbell has taken Leiber’s TWO stands,, jvt ADVENTURE for UNKNOW. Leiber'is the son of the famous, screen .star, Fritz Leiber, (remember him in 0 LASEL ’’METROPOLIS PaRTY" HUGE ■ LOUIS PaSTEUR”?) ' ■•..SUCCESS’. 0 CONSENSUS (A NEW REGULAR DEPT) Turnout of 22 imagi-Natives- includ by Dale Tarr ing Henry Kuttner, Russ Hodgkins, T. Bruce Yerke, Pogo, Paul Free- Perhaps I should explain just ’ hafer, Pred Shroyer, Ray Bradbury,' what I am going to try to do in Franklyn Brady, Perry Lewis & - - this column, before launching it/ ’ from out of the past, & ’Frisco - - Briefly it is, this; I shall try to‘ Jim Nicholson, a name of fame ;10 yi gpresent as interesting as possible-, ago. a greatirne was had by nil nt my personal.viewpoints, forecasts, the ’’Metroparty” arranged by F JA- and reviews of the science fiction" • ckerman’ nt the Academy Thrhter, field in general. So to work. Hollywood, 28 Apr* One face- in 6 w- 3About the MayJ39 Astounding: Would a stfan’sl for the intimate show it-he out of order for me to fore house seats only 150.' In the nud-- - cast that a coming (Continued P 3) PAGE TWO FANTASY-NEWS FANTASY-NEWS is proud to present have otherwise not been written# a new news column: There will be a new contest be gun shortly in AMAZING. It will <SEEING PAIMER deal with the letters sent in by by W- Lnwrence Hamling the reader. The best letter each month will be given absolutely The second issue of FANTASTIC ADVEN free, an original illustration TURES will, hit the stands on May 19 by artists FUQUA or KRUPA. So, It is one of the finest things in fans, sharpen up your pens and stf th it his come out in years*. Leo pencils and get ready for this Morey is on the cover - - and the unprecedented feature. Here's Pointing is remine.scent of the your chance to add some beautiful "good old days”. It is done in four art stf works to your collection! colors. The back cover portrays the Watch the late issues of AMAZING MAN FROM VENUS by the inimitable for the date of the contest!! Paul, and this painting, also done The NEW A'DAM will be published in in four colors, is a veritable the near future, in BOOK formT mast erpiecel Palmer informs me that the story, This is the lineup: Believe it or somewhat over sixty thousand words, not, bur EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS has a is pretty 'sexy' in ports. I won complete novel in the issue entitl der how the fans will greet it? ed;, THE SCIENTISTS REVOLT L It is RALPH MILNE FARLEY, whose real /na one of the most unusual stories me is, ROGER SHERMAN HOAR , is n ever writtent direct descendent of ROGER SHER- Ed Earl Repp cops the cover with a MAN who wrote the Declaration of great interstellar novelet entitl Independence! I ed, INVATERS FROM SIRIUS, Take note The circulation of AMAZING STORIES of this story alsc:, Jumped nineteen thousand on the The rest of the issue is os foll first issue under the ownership ows: THE GOLDEN AMAZON by Thornton of ZIFF-LAVISK This issue was the Ayre, THE MONSTER FROM NOWHERE by JUNE 1938 issue. Since then, the Nelson S Bona, Intrigue In Lemuria, circulation has Jumbed over FIVE a sequel to Adventures in Lemuria. THOUSAND with EVERY issuellAMAZ- by Frederick Arnold Kummer Jr. ^nd ING now has a 1 irger circulation SHE WALKED ALONE by John Russell than any other stf magazine on Fearn. the market! The picture serial has been dropped FANTASTIC ADVENTURES has been met and also, the 'human interest'ill with such utter enthusiasm, by the ustrations . By the way, palmer in fan world, that it will soon go forms me that approximately 90^ of monthly! HURRAH! now we are assur story titles have been changed be ed of at least one large size fore publication . It seems that magazine* whl most authors incline towards the 'Jawbreaker' variety, Nelson S Bond has sold a forty th $T0 THE STF CONVENTION OR BUST ousand word story to AMAZING entit led DELUGE. Watch for itu Robert Southern California stfans defin Bloch has sold a story to AMAZING itely known to be coming to t h e which will be used shortly^ The WORLD SCIENCE FICTION COWENTION vote on the latest AMAZING for the are the Angelenos Forrest J Acker best story is so fir tied between man, Myrtle R. Douglas (Morojo) & WORLD WITHOUT LEATH, and THE WHIST Franklyn ”Lr Acula” Brady. There LING LEATH. This contest has brou is a strong possibility that ”Lr ght in many good stories that might- Acula's Dawter” , otherwise Ray FANTASY-NEWS PAGE THREE o PROFESSIONAL SCIENCE - FICTION RAT INGS by HARRY WARNER UNKNOWN' MAY 1939 Volume One Number Three RETURN FROM HELL T 4% C 17^ P 33% N 33% Total 87% DANGER IN THE DARK 2 16 31 36 85 THE MISSING OCEAN 4 16 26 34 v80 V THE CLOAK 3 18 34 37 92 THE PIPING DEATH 1 15 24 35 751 V V/HATEVER 4 16 25 36 81 DIVIDE AND RULElp2 5 19 32 36 92 total for the entire magtiziite 89% / title T * narration N - characterization’C - plot P / •? » o TO THE ST F,‘CONVENTION OR BUST ruot GOLDEN FLEECE with his’ first continued-- story, A TORCH IS LIGHTED. It is •’Hollerbochen” Bradbury, can & will not 'iltogether inpossible thnt we mny have some science fiction by accompany Brady; & that old-timer him,t on. Pavl; Freehafer of Pasadena may be able to-make it, ns well as. Perry Nelson Bond has knocked success Lewis of Glendale, pal of Squires© fully at the door of THRILLING 4SL plans something in the way of WONDER STORIES with a short. He is a Convention publication, which turning diligently to stf . probably will be PREPOSTEROUS j-uess that’s enough for an opener. dt a large-size mimeod collection of •w reproductions of original drawings of baroque - beings of imaginary 0 U A R V E L FACTS worlds, selected from the private by John Giunta works of the late Geo Herbert Wymnr w Here is the complete contents of the^5th issue of MARVEL SCIENCE a CONSENSUS continued STORIES, now on the press. A book- lenght novel, OARK INVASION by F Analytical Lab will place them as A Kummer, an’ unusal novellette, follows: ONE AGAINST THE LEGION, HOUK OF JUDGEMENT by R DeWit Miller MELODY AND MOONS, THE DAY IS DONE, Short stories ire DISAPPEARING SAM EMPLOYMENT, COILS OF TIME, SPECIAL by RR Winterbothim, DUST by L a FLIGHT. But personally I place the Eshback and LIGHTNING STRIKES ONCE story EMPLOYMENT in third place. I by Hari Vincent, the cover, this liked it along with de Camp*s ar issue is by J w SCOTT. The third ticle which is being rather well issue of DYNAMIC SCIENCE FICTION liked around here. Incidentally is being delayed, reason unknown. de Camp has given us the futuristic Jg eqivalent of the modern heeby-jeeb- ies or d. t.’s. While I’m thinking of de Camp I might wonder just who O COME TO THE CONVENTION ON IULY 2 Lyman Lyons is - - - or am I wrong? and have the time of your life* Arthur’Tanner, brother of the stf If you are a science fiction fan author, Chirles R Tanner, has ‘st- L you’ll not want to miss this rrpnt event. Make arrangements now.-5 PAGE POUR FANTASY-NEWS 0 AUSTRALIAN TOPICS • > -people, one of whom had never rend by Marshall L McLennan ' any of the Conan stories, and the other of whom said he didn’t care The Australian radio weekly, RADIO much for hhm.However, the latter TIMES'is featuring H G TOLS famous seem interested in the introductory story, WAR'OF THE"WORLDS.