N E W S PRICE: tHKKR VJHILE ISSUES IT’S FANTASY-I TEN HOTI the science fiction weekly newspaper. CENTS l-VOLUME 5, NUMBER 15 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1940 WHOLE NUMBER 120 TALBOT MUNDY, FAMOUS AUTHOR, DIES! H.L.COLD « OSCAR J.FRIENO ARE OF FILE EMPLOYEES OF STANDARD PUBS. Talbot Mundy, well-known.ad venture writer and, on occassions, pseudo-science author, has passed H.L. Gold and Oscar J. Friend on. Mundy had reached a position who have been doing so many cover of great prominence before his yarns for THRILLING WONDER STORIES demise, and was recognized as one lately are now revealed to be reg of America’s finest narrators of ular staff employees of STANDARD romantic adventure. Publications. A cover, ordered at the last minute, will oome in and no story on file will fit it. TAINE’S ’’GREEN FIRE” PMcDUCED’. Either Friend or Gold are then John Taine’s great novel of quickly drafted to Create a yarn the near destruction of the Earth about the cover in double-quick by atomic di-sint regrat ion has been time. The results have been truly adapted and produced as a play. remarkable. Leo Margulies, Negus of STANDARD’S Leo Margulies, STANDARD’S group of mags, recently picked up genial chief, also revealed that a copy of the play in (of all Mort Weisinger does not do the places) a second hand book shOpl lion’s share of the work on the The play has been produced several various mags.He claims that about times in the better amateur thea ten fellows in the office share trical circles, usually by college ■the labor and that the result is groups. It was produced by a what we view in the fantasy books school in Pasadena, California. published by STANDARD. Storie-s must be O.K’d. by at least three ODD ITEMS by FN Reporters. Fanfare, published by Art Wid readers before acceptance, and ner and the members of the Cam none of the novels are accepted bridge, Mass. Stranger Club, will without the author first submit b e ou t next Sunday, Oct 13. (aw) ting and having accepted an Thos. S. Gardner, popular fan outline by Margulies himself. and author, has had a research art TWS will shortly pursue an icle published in the Journal of entirely new policy. The lead the American Chemical Society in novel will be put up in front of . ollaboration with M. L. Wolfrom as ■ the book in standard ten point I art of his work in the Chemistry type instead of the usual eight. Lab at Ohio State University.(wss) The length will be increased from John J. Ricci of Brooklyn, N.Y 20,000 to 30,000 words. Novelets js starting the Brooklyn Science will no longer be accepted, and Fiction League. He has five mem after those on hand are used up, bers, one of whom is a reporter for only the long novel and several the New York Heral Tribune.(ao) shorts will see print. Models of prehistoric monsters were on sale at the Alchemist Cor MATER PIRATE MYSTERY SOLVED’. ner of the Pastorama exhibit at the Graph Waldeyer, well knowh stfan, has received a check for his n.Y. World's Fair, (ao) A' five minute total eclipse of yarn ’’Beings Like These"'. which wu the sun took place on Oct 1, visible appear in the