1 Challenger #39 Guy & Rosy Lillian, editors * 154A Weybridge Circle, Royal Palm Beach FL 33411 *
[email protected] * 318/218-2345 * Spring 2015 CONTENTS “Beasts” by Richard Wilbur 3 “Monsters into the City”: An Editorial GHLIII (illo by Carl Gafford) 4 The Thing – Part II GHLIII 7 The Challenger Tribute: Mary Axford GHLIII 14 Attack of the Amazing Colossal Monsters Jim Ivers (illo by Charlie Williams) 15 Monsters of the Midway Steven H Silver (illo by ?) 27 Monsters of the Midway Mike Resnick (illo by Randy Cleary) 29 The State of the Magazines Gregory Benford 33 Poems Mike Estabrook (illos by Randy Cleary & Nancy Mayberry) 38 My Main Man Meade … GHLIII (illos by many) 43 “Well That Was Fun” Joseph Major (illos by Anon.) 50 “We Three Kongs of Skull Island Are” GHLIII 53 Ill-Winds Still Blow Taral Wayne 58 A Proof of Niven’s Law Joseph Major 64 One Man’s Poison Walt Wentz 73 The Chorus Lines The Chorus (illo by Thomas Edison) 75 Cover by RON SANDERS Challenger no. 39 is GHLIII Press Publication #1171, February-March 2015. Copyright 2015 by Guy H. Lillian III. All rights revert to the contributor upon first printing and on-line publication. Uncredited text by Guy Lillian. Yes, master. 2 “Beasts” Richard Wilbur Beasts in their major freedom Slumber in peace tonight. The gull on his ledge Dreams in the guts of himself the moon-plucked waves below, And the sunfish leans on a stone, slept By the lyric water; In which the spotless feet Of deer make dulcet splashes, and to which The ripped mouse, safe in the owl’s talon, cries Concordance.