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Fantasy-News, v. 6, issue 6, whole no. 137, February 9, 1941
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FANTASY NEWS Page Three ART BONERS by Ralph Garnes. Even a superficial examination of the art work in current newstand stf mags will reveal plenty of boners where the artists either did not read the story, or committed some scientific or artistic blunder. For example in the current FANTASTIC NOVELS, the head picture for Ralph Milne Farley's Radio story shows Yuri and Zilla with four instead of five fingers. Cabot's four fingers (and one thumb) are okey...Also in AMAZING for Feb on P. 57, both figures should be wearing smocks, and Barton's hair should hang over his forehead. Similarly on P. 72, it is Odin, rather than Loki, who is one-eyed. READERS of FANTASY NEWS! Send in your ART BONERS. We sill extend your subscription one issue for every three boners accepted and printed in this column! STIRRING SCIENCE FACTS Cont's: Smith's omnibus to be so honored. "The Maze Of the Enchanter", "The Double Shadow", "A Night In Malneant", and "The Willow Landscape" have all appeared in WEIRD TALES. Only "The Voyage of King Euvoran" remains unpublished...Cecil Corwin, author of "Thirteen O'clock", is believed to be S.D. Gottesman (Cyril Kornbluth) or Richard Wilson, or a collaboration of the two. In COSMIC STORIES "Worlds In Exile", the poem credited to Elton V. Andrews is really the work of Frederik Pohl, editor of ASTONISHING STORES...."The Rocket", poem by Damon Knight, is reprinted from Snide, a current fan magazine... Mildred Verne Gordon, author of "Purple Dandelions" in the current number, is merely another pseudonym of the editor, Donald A. Wollheim. Other unknown names could, in this writer's estimation, be credited to the editor or his associates in the Futurian Society...The Gordon pseudonym is used in a rather quaint way by Editor Wollheim and his agent Doc Lowndes. Lowndes sells Wollheim's work under the MVG nom-de-plume, and after the yarn has been accepted, he notifies the purchaser of the true identity of the writer with the request that that(next col.) [column break] SCIENCE FICTION FANS GET ACCEPTANCES Congratulations to Chester S. Geier, who has sold "City, City" to Orlin Tremaine for publication in COMET, and also a short yarn to Campbelll for UNKNOWN...A slap on the back, too, for D.B. Thompson, most consistent letter wirter of our times, who has sold "Ecce ntric Orbit", a 6000 worder, to ASTOUNDING...Sam Moskowitz has clicked again with a 3600 word short-short at PLANET STORIES...Bob Tucker, the country's No. 2 fan, has made a sale to Fictioneers, Inc., while John Hollis Mason and Leslie A. Croutch are also reported to have made first sales. Graph Waldeyer's yarn in COMET will be his second, his first in one of Pohl's mags coming very close to publication under someone else's name. Moskowitz is busy working night and day on more yarns for COMET and others. --------------------- STIRRING SCIENCE FACTS Cont'd: yarn be published under Wollheim's real name. All this just before his deadline. Paul Dennis Lavond, author of a poem and story in UNKNOWN is actually Fred Pohl, Editor of ASTONISHING and SUPER SCIENCE.Could this be another instance in kind..? ODD ITEMS by FANTASY NEWS REPORTERS "The Primal City, by Clark Ashton Smith, that appeared in the first issue of COMET was published first in Charlie Hornig's "The Fantasy Fan. Changes were made in the yarn adapting it for pro publication. "Doman of Zero", by Thornton Ayre, which was published in the fourth issue of PLANET, was to have appeared in the ill-fated British pro venture, NEW WORLDS. (sm) The publication of the Binder tale, "Adam Link In the Past", in AMAZING brings to four the number of yarns based on the Ragnarok legend, that have appeared in the last year.- in UNKNOWN, BLUE BOOK, STARTLING, and AMAZING respectively. Was there a fifth in WEIRD? Of these, the deCamp-Pratt yarn was the first published if not the first written. Maybe all the other boys had the idea independently. Maybe. (sc)
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FANTASY NEWS Page Three ART BONERS by Ralph Garnes. Even a superficial examination of the art work in current newstand stf mags will reveal plenty of boners where the artists either did not read the story, or committed some scientific or artistic blunder. For example in the current FANTASTIC NOVELS, the head picture for Ralph Milne Farley's Radio story shows Yuri and Zilla with four instead of five fingers. Cabot's four fingers (and one thumb) are okey...Also in AMAZING for Feb on P. 57, both figures should be wearing smocks, and Barton's hair should hang over his forehead. Similarly on P. 72, it is Odin, rather than Loki, who is one-eyed. READERS of FANTASY NEWS! Send in your ART BONERS. We sill extend your subscription one issue for every three boners accepted and printed in this column! STIRRING SCIENCE FACTS Cont's: Smith's omnibus to be so honored. "The Maze Of the Enchanter", "The Double Shadow", "A Night In Malneant", and "The Willow Landscape" have all appeared in WEIRD TALES. Only "The Voyage of King Euvoran" remains unpublished...Cecil Corwin, author of "Thirteen O'clock", is believed to be S.D. Gottesman (Cyril Kornbluth) or Richard Wilson, or a collaboration of the two. In COSMIC STORIES "Worlds In Exile", the poem credited to Elton V. Andrews is really the work of Frederik Pohl, editor of ASTONISHING STORES...."The Rocket", poem by Damon Knight, is reprinted from Snide, a current fan magazine... Mildred Verne Gordon, author of "Purple Dandelions" in the current number, is merely another pseudonym of the editor, Donald A. Wollheim. Other unknown names could, in this writer's estimation, be credited to the editor or his associates in the Futurian Society...The Gordon pseudonym is used in a rather quaint way by Editor Wollheim and his agent Doc Lowndes. Lowndes sells Wollheim's work under the MVG nom-de-plume, and after the yarn has been accepted, he notifies the purchaser of the true identity of the writer with the request that that(next col.) [column break] SCIENCE FICTION FANS GET ACCEPTANCES Congratulations to Chester S. Geier, who has sold "City, City" to Orlin Tremaine for publication in COMET, and also a short yarn to Campbelll for UNKNOWN...A slap on the back, too, for D.B. Thompson, most consistent letter wirter of our times, who has sold "Ecce ntric Orbit", a 6000 worder, to ASTOUNDING...Sam Moskowitz has clicked again with a 3600 word short-short at PLANET STORIES...Bob Tucker, the country's No. 2 fan, has made a sale to Fictioneers, Inc., while John Hollis Mason and Leslie A. Croutch are also reported to have made first sales. Graph Waldeyer's yarn in COMET will be his second, his first in one of Pohl's mags coming very close to publication under someone else's name. Moskowitz is busy working night and day on more yarns for COMET and others. --------------------- STIRRING SCIENCE FACTS Cont'd: yarn be published under Wollheim's real name. All this just before his deadline. Paul Dennis Lavond, author of a poem and story in UNKNOWN is actually Fred Pohl, Editor of ASTONISHING and SUPER SCIENCE.Could this be another instance in kind..? ODD ITEMS by FANTASY NEWS REPORTERS "The Primal City, by Clark Ashton Smith, that appeared in the first issue of COMET was published first in Charlie Hornig's "The Fantasy Fan. Changes were made in the yarn adapting it for pro publication. "Doman of Zero", by Thornton Ayre, which was published in the fourth issue of PLANET, was to have appeared in the ill-fated British pro venture, NEW WORLDS. (sm) The publication of the Binder tale, "Adam Link In the Past", in AMAZING brings to four the number of yarns based on the Ragnarok legend, that have appeared in the last year.- in UNKNOWN, BLUE BOOK, STARTLING, and AMAZING respectively. Was there a fifth in WEIRD? Of these, the deCamp-Pratt yarn was the first published if not the first written. Maybe all the other boys had the idea independently. Maybe. (sc)
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