tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post4209744408825062973..comments2024-03-28T19:52:07.635-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: Fantasy magazines in English, August 1957 cover-dates...Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-16490153398775904982016-05-12T13:12:24.084-04:002016-05-12T13:12:24.084-04:00The woman in the F&SF cover painting could alm...The woman in the F&SF cover painting could almost be the woman in the foreground in the FANTASTIC...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-74916994135948865312016-05-12T12:29:11.447-04:002016-05-12T12:29:11.447-04:00Completely agree about the Science Fantasy cover T...Completely agree about the Science Fantasy cover Todd!Sergio (Tipping My Fedora)https://bloodymurder.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-34538128392006269032016-05-12T10:21:18.698-04:002016-05-12T10:21:18.698-04:00Well, Sergio, do look at the not-bad, if nothing e...Well, Sergio, do look at the not-bad, if nothing extraordinary, first FRIGHTENED issue's cover...where they make the Other rookie mistake of putting No writer's names on. I'd say the others aren't so pulpy as in one way or another failed attempts to refine pulpiness...the FANTASTIC cover, one of several on Fairman issues implying this is just before some sort of monster's assault on a woman or women, is particularly meretricious, but coaxing a bad, rather than the occasional merely functional, cover out of Finlay, or even the slightly oddly GGA cover of the F&SF, just sort of suggest a sad lot, artistically if not also in actual collective mood. The SCIENCE FANTASY cover is a handsome image, at least. <br /><br />Walker, I do need to get my finances in order so I can trust myself around a magazine show, or a decently-stocked secondhand store, as Jeff Segal and Jeff Cantwell have been pointing me toward in the local area. At least one of the FANTASTIC issues, devoted somewhat to wish-fulfillment fantasies, that inspired the launch of DREAM WORLD was also the site of Kate Wilhelm's first published story, plucked from the slush by Cele Goldsmith in perhaps her first major discovery.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-24785977770960575432016-05-12T08:03:36.351-04:002016-05-12T08:03:36.351-04:00These fiction digests in the 1950's are still ...These fiction digests in the 1950's are still available for inexpensive prices. At the Windy City Pulp convention in April, I saw many priced at $1.00 or $2.00 each. In the auction 73 GALAXY'S in nice shape went for only $50.00. I have all these except for the DREAM WORLD title. I never bothered collecting it.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-54755344980809285622016-05-12T04:18:18.435-04:002016-05-12T04:18:18.435-04:00Must admit, that functional, Mondrian style TALES ...Must admit, that functional, Mondrian style TALES OF THE FRIGHTENED cover would put me right off, no matter how vulgar and how pulpy the other are by comparison - but there you you, letting my cro-magnum low brow hang all the way out!Sergio (Tipping My Fedora)https://bloodymurder.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com