tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post483903749231325067..comments2024-03-27T22:39:08.396-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: Friday's "Forgotten" MagazinesTodd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-46859860427592994142010-03-27T01:29:14.866-04:002010-03-27T01:29:14.866-04:00George--the upside of Gaughan's term as essent...George--the upside of Gaughan's term as essentially The artist at the GALAXY group was that he was able to spread himself over the best-produced issues the magazines would see...with more creative freedom than he was usually afforded at, say, Ace. The downside was that they were working him to death, he noted later, and with many last-minute assignments.<br /><br />Rick--Well, CEMETERY WORLD really isn't very memorable...but "Pigeon City" is worth revisiting if you ever pick that issue up again...Miller had a website up, and might still, but I'm not aware of his ever quite making a similar splash again after this story.<br /><br />Evan--Well, the Howard enthusiasts do see to have a legitimate beef with de Camp, who of course had written some "posthumous collaborations" with Howard (and with Lin Cater and Glenn Nyquist, iirc...I'm too sleepy to feel like looking the latter up to see if he was really Bjorn or Sven, as I suspect...), at least as far as his assessment of Howard's mental state goes. But, aside from the interesting (if possibly erroneous) first essay on Howard and a typically largely wrong where not dealing with the crashingly obvious Panshin essay, the FANTASTIC issue is a wealth of interesting reading, as I certainly thought at the time I first read it (Steve Durost like the pulp reprint by Pragnell the best...I thought it the weakest bit, but it does have...koff...some needle illustration for those that seek same). I thought the Lupoff/"Hamlet" hilarious, even with limited prior experience of the kind of generic sword and sorcery/sf crossover story it mocked.<br /><br />The evocation of the Three Stooges in the Farmer might be a little Too faithful. Chesley Bonestell did the F&SF cover, btw, and Dan Adkins the FANTASTIC.<br /><br />And everyone should check out the NooSFere cover-gallery/index gloss, if you haven't...though the FictionMags Index data as reformatted on Phil Stephensen-Payne's Galactic Central is also providing a gratifying number of cover images these days.Todd Masonhttp://www.socialistjazz.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-58544779970248407262010-03-26T12:44:45.574-04:002010-03-26T12:44:45.574-04:00Pretty sure I have that F&SF (for the Farmer s...Pretty sure I have that F&SF (for the Farmer story) and the Fantastic (from when I was a Conaniac).Evan Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07620731784654779358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-26856478901879607142010-03-26T09:40:49.546-04:002010-03-26T09:40:49.546-04:00Great post, Todd. I had that issue of Analog, but ...Great post, Todd. I had that issue of Analog, but I don't remember a thing about the contents, only the cover.Richard R.http://brokenbullhorn.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-52733588680241397992010-03-25T21:38:33.193-04:002010-03-25T21:38:33.193-04:00Jack Gaughan was second only to EMSH in my pantheo...Jack Gaughan was second only to EMSH in my pantheon of great SF artists, Todd. I can't understand why someone hasn't issued an art book of his wonderful covers!Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-34546373341112461992010-03-21T23:38:53.760-04:002010-03-21T23:38:53.760-04:00Yes, they could, Kate...but the covers ranged wide...Yes, they could, Kate...but the covers ranged widely between the utterly inept such as that to relatively good caricatures (such as the one which graced the next issue, as I note)...this was the same period in which the interiors of both EQMM and THE SAINT were so sloppily printed that they were hard to read...at least AHMM looked good on the inside (except perhaps for the illustrations, which were also pretty uninspired for the most part, but usually functional). The January 1978 cover, the first new issue I saw on a newsstand, had a an actually well-executed photo cover, but that was still rare a decade after this issue.<br /><br />And, as I've noted in many places now, there were at least three major sorts of HITCHCOCK anthologies...the Random House (mostly) ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: anthologies, edited by Robert Arthur till his death on the cusp of the '70s and then by Harold Q. Masur till Hitchcock's death (they were great); the YA ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S _____ (such as MONSTER MUSEUM and SINSITER SPIES) anthologies edited also by Arthur, then by successors, mostly for Viking Press, iirc, which were excellent and interestingly illustrated except in the downgraded and pointlessly abridged paperback editions, and the adult-oriented ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S ___________ (such as NOOSE REPORT and DATES WITH DEATH) anthologies published by Dell, which were best-ofs from AHMM. Davis Publications, after buying AHMM in the mid-'70s, started doing fat ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S ANTHOLOGY issues in the manner of their ELLERY QUEEN'S ANTHOLOGY issues, which were published in hardcover initially by the Dial Press, which made them look the Random House PRESENTS: series, which latter was also confusingly reprinted in two paperbacks each by Dell. And the AHMM best-ofs weren't too shabby, either.<br /><br />The recent AHMM covers are actually pretty sharp, but most of the Penny/Crosstown/Dell fiction magazines are covered pretty well these days.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-3582937104251573572010-03-21T18:45:29.650-04:002010-03-21T18:45:29.650-04:00Wow -- they couldn't get a better cover for Hi...Wow -- they couldn't get a better cover for Hitch than that? I never saw the mags, but read the collections avidly. My intro to a lot of writers as a child.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-91715398945374997452010-03-19T23:19:49.078-04:002010-03-19T23:19:49.078-04:00I'll have to dig around...Colby is Yet Another...I'll have to dig around...Colby is Yet Another deserving more books in print than he has had (wonder if that story made it into one of the AHMM anthologies from Dell...)Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-46150463264080343202010-03-19T22:27:17.353-04:002010-03-19T22:27:17.353-04:00I am also lucky enough to have this AHMM issue.I am also lucky enough to have this AHMM issue.August Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11797743144228505958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-219849156873261462010-03-19T19:46:57.623-04:002010-03-19T19:46:57.623-04:00Did you read it in this issue, or in an anthology ...Did you read it in this issue, or in an anthology or Colby collection (did he publish one other than the PAINT THE TOWN book?)?Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-77474785693685116152010-03-19T18:52:31.799-04:002010-03-19T18:52:31.799-04:00I remember reading "A Nice Wholesome Girl&quo...I remember reading "A Nice Wholesome Girl" by Robert Colby. It's a fabulous story.August Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11797743144228505958noreply@blogger.com