tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post4546778099279163146..comments2024-03-28T19:52:07.635-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: FFM: some 1963 and 1973 fantasy magazines: GAMMA, July 1963, edited by Charles Fritch; MAGAZINE OF HORROR, August 1963, edited by Robert A. W. Lowndes; FANTASTIC, September 1973, edited by Ted White; THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, August 1973, edited by Edward Ferman; THE HAUNT OF HORROR, August 1973, edited by Gerard F. ConwayTodd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-3276460997215544782018-12-07T14:10:11.032-05:002018-12-07T14:10:11.032-05:00I would agree...I was able to find a very few back...I would agree...I was able to find a very few back issues via mail order at prices I could afford of SCIENCE FANTASY when I began collecting, mostly new magazines, in 1978, but they were fun to go through. And the inaccessibility of the pulp reprints in MAGAZINE OF HORROR and its eventual stablemates was pretty near total, unless the readers had access to pulp back issues, already a rather specialized trade by the early '60s. Though most of what I loved about what I'd read from the Lowndes magazines, reprinted elsewhere or in the back issues as I found them, was the original fiction he published. Yes, Marvel gave Very little support to HAUNT OF HORROR the fiction magazine, vs. the comics magazine that got a slightly longer run later on. <br /><br />I dunno...I was pretty critical even when young. One of the first F&SF back issues I picked up was the GLORY ROAD issue, and that Heinlein novel starts well, but sure bogs down quickly...the rest of the issue was better...but F&SF and FANTASTIC and WHISPERS were definitely my favorite new magazines in 1978, even as I really liked nearly all the fiction magazines I could find to one degree or another, and such magazines with one or two short stories per issue such as THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-15555198862774022672018-12-07T12:43:37.789-05:002018-12-07T12:43:37.789-05:00I have very pleasant memories of all but one of th...I have very pleasant memories of all but one of these, Todd. GAMMA was so spunky trying to keep up with the big guys despite spotty distribution (as an LA-based magazine it was very difficult to find in New England). MOH is a shiny example of what Doc Lowndes could do with a budget of 37 cents. In those pre-internet days a number of the reprinted chestnuts may not have been readily available to some of his readers. FANTASTIC was my go-to magazine back then. Ted White worked very hard to give the mag a personality. F&SF has always been top-shelf. THE HAUNT OF HORROR, another spunky magazine, coulda been a contender if not for a lack of corporate support. SCIENCE FANTASY was just not available to me back then, but as I catch up with old issues I am very impressed.<br /><br />Ah, to be young again, starry-eyed, and not too critical...Jerry Househttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482856733981933159noreply@blogger.com