Publication: Fantastic [UK], v1 #2

Publication: Fantastic [UK], v1 #2Publication Record # 547299 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Howard Browne
Date: 1954-02-00
Publisher: Strato Publications
Price:
1/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: 132
Format:
digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
Type: MAGAZINE
Cover: Fantastic [UK], v1 #2 by Vernon Kramer (variant of Fantastic, November-December 1953 1953)
Notes: Volume 1 Number 2. Date from Galactic Central. Content is from the November-December 1953 US issue with the cartoons discarded. Artist credits from corresponding US issue (not always given). Note 35c price on cover.

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Editor Title: Fantastic [UK] - 1954 • [Fantastic [UK]] • (1954) • edited by Howard Browne

Contents (view Concise Listing)

2 • Let's Do It for Love • (1953) • short story by Robert Bloch
2 • Let's Do It for Love • (1953) • interior artwork by uncredited
20 • Never Mind a Martian • [Reggie] • (1953) • novelette by William P. McGivern
21 • Never Mind a Martian • (1953) • interior artwork by Maurice del Bourgo
43 • What a Man Believes • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
44 • What a Man Believes • (1953) • interior artwork by Henry C. Pitz
51 • From This Dark Mind • (1953) • novelette by Rog Phillips
53 • From This Dark Mind • (1953) • interior artwork by David Stone
66 • A Portfolio • (1953) • interior artwork by Gyula Zilzer
70 • The Chase • (1953) • novelette by William P. McGivern [as by Bill Peters (1950s)]
70 • The Chase • (1953) • interior artwork by Ernie Barth [as by Barth]
91 • The Wrong People • (1953) • short story by Ralph Robin
93 • The Wrong People • (1953) • interior artwork by Ed Emshwiller [as by Emsh]
99 • The Siren Sounds at Midnight • (1953) • short story by Frank M. Robinson
101 • The Siren Sounds at Midnight • (1953) • interior artwork by Ashman [as by William Ashman]
106 • Methuselah, Ltd. • (1953) • short story by Richard Barr and Wallace West
107 • Methuselah, Ltd • (1953) • interior artwork by uncredited

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