• Publication: Psychotic, May-June-July 1955Publication Record # 855203 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editor: Richard E. Geis
• Date: 1955-05-00
• Publisher: Richard E. Geis
• Price:
  $0.15^?$: US dollar
• Pages: [48]
• Format:
  quarto^?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
• Type: FANZINE
• Cover: Psychotic, May-June-July 1955 by Naaman Peterson
• Notes: Information from Science Fiction Review. #20. Number of pages estimated assuming two blank pages were not shown in the SFR scan. The existence of these pages is based on staple marks at the edges of the pages. Pages 18, 20 and 22 must be even-numbered pages because of staple marks along the right side of each page with no left-side staple holes on pages in between. Blank inside of front cover (p. 2) is shown. Lithographed pages, with 4-page photo-offset insert on slightly smaller paper (not numbered, shown as bp in contents), pages included in page count. "The Observation Ward" is a discussion of specific fanzines. The title of the review on p.22 is "Psycho"; the title of the review of the same book on p.23 is "Analyst". The latter was likely reviewed by Geis. "20,000 Leagues Under the Scalp" is a review of the Disney movie "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". "Section Eight" is letters.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Psychotic, May-June-July 1955 • interior artwork by ATom and Larry Bourne and Jim Bradley and Dean A. Grennell and Plato Jones and Robert Kellogg and Ralph Rayburn Phillips and Ted Rasmussen and Dave Rike and William Rotsler [as by Larry Bourne and Jim Bradley and Dean A. Grennell and Plato Jones and Bob Kellogg and Ralph Rayburn Phillips and Ted Rasmussen and Dave Rike and William Rotsler and Arthur Thompson]
• bp • Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• bp •  Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend • interior artwork by Robert Kellogg [as by Bob Kellogg]
• [3] • Der Final Blackout • essay by Richard E. Geis
• [4] • The Leather Couch (Psychotic, May-June-July 1955) • essay by Richard E. Geis
• [6] • S-F Con Report, Part 3 of 3 (Psychotic, May-June-July 1955) • essay by Peter Graham
• [15] • The Observation Ward (Psychotic, May-June-July 1955) • essay by Richard E. Geis
• [20] • Take It Away • poem by Wallace West
• [22] •   Review: Hell's Pavement by Damon Knight • review by Noah W. McLeod
• [23] •   Review: Hell's Pavement by Damon Knight • review by uncredited
• [24] • 20,000 Leagues Under the Scalp • short fiction by Larry Stark
• [27] •  Cartoon "7th Fandom Is Not Dead" • interior artwork by ATom
• [28] • Why I Don't Go to Frisco • essay by Gregg Calkins
• [31] • Section Eight (Psychotic, May-June-July 1955) • essay by Richard E. Geis
• [31] •  Letter to Psychotic, May-June-July 1955 • essay by Joe Gibson
• [33] •  Letter to Psychotic, May-June-July 1955 • essay by Robert A. W. Lowndes (variant of Letter to Psychotic, May-June-July, 1955) [as by Robert W. Lowndes]
• [34] •  Letter to Psychotic, May-June-July 1955 • [Letters: Robert Bloch] • essay by Robert Bloch
• [39] •  Letter to Psychotic, May-June-July 1955 • essay by Robert Coulson
• [39] •  Letter to Psychotic, May-June-July 1955 • essay by Francis T. Laney
• [42] • The People Who Make Other Worlds: No. 69: The Majadero • essay by Wilson Tucker [as by Bob Tucker]
• [43] • Second Session (Psychotic, May-June-July 1955) • essay by Richard E. Geis