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    Fantastic Novels Magazine (Canada) [v4 #1, May 1950] (25¢, pulp)
    Issue partially indexed - probably a direct reprint of the US issue of the same date.
    • · Three Against the Stars · Eric North · na Melbourne Herald 1924, as “The Satyr”

    Fantastic Novels (UK) [(#1, 1950)] (Thorpe and Porter Ltd., 1/-, 132pp, pulp, cover by Virgil Finlay)
    This issue is neither numbered nor dated, nor has any datable adverts, but is believed to be the first issue. The publisher is also unclear, some sources suggest it is Pemberton’s (of Manchester) Ltd. but the magazine carries a Thorpe & Porter advert on the back. Reprint of the November 1949 (US) issue.
    Details supplied by Alistair Durie.

    Fantastic Novels (UK) [No. 1 (December 1950)] (Pemberton’s (of Manchester) Ltd., 9d, 64pp+, pulp)
    Date based on Atlas advert. Partial reprint of the May 1949 (US) issue.
    Details supplied by Alistair Durie.
    • 2 · The Eye of Balamok · Victor Rousseau · na All-Story Weekly January 17 1920 (+2)
    • 39 · Devil Ritter · Max Brand · na All-Story Weekly July 13 1918

    Fantastic Science Fiction   (about)
    According to Walter Gibson all of the stories in this magazine were written either by himself or Ed Burkholder. Gibson could only identify one of his pseudonyms. One of the bylines is a known Burkholder pseudonym. J. Randolph Cox, who prepared a massive bibliography of Gibson’s work, examined the remainder of the stories and is of the opinion that the two Bruce Crandall stories are probably by Gibson, and that the others are probably not. The bylines have been annotated appropriately.

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