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Fantastic Adventures [v13 #2, February 1951] (25¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Arnold Kohn) 8 · The Sword of Ra · Geoff St. Reynard · na 47 · The Outer Edges... · Carter T. Wainwright · ms 47 · Foto—Fooler... · Jon Barry · ms 47 · Schmidt’s Spirit · L. A. Burt · ms 48 · Tink Takes Over [Tink] · P. F. Costello (by William P. McGivern) · ss 57 · Time-Travel Advertising · H. R. Stanton · ms 57 · Amazing Talkwriter · Leslie Phelps · ms 58 · The Dark Balcony · Emil Petaja · ss 68 · Screwy Helium! · William Karney · ms 69 · Radiation Sensor · A. Morris · ms 69 · Brookhaven Miracle! · A. T. Kedzie · ms 70 · Repossessed · H. B. Hickey · ss 82 · Entropy in Reverse · Milton Matthew · ms 82 · In the Balance... · Charles Recour · ms 83 · Shimmering Bridge · Sandy Miller · ms 83 · Get Your Workshop! · W. R. Chase · ms 84 · Rebirth · E. K. Jarvis · ss 93 · Flying Saucer Report · John Weston · ms 94 · The Man Who Hated Tuesday · Alexander Blade · nv 117 · Nerve Center... · June Lurie · ms 118 · Cancer’s Cause...? · Pete Bogg · ms 118 · Neptunian Nemesis · Max Long · ms 119 · Beating the Bomb! · Cal Webb · ms 126 · Fables from the Future · Lee Owens · gp _126 · Learning and Feedback... · Lee Owens · vi _128 · The Deadly “Lark” · Lee Owens · vi _129 · Shanghaied Into Space! · Lee Owens · vi

Fantastic Adventures [v13 #3, March 1951] (25¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Robert Gibson Jones) 8 · Secret of the Flaming Ring · P. F. Costello · na 49 · Devil’s Dust · Charles Recour · ms 49 · Numbers Game · John Weston · ms 50 · Death Has Green Eyes · John W. Jakes · ss 54 · Vengeance · E. Bruce Yaches · vi 55 · Imitation of Life · Merritt Linn · ms 56 · Let’s Do It Again! · William Campbell Gault · ss 68 · Turbine Topics · Salem Lane · ms 68 · Scientific Glue-Pot! · Jon Barry · ms 69 · Bacterial Warning · June Lurie · ms 69 · Project Phoenix... · William Karney · ms 70 · Pink Wind · Frances M. Deegan · ss 80 · Human Engineering... · H. R. Stanton · ms 81 · Gaseous Mix Up · Milton Matthew · ms 81 · Astronomical Waste · Carter T. Wainwright · ms 82 · Social Obligation · Roy L. Clough, Jr. · ss 86 · The Electronic Hole · Leslie Phelps · ms 87 · Star-Shots · A. T. Kedzie · ms 87 · Ultimate Death · Pete Bogg · ms 88 · The Master Ego · Peter Worth · na 122 · Keep Cool, Brother! · W. R. Chase · ms 122 · Miracle in Concrete · J. R. Marks · ms

Fantastic Adventures [v13 #4, April 1951] (25¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Harold W. McCauley) 8 · Nine Worlds West · Clee Garson (by Paul W. Fairman) · na 51 · Atomic Force Fields · John Weston · ms 51 · Beauty and the Machine · William Karney · ms 52 · The Children · Chester S. Geier · nv 67 · Uranium and Power! · H. R. Stanton · ms 67 · Packet X-200... · June Lurie · ms 68 · A Matter of Principle · E. K. Jarvis · ss 80 · In What Dark Mind · Rog Phillips · nv 96 · Always Kiss an Amazon! · Charles Recour · vi 97 · Pituitary Mystery · A. Morris · ms 97 · The Stuff Can Kill You! · Lee Owen · ms 98 · Favors Can Be Fatal · H. B. Hickey · ss 111 · The Big Blowhard · Milton Matthew · ms 112 · Some Do It with a Look... · P. F. Costello · ss 121 · Helecopter Hopefuls · Dale Lord · ms 121 · Stellar Pincushion · Conrad Kyle · ms 126 · Arctic Nuthouse! · Salem Lane · ms 126 · Co-Axial “Sniffer” · A. T. Kedzie · ms 127 · Coast Watcher · Max Long · vi 129 · Talgo Train · Sandy Miller · ms 129 · Sky Probers · L. A. Burt · ms 130 · Vanishing White Man! · Jon Barry · ms

Fantastic Adventures [v13 #5, May 1951] ed. Howard Browne (Ziff-Davis, Inc., 25¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Robert Gibson Jones) Managing Editor L. E. Shaffer. Details supplied by Todd Mason. 3 · The Editor’s Notebook · L. E. Shaffer · ed 6 · Invasion from the Deep · Paul W. Fairman · na; illustrated by Virgil Finlay 47 · The Hungry Brain · Lee Owen · ms 47 · They Walk on Air! · John Weston · ms 48 · Make Room for Me! · Theodore Sturgeon · nv; illustrated by Gerald Hohns 66 · “...As Others See Us” · Raymond F. Jones · nv; illustrated by Virgil Finlay 88 · That Machine Shop Bite! · June Lurie · ms 89 · Hydrogen Is All! · Cal Webb · ms 89 · Meteoric Windsock · Roy Zuber · ms 89 · Fear Is a Flame · W. R. Chase · ms 90 · Fix Me Something to Eat · William P. McGivern · ss; illustrated by Henry Sharp 103 · The Laws of Chance · William Karney · ms 103 · Microscopic Microphone · Tom Lynch · ms 104 · The Eye of Tandyla [Pusadian] · L. Sprague de Camp · nv; illustrated by Virgil Finlay 122 · Reader’s Page · [The Readers] · lc _ · [letter] · Gerry Holzman · lt _ · [letter] · Mrs. John P. Gates · lt _ · [letter] · Roger N. Dard · lt _ · [letter] · Lee Hoffman · lt _ · [letter] · Anthony K. Van Riper · lt _ · [letter] · Arline Gingold · lt _ · [letter] · Dennis Strong · lt _ · [letter] · David Rike · lt _ · [letter] · Mrs. Earl E. Blevins · lt; details reactions to the FA QUARTERLY—a rebinding of three early 1950 issues—for Spring ’50, revealing that FA published Leiber’s YOU’RE ALL ALONE and “The Ship Sails at Midnight” as well as stories by Robert Bloch [two], William Tenn, Lester Del Rey, Peter Phillips, Walt Sheldon, August Derleth, and, unsurprisingly, William McGivern and Chester Geier in that quarter. _ · [letter] · Mary A. Morley · lt _ · [letter] · P. Ogden · lt _ · [letter] · Carlysle Gentry · lt _ · [letter] · Lee Louis Martello · lt _ · [letter] · Glen W. Daniels · lt _ · [letter] · Tom Covington · lt _ · [letter] · [The Editor] · lt 127 · No Wings at All · Clyde Moore · ms 128 · Intestinal Fortitude · L. A. Burt · ms 129 · Relativity and Quanta · Leo Patterson · ms 129 · Astronautic Advances · A. T. Kedzie · ms

Fantastic Adventures [v13 #6, June 1951] (25¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Walter H. Hinton) 2 · Men Behind Fantastic Adventures: Ivar Jorgensen · Ivar Jorgensen · bg 7 · The Good Old Days · E. Bruce Yaches · ms 7 · Salute to Luna! · John Weston · vi 8 · Whom the Gods Would Slay · Ivar Jorgensen (by Paul W. Fairman) · na 63 · Shadow-Land of Death · Jon Barry · ms 64 · “You Can’t See Me!” · William F. Temple · ss 77 · Nobody’s Fuel · June Lurie · ms 78 · Conditioned Reflex · William P. McGivern · ss 82 · The Brain That Lost Its Head · Alfred Coppel · ss 87 · The Lunatic Fringe · Salem Lane · ms 88 · Three Against the Roum [John Balfour] · Robert Moore Williams · na 121 · Polarized Bee-Line... · Charles Recour · ms 121 · “You Rascal, You” · A. T. Kedzie · ms 122 · Asiatic Armageddon? · Lee Owen · ms 122 · Video Science-Fiction? · Omar Booth · ms 128 · Fireproof Silver · Merritt Linn · ms

Fantastic Adventures [v13 #7, July 1951] (25¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Robert Gibson Jones) 2 · Men Behind Fantastic Adventures: Robert Bloch · Robert Bloch · bg 7 · Beyond the Veil · John Weston · ms 7 · The Moon? Maybe... · Charles Recour · ms 8 · The Dead Don’t Die! · Robert Bloch · na 54 · Too Good to Be Used! · Pearl Miller · ms 54 · The Magic Transformation · E. Bruce Yaches · ms 55 · How Deep Is the Ocean...? · Merritt Linn · ms 55 · The Cancerous Virus! · Carter T. Wainwright · ms 56 · There’s No Way Out! · William P. McGivern · ss 64 · Just Bleed Old Mother Earth · Salem Lane · ms 65 · The Zeroth Law! · Jon Barry · ms 65 · “You’re Crazy, Doc!” · Sandy Miller · ms 66 · The President Will See You... · Rog Phillips · ss 71 · Older Even than Methuselah · U. Arteaux · ms 71 · Law of the Universe · Peter Dakin · ms 72 · “You’ll Never Go Home Again!” · Clifford Simak · ss 87 · The Universe of Hoyle · John Fletcher · ms 88 · Witness for the Defense · Paul W. Fairman · ss 93 · Celestial Rock-Crusher · Jonathon Peterson · ms 93 · “Science and Life” · William Karney · ms 94 · Mission Deferred · Walt Sheldon · ss 99 · The Shrinking Planet · Dale Lord · ms 99 · Preview of Creation! · Lee Owens · ms 100 · The Traveling Crag · Theodore Sturgeon · nv 126 · Panacea—or Phoney? · June Lurie · ms 126 · Want to Race? · Frederic Booth · ms 127 · Spoor from Space! · A. T. Kedzie · ms 128 · The Dying Skyscraper... · Jack Winter · ms

Fantastic Adventures [v13 #8, August 1951] ed. Howard Browne (Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 25¢, 132pp, pulp) fc. · Excalibur and the Atom · Robert Gibson Jones · cv 2 · Men Behind Fantastic Adventures: Theodore Sturgeon · Theodore Sturgeon · bg 6 · The Editor’s Notebook · Lila E. Shaffer · ed 7 · Built for Action! · John Weston · ms 7 · Ice-Box of the World · Peter Dakin · ms 8 · Excalibur and the Atom · Theodore Sturgeon · na; illustrated by H. Dorset 51 · Mind Over Machine · E. Bruce Yaches · ms 52 · With This Ring... · Dallas Ross · ss; illustrated by Virgil Finlay 58 · World Without Weight · Dale Lord · ms 59 · Flap Your Wings, Brother · Merritt Linn · ms 59 · It Actually Happened... · Carter T. Wainwright · ms 60 · The Spoilers of Lern · Clee Garson · nv; illustrated by Virgil Finlay 79 · How High Is Up? · Salem Lane · ms 79 · Guilty, Your Honor · Jon Barry · ms 79 · ...And the Glory · June Lurie · vi 80 · Everybody Loves Irving Bommer · William Tenn · ss; illustrated by Henry Sharp 93 · Of Poems and Bread and Lamps · Wilton Avery MacDonald · ms 94 · The Man with the Clutching Hand · Paul W. Fairman · ss; illustrated by Dan Barry 100 · A Ton of Star · Sandy Miller · ms 101 · Under the Disappearing Moon · Frederic Booth · ms 101 · Stranger... · Charles Recour · vi 102 · Very Cold for Conquest · P. F. Costello · ss; illustrated by Lawrence 115 · Readers’ Page · [The Readers] · lc _115 · [letter from North Bergen, NJ] · Calvin Thos. Beck · lt _115 · [letter from Sioux Falls, SD] · C. L. Disbrow · lt _116 · [letter from Taylorsville, KY] · A. J. Offutt, Jr. · lt _116 · [letter from West Townsend, MA] · Emory H. Mann · lt _118 · [letter from London NW4, England] · Leonard Gleicher · lt _118 · [letter from langeloth, PA] · George E. Dold · lt _119 · [letter from Brooklyn, NY] · Bob Silverberg · lt _119 · [letter from Baton Rouge, LA] · Leon I. Maxson, Jr. · lt _120 · [letter from Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada] · Lillian Ray · lt _120 · [letter from Indianapolis, IN] · Mr. James L. Cribelar · lt _120 · [letter from Minneapolis, MN] · James Lynch · lt _121 · [letter from Lomita, CA] · Jan Romanoff · lt _121 · [letter from Newark, OH] · Richard W. Ryan · lt 122 · A War of Nerves · Jonathon Peterson · ms 123 · Giants of the Earth · Lee Owens · ms 123 · Aluminum Necromancer! · Pearl Miller · ms 124 · Symbolic Logic · A. T. Kedzie · ms 124 · Robot with Jets · Jack Winter · ms 125 · Bridging the Gap · William Karney · ms 126 · Mathematica · Russell Roman · ms

Fantastic Adventures [v13 #9, September 1951] (25¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Robert Gibson Jones) 2 · Men Behind Fantastic Adventures: Walter M. Miller, Jr. · Walter M. Miller, Jr. · bg 8 · The Terrible Puppets · Paul W. Fairman · na 51 · “Der Gyrobus” · Ruth Hirsch · ms 51 · The Whites of Their Eyes... · Carter T. Wainwright · ms 52 · Mission Accomplished · Robert Moore Williams · ss 58 · Our Rightful Heritage · Jonathon Peterson · ms 59 · ...And They Buried Their Dead · Russell Newton Roman · ms 59 · Today’s Dreams—Tomorrow’s Realities · Lee Owens · ms 60 · The Catspaw · John McGreevey · ss 70 · The Secret of John Marsh · William P. McGivern · ss 76 · The Origin of Words · Merritt Linn · ms 76 · Let’s Have Some Music... · E. Bruce Yaches · ms 77 · Where Are We Going? · William Karney · ms 77 · A Paper for Your Thoughts... · Sandy Miller · ms 78 · Dark Benediction · Walter M. Miller, Jr. · na 116 · A Means Ox · Peter Dakin · ms 124 · The Miracle of Writing · Wilton Avery MacDonald · ms 124 · The Airplane Has a Future · Salem Lane · ms 125 · This Modern Age... · A. T. Kedzie · ms 126 · Is Civilization Doomed? · Jack Winter · ms 126 · She’s No Slouch! · Frederic Booth · ms

Fantastic Adventures [v13 #10, October 1951] (25¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Joe Tillotson) 7 · Marks That Make Sense · Peter Dakin · ms 8 · Medusa Was a Lady! · William Tenn · na 55 · The Lazy Way · L. A. Burt · ms 56 · A Handful of Dust · Ivar Jorgensen · ss 63 · The Common Weapon of Mankind · Russell Newton Roman · ms 64 · The Laughter of Shiru · Gerald Vance · nv 87 · Man—The Symbiote! · John Weston · ms 88 · You Take the High Road · Stephen Marlowe · ss 98 · Alias Adam · John McGreevey · nv 120 · Hot Off the Press · Salem Lane · ms 121 · Development + Progress = Destruction · Jonathon Peterson · ms 121 · Make Way for the New · Frederic Booth · ms; given as by Frederick Booth 127 · The Man Who Uncovered a World · Merritt Linn · ms 129 · More Precious Than Jewels · William Karney · ms 130 · Cartoon Evolution · Dale Lord · ms

Fantastic Adventures [v13 #11, November 1951] (25¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Ed Valigursky) 7 · Sing the Man a Song... · Frederic Booth · ms 8 · The Man Who Stopped at Nothing · Paul W. Fairman · na 48 · Hail the Absent King · Peter Dakin · ms 49 · Loving Cup—450 B.C. · Russell Newton Roman · ms 49 · It Can Happen Here! · John Weston · ms 50 · Anything Your Heart Desires · Stephen Marlowe · ss 59 · Clothes Still Make the Woman · E. Bruce Yaches · ms 59 · “Lady of the Double-Ax” · Wilton Avery MacDonald · ms 60 · The Girl in the Golden Wig · Chester S. Geier · nv 80 · He Knew All the Answers · Dallas Ross · ss 85 · How to Beat the Horses · Sandy Miller · ms 85 · You “Talk” Too Much · Carter T. Wainwright · ms 86 · Mission Accomplished · Wallace Umphrey · ss 92 · From Out of the Past... · Merritt Linn · ms 93 · Home Sweet Home... · Salem Lane · ms 94 · Remember Not to Die! · Rog Phillips · nv 120 · Look Who’s Here! · William Karney · ms 120 · Crete to Paris in 3400 Years · Jonathon Peterson · ms 127 · Mathematics a la Mode · Lee Owens · ms 128 · The Brain Bombers! · Jack Winter · ms 128 · Waves That Bounce on the Moon · Dale Lord · ms 129 · In Perfect Health · A. T. Kedzie · ms 130 · Cyberneticist’s Paradise · L. A. Burt · ms

Fantastic Adventures [v13 #12, December 1951] (25¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Robert Gibson Jones) 6 · Jongor Fights Back! [Jongor] · Robert Moore Williams · na 44 · In the Silence of the Night · E. Bruce Yaches · ms 45 · The Innocent Weapon · Salem Lane · ms 45 · All Atoms Vanish! · A. T. Kedzie · ms 45 · Afterglow · Jon Barry · ms 46 · No Price Too Great · Graham Doar · ss 55 · Geodetic Taffy-Pull! · Russell Newton Roman · ms 55 · The Bantus with the Brains · Rita Glanzman · ms 56 · He Knew What He Wanted · E. K. Jarvis · ss 70 · The Immortal Fly · L. A. Burt · ms 70 · Cosmic Joker... · Carter T. Wainwright · ms 71 · Fringes of the Cosmos · Jonathon Peterson · ms 71 · Martians by the Inch · Sandy Miller · ms 72 · Deadly Cargo · Paul W. Fairman · ss 83 · Those Ghostly Blobs... · Merritt Linn · ms 84 · The Joker · William Morrison · ss 97 · No Man’s Land · William Karney · ms 97 · The Eye of the Spy · Wilton Avery MacDonald · ms 98 · Never Shoot a Stranger · Charles Creighton · nv