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    “a lively look at your past and promise”. A non-fiction magazine included because of the authors involved.

    P.S. [v1 #1, April 1966] ed. Edward L. Ferman (Mercury Press, 60¢, 64pp, 8" x 11")
    Details supplied by Ned Brooks.
    • 3 · Don Sturdy and the 30,000 Series Books · Avram Davidson · ar
    • 12 · Would You Want Your Product to Marry a Negro · Alfred Bester · ar
    • 16 · The Gentle Art of Brick Throwing · Ron Goulart · ar
    • 24 · Freaks · Gahan Wilson · ar
    • 32 · Child Things · Russell Baker · ar
    • 34 · The Lost Lovely Landscapes of Luna · Isaac Asimov · ar
    • 39 · Lugosi: The Compleat Bogeyman · Charles Beaumont · ar
    • 42 · When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed · Ray Bradbury · pm
    • 44 · Joe Louis in Atlantic City · Jerry Tallmer · ar
    • 49 · The Thirties Quiz · Robert Thomsen · qz
    • 50 · Sweet and Lowdown: The Lost Jazz Years · Nat Hentoff · ar
    • 58 · Captain Ahab Is Dead; Long Live Bob Dylan, Or, Are the Beatles Really the Andrews Sisters, In Drag? · Jean Shepherd · ar

    P.S. [v1 #2, June 1966] ed. Edward L. Ferman (Mercury Press, 60¢, 64pp, 8" x 11")
    Details supplied by Mike Ward.
    • 5 · The Student Rebel: Then and Now · William Tenn · ar; 1930’s vs 1960’s.
    • 8 · It Only Hurts When They Laugh · Gahan Wilson & Evan Phillips · ar; college pranksters.
    • 12 · The Fabulous Freebie Fire Fighters · John Major Hurdy · ar; volunteer firefighter anecdotes.
    • 20 · The Audience Is Dead · William Redfield · ar; wretched current state of drama and its audiences.
    • 26 · The Guys in the Trick Suits · William F. Nolan · ar; superheroes.
    • 34 · Tear Off a Box Top · Ron Goulart · ar; cereal premiums.
    • 39 · Department of Yellowed Journalism · S. Harris · ar; old engravings with new “funny” captions.
    • 42 · The Lion · Nicholas Breckenridge · ar; memoir of his dad, the commercial artist.
    • 48 · The Papers—They Publish Her Face · Gerald Carson · ar; history of the society pages in newspapers, from The Polite Americans, Morrow 1966.
    • 66 · The Forties Quiz · Robert Thomsen · qz; from Questions, Anyone?, Doubleday 1965.

    Pacific [v2 #3, April 1947] ed. Mary Rolfe (Oakland, CA: Mills College, 50¢, 48+4pp, 5½" x 8½")
    I assume the “Robert Barlow” with a poem on page 17 is “the” Robert Barlow (friend of HPL) and I assume the poem is already known about and reprinted (it’s not fantastic), but since there are no authorial notes in that issue I can’t make the connection for sure. Details supplied by Denny Lien.

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