Mike Ashley notes that even at its worst, FANTASTIC ADVENTURES was still fun...and it is notable how it was the last ready market for Edgar Rice Burroughs (his star really seems to have fallen, even if he presumably was still comfortable on continuing Tarzan money, by the end of his life). Of course, the issues I love are the weirdly mixed Howard Browne issues from just before FANTASTIC was launched, with a mix of the typical ZD hack and good to brilliant stories from both the best writers in fantastic fiction (Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, Margaret St. Clair et al.) and sometimes even a few of the folks who had talent but only were intermittently demonstrating such at ZD at that point, such as William P. McGivern).
Mike Ashley notes that even at its worst, FANTASTIC ADVENTURES was still fun...and it is notable how it was the last ready market for Edgar Rice Burroughs (his star really seems to have fallen, even if he presumably was still comfortable on continuing Tarzan money, by the end of his life). Of course, the issues I love are the weirdly mixed Howard Browne issues from just before FANTASTIC was launched, with a mix of the typical ZD hack and good to brilliant stories from both the best writers in fantastic fiction (Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, Margaret St. Clair et al.) and sometimes even a few of the folks who had talent but only were intermittently demonstrating such at ZD at that point, such as William P. McGivern).
ReplyDelete...and where else would you encounter an evil vacuum cleaner robot?
ReplyDeleteNeato keen space opera covers.
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