Fantastic Stories of Imagination

August 1962, Volume 11 Number 8

Works by: Roger Zelazny, Larry Harris, P. Schuyler Miller, Jack Sharkey, Lawrence Eisenberg, Rosel George Brown, Arthur Porges, Albert Teichner, Robert F. Young.


©1962 Ziff-Davis Publishing

First Edition

Softcover, pulp magazine digest

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Condition: This vintage pulp is in solid GOOD+ condition. The binding is sound and firm. The front cover shows light edge rubbing, and fold shadows, but NO creasing, tearing or chipping. The cover art is still full of colorful and gorgeous. Internally, no markings no cutouts, and only FAINT toning to the page edges, not entire page. A nice copy of an important issue, preserved in an acid-free archival bag.

About: This issue carries the first sci-fi story by Roger Zelazny to be published.

Works by:
Fantastic saw a tenure of approximately 28 years, and was published as by Ziff-Davis as a Fantasy companion to Amazing Stories.  Later, it moved from Fantasy to Science-Fiction, and helped launch the careers of such greats as Roger Zelazny, and Ursula K LeGuin.

Editor Cele Goldsmith. Great color cover art by Vernon Kramer and internal black & white drawings by Summers. This vintage pulp magazine carries the DEBUT short-story Horseman! by Roger Zelazny, which actually saw TWO debut stories, same month different pulps. Zelazny of course went on to a lifelong career in writing, and was influential to such other greats as Samuel R Delany, Algis Budrys, Neil Gaiman and others.

 

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