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Fantasy Fiction Field, v. 2, issue 17, whole no. 40, Denvention Issue
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Fantasy Fiction Field Illustrated News Weekly (Denvention Issue) Page 3 Here's Mary Gnaedinger (continued) has done some fine work on the inside drawings. Finlay has a knockout cover for it, and is the artist for the full page illustration to "The Colour out of Space". In the issue following that, comes "The Afterglow", last of the great England trilogy and probably the best of the three Beatrice and Stern adventures in the Vacant World. For the coming year the program is one of consistent quality. More Merritt - - more trilogies started and finished - - Garrett P. Serviss, Frances Stevens -- you know what these names mean. With the October issue, Famous Fantastic Mysteries is two years old. In that time the magazine has used olny a small percentage of the fine old champagne quality stuff available. Readers who have subscriptions can look forward to many landmarks in fantasy fiction which are still to be displayed. Much has been said about the advisability of making the proposed quarterlies large-sized books, and that is up to the readers. Such issues could be collected in one group and bound together, so would not meet with the most serious collector's objection to change -- lack of uniformity with past output. In favor of the larg books is the opportunity to make striking page layouts. Still looking into the future -- we plan to bring out a second group of F in lay reproductions. Probably a new set of eight prints. The first offering was enthusiastically received, and some readers regretted that they did not get certain illustrations in the set, notably the faces inside the ring from "The Blind Spot". These will be included in the next set, together with some illustrations of new vintage. Suggestions for the second set will be received with interest. There are still a few of the first sets left, by the way. I wish to thank the fans for the excellent support this magazine has always received. Both in ever-present suggestions for contents and improvements, which are very useful, and for the fine co-operation of all the fan magazines and organizations. There is no room anywhere for doubt that Famous Fantastic Mysteries has been so wholeheartedly taken into so distinguished a brotherhood. - - MARY GNAEDINGER (Fank R. Paul - cont from page 1 - below) ies. He continued doing all covers for this magazine until 1929, his final "Amazing" cover being that gracing the June, 1929 issue. However, at this time Gernsback was issuing Science Wonder Stories, Air Wonder Stories, and Science Wonder Quarterly. Paul did all covers for the "Wonder" magazines under Gernsback. After Standard took over, he was missing for awhile, but finally came back for interior artwork. From early in 1936 to the end of 1938 no magazine with a Paul cover appeared: Editor Erisman of the defunct Marvel Science Stories brought him back. Now (since that time, in fact) one sees a fairly large number of Paul covers, but nothing like the number of covers (or the regularity of same) that he did in the old days. Still, he remains near the top in popularity. Since 1938 he has done covers for Dynamic Science Stories, Science Fiction, Future Fiction, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Fantastic Novels, Fantastic Adventures, and Science Fiction Quarterly; and Planet Stories will soon be added to the list. His many drawings over a long period of time have shown his inventive mechanical genius. After 15 years he can still draw ships and machines which look new, practical and "amazing!" Many of the ultra-streamlined machinery we see in use today is greatly reminiscent of the machine Paul drew back in the old days. Paul has a great fondness for the imaginative type of reading, and illustrating -- that is apparent in the great majority of his drawings. Talking with him we get the feeling that he liked the old type of stf much better -- when the writers for the most part were not professional writers but amateurs with ideas.
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Fantasy Fiction Field Illustrated News Weekly (Denvention Issue) Page 3 Here's Mary Gnaedinger (continued) has done some fine work on the inside drawings. Finlay has a knockout cover for it, and is the artist for the full page illustration to "The Colour out of Space". In the issue following that, comes "The Afterglow", last of the great England trilogy and probably the best of the three Beatrice and Stern adventures in the Vacant World. For the coming year the program is one of consistent quality. More Merritt - - more trilogies started and finished - - Garrett P. Serviss, Frances Stevens -- you know what these names mean. With the October issue, Famous Fantastic Mysteries is two years old. In that time the magazine has used olny a small percentage of the fine old champagne quality stuff available. Readers who have subscriptions can look forward to many landmarks in fantasy fiction which are still to be displayed. Much has been said about the advisability of making the proposed quarterlies large-sized books, and that is up to the readers. Such issues could be collected in one group and bound together, so would not meet with the most serious collector's objection to change -- lack of uniformity with past output. In favor of the larg books is the opportunity to make striking page layouts. Still looking into the future -- we plan to bring out a second group of F in lay reproductions. Probably a new set of eight prints. The first offering was enthusiastically received, and some readers regretted that they did not get certain illustrations in the set, notably the faces inside the ring from "The Blind Spot". These will be included in the next set, together with some illustrations of new vintage. Suggestions for the second set will be received with interest. There are still a few of the first sets left, by the way. I wish to thank the fans for the excellent support this magazine has always received. Both in ever-present suggestions for contents and improvements, which are very useful, and for the fine co-operation of all the fan magazines and organizations. There is no room anywhere for doubt that Famous Fantastic Mysteries has been so wholeheartedly taken into so distinguished a brotherhood. - - MARY GNAEDINGER (Fank R. Paul - cont from page 1 - below) ies. He continued doing all covers for this magazine until 1929, his final "Amazing" cover being that gracing the June, 1929 issue. However, at this time Gernsback was issuing Science Wonder Stories, Air Wonder Stories, and Science Wonder Quarterly. Paul did all covers for the "Wonder" magazines under Gernsback. After Standard took over, he was missing for awhile, but finally came back for interior artwork. From early in 1936 to the end of 1938 no magazine with a Paul cover appeared: Editor Erisman of the defunct Marvel Science Stories brought him back. Now (since that time, in fact) one sees a fairly large number of Paul covers, but nothing like the number of covers (or the regularity of same) that he did in the old days. Still, he remains near the top in popularity. Since 1938 he has done covers for Dynamic Science Stories, Science Fiction, Future Fiction, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Fantastic Novels, Fantastic Adventures, and Science Fiction Quarterly; and Planet Stories will soon be added to the list. His many drawings over a long period of time have shown his inventive mechanical genius. After 15 years he can still draw ships and machines which look new, practical and "amazing!" Many of the ultra-streamlined machinery we see in use today is greatly reminiscent of the machine Paul drew back in the old days. Paul has a great fondness for the imaginative type of reading, and illustrating -- that is apparent in the great majority of his drawings. Talking with him we get the feeling that he liked the old type of stf much better -- when the writers for the most part were not professional writers but amateurs with ideas.
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