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Fantascience Digest, v. 1, issue 1, November-December 1937
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Page 20 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST who has seen science-fiction rise swiftly and fall hard since Amazing Stories first peeked grotesquely from the newsstands, will make Astounding truly outstanding in one way if not in another. He may even change the title to Popular-Super-Sciences, featuring [[?]] piece of fiction and a dozen fact articles in each issue. Who knows? It is supposed that Campbell is negotiating with Virgil Finlay, leaning-post of Weird Tales, to illustrate the revamped magazine---though the information is, at the most, uncertain. Mention of Virgil Finlay renews pleasant thoughts of the enjoyable week your correspondent recently spent with the FInlays in Rochester, New York. It was fascinating to watch Virgil at work, for he is a most painstaking liner[[?]]--- carefully placing each tiny dot in the desired position, not jerking the pen all over the paper, as young imitators often do. Time means little to Virgil. He spends as much as three days on a single drawing, usually working all night and all day to meet a fast-approaching deadline. A semi-biographical personality sketch of his life and interests appears in the reader's department of the December Weird Tales, on the stands tomorrow. You'll recognize the issue by the nude on the cover, which Virgil has painted to illustrate Nictsin[[?]] Dyalhis's[[?]] first story in four years, "The Sea Witch." Esquire, which in the past year has
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Page 20 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST who has seen science-fiction rise swiftly and fall hard since Amazing Stories first peeked grotesquely from the newsstands, will make Astounding truly outstanding in one way if not in another. He may even change the title to Popular-Super-Sciences, featuring [[?]] piece of fiction and a dozen fact articles in each issue. Who knows? It is supposed that Campbell is negotiating with Virgil Finlay, leaning-post of Weird Tales, to illustrate the revamped magazine---though the information is, at the most, uncertain. Mention of Virgil Finlay renews pleasant thoughts of the enjoyable week your correspondent recently spent with the FInlays in Rochester, New York. It was fascinating to watch Virgil at work, for he is a most painstaking liner[[?]]--- carefully placing each tiny dot in the desired position, not jerking the pen all over the paper, as young imitators often do. Time means little to Virgil. He spends as much as three days on a single drawing, usually working all night and all day to meet a fast-approaching deadline. A semi-biographical personality sketch of his life and interests appears in the reader's department of the December Weird Tales, on the stands tomorrow. You'll recognize the issue by the nude on the cover, which Virgil has painted to illustrate Nictsin[[?]] Dyalhis's[[?]] first story in four years, "The Sea Witch." Esquire, which in the past year has
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