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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 1, 1941

Page 28

SOUTHERN STAR
The Munsey Panorama
Page 28

Avalon, Claimed, and Serapion. From that point on, we never saw the author's name again, and so we wonder whose pen name he was. 

Also before '20 appeared three novels much talked about, but probally overrated: Jack Bechdolt's The Torch, and Garret Smith's After a Million Years and Between Worlds.

After the merger that created the Argosy-Allstory Weekly, there was a continuation of the big parade of excellent fantasies, and many of them would stand up well in the eyes of 1941 readers. 

Burroughs went on with the Tarzan and mars series, and introduced us to The Moon Maid and The War Chief. Cummings gave us The Fire People, and The Man Who Mastered Time. (And thereafter, if you ask me, he should used a nom de Plume hisself!) Ralph Milne Farley broke in with The Radio Man and sequels. A. Merritt, Will McMorrow, Homer Eon Flint, Garret Smith, J. U. Giesy, were much in evidence. That very excellent tale The Ju Ju Man came out in 1922, The Blind Spot in 1921. And if you think I'm kidding about Semi Dual, try the Wolf of Erlik, in '21. Mac-Isaac went off-the-trail with The Vanishing Professor. Florence Crew-Jones translated The Future Eve from the French. 

In 1928 Argosy ceased to be a magazine for the whole family, became a pulp devoted to the edification and relaxation of the Great American Male-- the armchair Napoleon, the front-yard Tarzan, the barber shop quarterback. But the G. A. M. ,  apparently, likes his fantasy too, so the big parade not only continued, but had its pace accelerated. (Say, Butch, is dat guy still following us? Cheese, kin ya imagine? We got a reader!)

After '28, Burroughs brought us the Venus tales, of which the first is not the best, and the wonderful ape-man gradually lost prestige. Cummings had fourteen serials and many novelettes during the decade; if you want 'em, take 'em. Seven serials by O. A. Kline. Pure hackwork, but I dote on 'em. You like? A mysterious person calling himself Slater LaMaster produced two very popular stories, Luckett of the Moon and The Phantom i the Rainbow. Murray Leinister did himself proud, and I mean proud, Brother, with The War of the Purple Gas. Mac-Isaac continued with World Brigands, The Hothouse World, and the Lost Land of Atzlan. 

If you've, by any chance, missed Garret Smith and wish to try him, I recommend that you start with The Girl in the Moon, 1928. That cover, mister, that cover! How could the story fail to please? 

   Other highlights:
     Carhart's Buccaneers 
       international, 1936. 
     Rogers' Locusts from Asia, 1937.
     Roscoe's War Declared!, 1935. 
     Rosny's Helgvor of the Blue River, 
       1932.
     Rousseau's World End, 1933.
     Vincent's Red Twilight, 1931.
     Zagat's Drink We Deep, 1937.

Gosh, this is hopeless. I give up. I try to be off-hand and casual like that, and look what happens! I start out with a brief summary, and wind up with a sort of damned running commentary, or something. A thousand pardons and a couple of thousand condolences, gentlemen. My excuse is that I am a fanatic, an antiquary, a dope. Joe Gilbert said you'd listen -- the falsifyin', misrepresentin' son-of-a-gun! Well, I hope you did listen -- I hope you're as nuts about these old tales as I am. I give you my word this is all very sincere. I was born like this, and I'll be doggoned if I ain't kinda proud of it. Even if I do talk when I ought to be listening. 

Selah, so be it, take it away. This is it, Joe, and if I do say it as shouldn't, it's a good thing with which to start fires in a circulating heater. 

Thanks, old hosses.

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SOUTHERN STAR The Munsey Panorama Page 28 Avalon, Claimed, and Serapion. From that point on, we never saw the author's name again, and so we wonder whose pen name he was. Also before '20 appeared three novels much talked about, but probally overrated: Jack Bechdolt's The Torch, and Garret Smith's After a Million Years and Between Worlds. After the merger that created the Argosy-Allstory Weekly, there was a continuation of the big parade of excellent fantasies, and many of them would stand up well in the eyes of 1941 readers. Burroughs went on with the Tarzan and mars series, and introduced us to The Moon Maid and The War Chief. Cummings gave us The Fire People, and The Man Who Mastered Time. (And thereafter, if you ask me, he should used a nom de Plume hisself!) Ralph Milne Farley broke in with The Radio Man and sequels. A. Merritt, Will McMorrow, Homer Eon Flint, Garret Smith, J. U. Giesy, were much in evidence. That very excellent tale The Ju Ju Man came out in 1922, The Blind Spot in 1921. And if you think I'm kidding about Semi Dual, try the Wolf of Erlik, in '21. Mac-Isaac went off-the-trail with The Vanishing Professor. Florence Crew-Jones translated The Future Eve from the French. In 1928 Argosy ceased to be a magazine for the whole family, became a pulp devoted to the edification and relaxation of the Great American Male-- the armchair Napoleon, the front-yard Tarzan, the barber shop quarterback. But the G. A. M. , apparently, likes his fantasy too, so the big parade not only continued, but had its pace accelerated. (Say, Butch, is dat guy still following us? Cheese, kin ya imagine? We got a reader!) After '28, Burroughs brought us the Venus tales, of which the first is not the best, and the wonderful ape-man gradually lost prestige. Cummings had fourteen serials and many novelettes during the decade; if you want 'em, take 'em. Seven serials by O. A. Kline. Pure hackwork, but I dote on 'em. You like? A mysterious person calling himself Slater LaMaster produced two very popular stories, Luckett of the Moon and The Phantom i the Rainbow. Murray Leinister did himself proud, and I mean proud, Brother, with The War of the Purple Gas. Mac-Isaac continued with World Brigands, The Hothouse World, and the Lost Land of Atzlan. If you've, by any chance, missed Garret Smith and wish to try him, I recommend that you start with The Girl in the Moon, 1928. That cover, mister, that cover! How could the story fail to please? Other highlights: Carhart's Buccaneers international, 1936. Rogers' Locusts from Asia, 1937. Roscoe's War Declared!, 1935. Rosny's Helgvor of the Blue River, 1932. Rousseau's World End, 1933. Vincent's Red Twilight, 1931. Zagat's Drink We Deep, 1937. Gosh, this is hopeless. I give up. I try to be off-hand and casual like that, and look what happens! I start out with a brief summary, and wind up with a sort of damned running commentary, or something. A thousand pardons and a couple of thousand condolences, gentlemen. My excuse is that I am a fanatic, an antiquary, a dope. Joe Gilbert said you'd listen -- the falsifyin', misrepresentin' son-of-a-gun! Well, I hope you did listen -- I hope you're as nuts about these old tales as I am. I give you my word this is all very sincere. I was born like this, and I'll be doggoned if I ain't kinda proud of it. Even if I do talk when I ought to be listening. Selah, so be it, take it away. This is it, Joe, and if I do say it as shouldn't, it's a good thing with which to start fires in a circulating heater. Thanks, old hosses.