 Despite the weakness of the lead story, the second issue was a marked improvement over the first, with well-received stories by Nelson S. Bond and John Russell Fearn (as "Thornton Ayre").Burroughs returned to "Fantastic Adventures" in 1941, with a series of novelettes in his Carson of Venus series; there were four in all between March 1941 and March 1942, each with cover art by J. Allen St. John, and the result was a significant boost to "Fantastic Adventures" circulation.A majority of the stories in "Fantastic Adventures" came from a small group of writers who often wrote under house names.