 "Fantastic Adventures" competition included "Unknown", which had been launched just a couple of months earlier, in March 1939, and "Weird Tales", which was first published in 1923; but instead of attempting to emulate either one, "Fantastic Adventures" focused on adventure stories in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs.Palmer probably acquired some fantasy-oriented material that had been submitted to "Amazing Stories", which gave him an immediate stream of submissions to work with.However, according to Ashley the first issue was quite weak