fantasy magazine fantasy british pulp science fiction magazine published issues editor war started enlisted raf magazine closed publisher paid respectable rates result able obtain good quality material including stories publication history science fiction magazine imported launch magazines market available early date british magazine launched pearson launched weekly tabloid format aimed juvenile market soon editor began receive sophisticated stories targeted adult audience tried change magazine focus include mature fiction issues falling sales led pearson kill magazine failure gave british publishers impression britain support science fiction publication despite failure year later publisher strand magazine decided launch group genre pulp magazines include science fiction title group plan idea young editor help british science fiction reader active fan circles early 1930s searching good submissions able obtain stories titles western stories launched science fiction title delayed recalled later issued memo requirements stories restricting threw contributors complete project placed hold months subsequently persuaded subsidiary launch science fiction pulp magazine titled successful convince ahead original plan fantasy launched july issue dated year issue appeared months later final issue june dated year enlisted pilot world war started fourth issue prepared clear paper coming decided close magazine contents reception lead story issue menace metal men reprint british edition stories issue new contributors included couple writers known science fiction world contributed magazines article travel continued series articles published paid competitive rates fiction able attract good quality submissions subsequently reprinted included screen described historian critic story valley doom vampire void reprinted fantastic having submitted russell agent new story editor told story thirty years old initially denied possible ultimately accepted reprint science fiction historian comments indicated russell fiction stood test time main artist russian born artist worked pearson responsible covers interior artwork covers work described crude mediocre science fiction art historian regards cover second issue illustrating winged terror highly effective easily best thing details fantasy printed pulp format pages priced issues edited published volume issue dated year
Fantasy (1938 magazine)