Category: Science Fiction Magazines – MF&SF

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction – April, 1952 [Stefan Salter]

Another cover by Stephen Salter.   The magazine went by the title “The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction” from February of 1951 through September of 1952, when it reverted to and remained as “The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction“. 

Though subtle, the “&” symbol in the title was actually the silhouette of a smiling impish face, and also forms the bottom part of the letter “F” in the word “Fantasy“.  (You can see it, below.)  This symbol seems to have been the magazine’s unofficial logo, and was displayed on the back cover (and randomly in the interior) during the 1950s.  (Information from VISCO.)

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – Winter-Spring, 1950 [Stefan Salter]

Another cover by Stephen Salter, probably completed using an airbrush.  Disconcerting, intriguing, and fascinating, all at once. 

This was the second issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and the first of ten covers Salter completed for the publication, nine of which appeared from “this” 1950 issue through December of 1951, and the last for June of 1955.

The Magazine of Fantasy – Fall, 1949 [Kodachrome by Bill Stone]

Here’s the cover of the first issue of The Magazine of Fantasy, prior to its change of title to the far familiarly known The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. 

Notice that the cover is actually a photographic print from Kodachrome film, rather than the reproduction of a painting.  The image of the long-tailed, smiling, nebulous whatever-it-is has been retouched upon the original image, while the model upon which he (it’s?) superimposed looks more inconvenienced than she does frightened.  

Notice that the cover presents a nearly full list of the magazine’s table of contents, rather than – unlike most pulp magazines – the title and author of a select story.  (“Private – Keep Out!”, by Philip MacDonald is superb…)

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – September, 1956 (Featuring “Operation Afreet”, by Poul Anderson) [Frank Kelly Freas]

Unlike the majority of science fiction (and fantasy) magazines of the 40s and 50s, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction eschewed interior art.  The issue of September, 1956 was an exception to this policy, featuring two illustrations – below – by Frank Kelly Freas, which accompanied Poul Anderson’s tale “Operation Afreet”. 

The third illustration is an allegorical image created by the unknown artist “H.M.”

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The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction – Seventeenth Series, Edited by Edward L. Ferman – 1966 (1967, 1968) [Davis Meltzer]

Cyprian’s Room, by Monica Sterba

Out Of Time, Out of Place, by George Callyn

Vom Goom’s Gambit, by Victor Contoski

Bumberboom, by Avram Davidson

Fill In The Blank, by Ron Goulart

Balgrummo’s Hell, by Russell Kirk

Corona, by Samuel R. Delaney

The Inner Circles, by Fritz Leiber

Problems of Creativeness, by Thomas M. Disch

Encounter In The Past, by Robert Nathan

The Sea Change, by Jean Cox

The Devil and Democracy, by Brian Cleeve

Randy’s Syndrome, by Brian W. Aldiss

The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction – Eighteenth Series, Edited by Edward L. Ferman – 1972 (1970, 1971) [Unknown Artist]

The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D, by J.G. Ballard

The People Trap, by Robert Sheckley

In His Own Image, by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

Ogre!, by Ed Jesby

Lunatic Assignment, by Sonya Dorman

Gifts From the Universe, by Leonard Tushnet

Sundown, by David Redd

Beyond the Game, by Vance Aandahl

Sea Home, by William M. Lee

That High-Up Blue Day That Saw the Black Sky-Train Come Spinning, by David R. Bunch

Muscadine, by Ron Goulart

Final War, by K.M. O’Donnell

I Have My Vigil, by Harry Harrison

The Egg of The Glak, by Harvey Jacobs

The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction – Sixteenth Series, Edited by Edward L. Ferman – 1965 (1966, 1967) [Karel Thole]

Luana, by Gilbert Thomas

And Madly Teach, by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

Matog, by Joan Patrick Basch

The Key, by Isaac Asimov

The Seven Wonders of The Universe, by Mase Mallette

A Few Kindred Spirits, by John Christopher

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, by Philip K. Dick

Three For Carnival, by John Shepley

Experiment in Autobiography, by Ron Goulart

The Adjusted, by Kenneth Bulmer

The Age of Invention, by Norman Spinrad

Apology To Inky, by Robert M. Green, Jr.

This Moment of the Storm, by Roger Zelazny

The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction – Tenth Series, Edited by Robert P. Mills – 1959 (1960, 1961) [Jack Gaughan]

Nikita Eisenhower Jones, by Robert F. Young

Who Dreams of Ivy, by Will Worthington

Mine Own Ways, by Richard McKenna

The Rainbow Gold, by Jane Rice

Crazy Maro, by Daniel Keyes

Something, by Allen Drury

It’s a Great Big Wonderful Universe, by Vance Aandahl

Man Overboard, by John Collier

The Blind Pilot, by Charles Henneberg (translated by Damon Knight)

A Divvil With The Women, by Niall Wilde

The Martyr, by Poul Anderson

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, by Holley Cantine

Apres Nouse, by Avram Davidson

Interbalance, by Katherine MacLean

Infinity, by Rosser Reeves

The Replacement, by Robert Murray

The Fellow Who Married the Maxill Girl, by Ward Moore