Magazine: Fantastic
Bibliographic comments: US magazine that published science fiction, retitled Fantastic Science Fiction Stories 1959–1960
and Fantastic Stories of the Imagination 1960–1965 before reverting to Fantastic 1965–1980.
• Only issues with contents of interest to this library are listed here, highlighted in white.
Fantastic, #1
Howard Browne, ed.
June 1952
Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
Digest, 164 pages
$0.35
Notes:
• Vol. 1, No. 1.
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Walter M. Miller, Jr., Six and Ten Are Johnny // Sam Martinez, For Heaven's Sake // Paul W. Fairman,
"Someday They'll Give Us Guns" // H. B. Hickey, Full Circle // Louise Lee Outlaw, The Runaway // Kris Neville,
The Opal Necklace // Ray Bradbury, The Smile // H. L. Gold, And Three to Get Ready... // Isaac Asimov, What If
// Raymond Chandler, Professor Bingo's Snuff
Fantastic, #6
Howard Browne, ed.
May 1953
Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
Digest, 164 pages
$0.35
Notes:
• Vol. 2, No. 3.
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: William P. McGivern, Jinn and Tonic // John Wyndham, Reservation Deferred // Isaac Asimov, Sally //
Roger Dee, Guest Artist // Alfred Bester, The Roller Coaster // Esther Carlson, Room with a View // Chad Oliver,
Hardly Worth Mentioning // Stephen Vincent Benét, Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer
Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, #60
Cele Goldsmith, ed.
October 1959
Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
Digest, 132 pages
$0.35
Notes:
• Vol. 8, No. 10.
• Only fiction is listed.
• 'The Magic, Magic Carpet' is set on the moon, inspired by 'The Arabian Nights'.
Fiction: John Christopher, Winter Boy, Summer Girl // A. Bertram Chandler, The Magic, Magic Carpet // Marion
Zimmer Bradley, Conquering Hero // Jack Sharkey, Ship Ahoy! // Tom Godwin, Empathy
Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, #69
Cele Goldsmith, ed.
July 1960
Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
Digest, 148 pages
$0.35
Notes:
• Vol. 9, No. 7.
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Poul Anderson, The Covenant (Part 1 of 5) // Isaac Asimov, The Covenant (Part 2 of 5) // Robert Sheckley,
The Covenant (Part 3 of 5) // Murray Leinster, The Covenant (Part 4 of 5) // Robert Bloch, The Covenant (Part 5
of 5) // Franklin M. Davis, Jr., Special Report // Rosel George Brown, There's Always a Way // Jack
Sharkey, The Crispin Affair (Part 1 of 2)
Fantastic, #128
Joseph Ross, ed.
September 1965
Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc.
Digest, 164 pages
$0.50
Notes:
• Vol. 15, No. 1.
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Fritz Leiber, Stardock // Isaac Asimov, Sally // Clifford D. Simak, "You'll Never Go Home Again" //
Theodore Sturgeon, The Dark Room // David H. Keller, M.D., The Worm
Fantastic, #133
Joseph Ross, ed.
July 1966
Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc.
Digest, 164 pages
$0.50
Notes:
• Vol. 15, No. 6.
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Chad Oliver, Just Like a Man // Clifford D. Simak, The Trouble with Ants // David V. Reed, Where Is Roger
Davis? // Tarleton Fiske, Almost Human // Isaac Asimov, Satisfaction Guaranteed // Henry Kuttner, Satan Sends
Flowers // Theodore Sturgeon, The Way Home
Fantastic, #151
Ted White, ed.
June 1969
Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc.
Digest, 148 pages
$0.50
Notes:
• Vol. 18, No. 5.
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Jack Vance, Emphyrio (Part 1 of 2) // Bruce McAllister, The Big Boy // C. M. Kornbluth, Time Bum // L. R.
Summers, The Opal Necklace // Kris Neville, The Opal Necklace // Eric Frank Russell, The Sin of Hyacinth Peuch
// Shirley Jackson, Root of Evil // Isaac Asimov, What If
Fantastic, #189
Ted White, ed.
December 1975
Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc.
Digest, 132 pages
$1.00
Notes:
• Vol. 25, No. 1.
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Avram Davidson, The Church of Saint Satan and Pandaemons // Lin Carter, The City in the Jewel //
George Alec Effinger, Lydectes: On the Nature of Sport // Vsevolod Ivanov, Sisyphus, Son of Aeolus // Barry N.
Malzberg, The Thing Down Hallway 9 // James Lincoln Warren, The Purvess Incident // Colin Saxton, The Flyer //
Richard Stooker, The Pi-A-Saw Bird // Felix C. Gotschalk, Pandora's Cryogenic Box // David R. Bunch, The
Strange Case of the Birds