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THE COMPLETE MARVEL TALES
2012réf. 31859Tacoma WA: Lance Thingmaker June 2012. First edition in book form. A fine copy in dust jacket with tiny tear to mid left front edge and cardboard slipcase. 31859. Quarto cloth backed boards. Limited to 300 copies of which this is one of 100 numbered copies. A facsimile reprint of the complete file of five issues. One of the better fanzines approaching or equaling in some instances the quality of content of the SF specialty pulps of the 1930s. The impressive list of contributors includes August Derleth H. P. Lovecraft David H. Keller Frank Belknap Long Robert E. Howard "The Garden of Fear" Robert Bloch first printing of "Lilies" his first published story originally submitted to WEIRD TALES and rejected by Farnsworth Wright P. Schuyler Miller "The Titan" Clifford D. Simak "The Creator" John Beynon Harris Amelia Reynolds Long Carl Jacobi Ralph Milne Farley and others. Reference: Moskowitz The Immortal Storm pp. 22-3. Pavlat and Evans Fanzine Index 1965 p. 66. Tymn and Ashley eds Science Fiction Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines pp. 401-04. Lance Thingmaker unknown
