[SFCC] Science Fiction/Fantasy Zines, Historical Adventure Pulps, etc.

[Melissa Conway]

All,

Cay Sehbert has asked me to post this message. If anyone is interested in any of these items, please contact Mr. Sehbert directly.

SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY ZINES, HISTORICAL ADVENTURE PULPS, ETC.

RARE 1940s ITEMS FOR SALE FROM PRIVATE COLLECTION
For further details, CONTACT: caysehnert at yahoo.com<mailto:caysehnert at yahoo.com> (Southern California)
Reasonable offers for multiple item purchases will be considered.


SciFi/Fantasy Zines:

Diablerie Bill Watson, et al. All issues illustrated:

Vol. 1 #1, January 1944, 20 pages, Rumination on rum by E. Hoffman Price, $65
Vol. 1 #2, February 1944, 22 pages, Note from Clark Ashton Smith on Pg. 17, $50
Vol. 1 #3 March 1944, 22 pages, "One Last Word" laid-in sheet, $50
May 1944, 28 pages, tribute to Robert E. Howard, cool pasted-in visuals, $65

Nova, The "Quality" Fanzine, Al Ashley, et al. Illustrated:

Vol. 1 # III, Winter 1943-44, 44 pages, Ronald Clyne back cover.
Contains "Insulation" a fantastical nine-page screed on termites by E.E. "Doc" Smith $65

Fan-Dango F. Towner Laney, Fantasy Amateur Press Association:

Vol. III, No. 4, Summer 1946, 8 pages, Illustrated, Pacificon Issue, $35

The Thing, Burton Crane, Helen Wesson, et al. Illustrated:

Spring 1946, 30 pages, interesting fandom perspectives from post-war Japan, $45
Summer 1946, 32 pages, Includes the mysterious James Russell Gray (see "The Mad Muse" below), $45

The Knanve, The Magazine for Knanves T. Bruce Yerke et al:

Issue No. 1, January 1943, 10 pages, by refugees from the LASFS, $65
No. 2, "Twouary 1944", 10 pages, Article on Hollywood's "Bronholly Canyon" and the Bronson Caves is illustrated with two small pasted-in photo prints, $65
No. 3, April 1944, 10 pages, an Outsider publication, $65

En Garde, Al Ashley, et al. Illustrated:

Whole No. XV, October 1945, 20 pages, a FAPA publication, $60
       "          XVI, January 1946, 26 pages, Pacificon ad $65
       "          XVII, April 1946, 40 pages, 4th Anniversary Issue,
Includes "A. Merritt, Master of Myths" by A.E. van Vogt, $65


Chanticleer,Walt Liebscher et al, illustrated:

First issue, no date, 32 pages. Jack Wiedenbeck airbrush cover. Includes one-page parody of Fancyclopedia, "Flancyclopedia". $35

Le Zombie  Bob Tucker et al:

No. 54, September 1943, 28 pages total, illustrated. Ronald Clyne Parsec cover. Also includes (bound in): No. 55, November 1943, Michicon 1943 back cover, $60
No. 56 January 1944, 48 pages plus covers and 4-page Nebula zine sample. Illustrated. Frank Robinson airbrush cover, 5th anniversary. Canadian Fandom ad back cover. $60
No. 61, July 1946, 14 pages plus 1-page photo spread insert that includes Frederik Pohl, Clifford Simak, Cyril Kornbluth and others. Asp cover. $60

Spicy Tellus Jay Griggs, Bill Watson, et al:

No. 3/8, 16 pages, illustrated. Boy, is it ever illustrated.
Mysterious, crude, rude, bawdy, abstruse, all of the above. If they have cakes in the pleasure dungeons of space, this thing takes one. Mentions "Friscocon". $45

Gosh Wow! 3, Robert Schoenfeld:

Issue #3, Summer 1969, 36 pages, illustrated.
Bernie Wrightson cover, George Metzger Moondog back cover. $35

Pulps (Original Sun Publications, not Odyssey reprints):

Golden Fleece Historical Adventure October 1938 Vol. 1 #1 $65
                "                              "                         November 1938 Vol 1 #2 $65
                "                              "                      December 1938 Vol. 1 #3 $65
                "                              "                              March 1939 Vol. 2 #3 $35 (condition)
                "                              "                              May 1939 Vol. 2 #5 $60
                "                              "                              June 1939 Vol. 2 #6 $60
Package price for six pieces $325

Special Mystery Item:

The Mad Muse by James Russell Gray, inscribed and signed May 20, 1944. Softcover poetry, AOS Press, May 1944. Price pending further research.

Other than a mention in The Thing and a picture in Le Zombie, the only thing I could find on James Russell Gray is that he was from Hartshorne, Oklahoma and that he interviewed Oklahoma pioneers of Native American descent for the WPA. My earlier attempt to connect him to Bruno Fischer, who sometimes wrote as Russell Gray, now definitely seems misguided. But the Le Zombie connection and the frequent Horror/Terror/SciFi/Fantasy references in the content of the poetry place him " in-genre" and in the era of the others connected to these 40s zines.

Special note: Page 25 of Le Zombie No. 56 contains a brief review of Saturnalia #1, November 1943, by Art Sehnert, an 8-page fanzine by my father (published 2 months after my birth), which is also discussed in The Knanve #2. Probably no surviving copies, but who knows? Art is also shown in the Le Zombie No. 61 photo insert. I'd love to see Saturnalia, if a copy ever miraculously shows up.










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