Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1949-Present Mercury Publications) comic books 1949-1951

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Fall, 1949. Cover by Bill Stone. Stories: "Bells on His Toes" by Cleve Cartmill, "Thurnley Abbey" by Perceval Landon, "Private-Keep Out!" by Philip MacDonald, "The Lost Room" by Fitz-James O'Brien, "The Hukle Is a Happy Beast" by Theodore Sturgeon, "Review Copy" by H. H. Holmes, "Men of Iron" by Guy Endore, "A Bride for the Devil" by Stuart Palmer, "Rooum" by Oliver Onions, "Perseus Had a Helmet" by Richard Sale, and "In the Days of Our Fathers" by Winona McClintic. Softcover, 5.5-in. x 7.5-in., 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

Spring, 1950, Volume 1, Number 2. Softcover, 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Summer 1950. Cover by Salter. Fantasy and Science Fiction stories: "Friday, the Nineteenth" by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, "Huge Beast" by Cleve Cartmill, "The Hat In the Hall" by Jack Iams, "The War Against the Moon" by Andre Maurois, "Dumb Supper" by Henderson Starke, "Ounce of Prevention" by Philip Carter, "The Case of Summerfield" by W.H. Rhodes, "Divine Right" by Betsy Curtis, "Born of Man and Woman" (1st published sf) by Richard Matheson, "Professor Pownall's Oversight" by H.R. Wakefield, "Haunt" by A. Bertram Chandler. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Fall, 1950, Volume 1, Number 4. Softcover, 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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December, 1950, Volume 1, Number 5. Softcover, 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by George Salter. Fantasy and science fiction stories by Oliver La Farge, R. Bretnor, Lawrence Goldman, Gene Hunter, Ray Bradbury, Wilson Tucker, Daniel Defoe, Graves Taylor, Matrin Gardner, Will Stanton, F. Tennyson Jesse, Maurice Murphy, and C. Daly King (as Jeremiah Prelan). Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by George Salter. "Through Channels" by Richard Matheson, plus other fantasy and science fiction stories by Poul Anderson, L. Sprague De Camp & Fletcher Pratt, Bruce Elliot, Idris Seabright, H. Nearing Jr, David Grinnell, Christopher Wood, R. Ellis Roberts, George Paul Elliot, Alan Nelson, and Manly Wade Wellman. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

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June 1951. Fantasy and Science fiction stories: "Old Man Henderson" by Kris Neville, "The Threepenny-Piece" by James Stephens, "Love Story" by Kay Rogers, "Bargain from Brunswick" by John Wyndham, "Scrap Iron" by Larry Sternig, "The Boy Next Door" by Chad Oliver, "The Twilight Planet" by Arthur J. Cox, "The Extreme Airiness of Duton Lang" by Percival Wilde, "?" by Ford McCormack, "The Glass of Supreme Moments" by Barry Pain, "'Twas Brillig..." by Evan H. Appelman, "Android" by C.H. Liddell, "A Story at Bedtime" by Dorothy K. Haynes. Softcover, 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by Chesley Bonestell. Fantasy and science fiction stories by Arthur C. Clarke, John P. McKnight, Robert Arthur, Betsy Curtis, Garrett Oppenheim, H. Nearing Jr, Philip MacDonald, John Langdon, Miriam Allen DeFord, John Leimert, H. F. Heard, Charles Dickens (1860 reprint), and Alan Nelson. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

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October 1951. Cover by George Salter. "Dress of White Silk" by Richard Matheson, plus other fantasy and science fiction stories by Alfred Bester, H. Russell Wakefield, Richard Deming, Joseph H. Gage, Donald A. Wollheim (as David Grinnell), Richard Brookbank, Margaret St. Clair (as Idris Seabright), L. Sprague DeCamp & Fletcher Pratt, and Cornell Woolrich. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

December 1951. Cover by George Salter and Dirone Photography. Fantasy and science fiction stories by Fritz Leiber, Percival Wilde, Manly Wade Wellman, Arthur Porges, Howard Schoenfeld, Margaret Irwin, Robert Arthur, Zenna Henderson, James S. Hart, Kenneth R. Deardorf, and H. Nearing Jr. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.