A. Merritt's Fantasy Magazine, October 1950 — page 129: what you’re looking at

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And master-artist l'inlay is to be appropriately com- mended for perhaps the millionth time, as I raise my voice in the wilderness in admiration, on the way he can bring outstanding virtues to any story he’s been put to illustrate. 1 am also SInRerey looking forward to more covers by im. ; Next to Finlay, I feel that artists Paul and Lawrence tie for second place. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't think it il advice if you could use only the “Big Three” of STIantasy art to illustrate and design all of your four publica- tions. They deserve the work and we deserve seeing more of them. Bok, I’m afraid, is a better author than an artist. Actually, he hap- pens to be one of our greatest ST} antasy authors in existence today, which should give you a bit of a hint regarding the usage of any proposed writers in the future. I’d dote on secing his posthumous collaborations on Mer- ritt’s works, a very appropos addition to your files I may say. Eric North’s “The Green Flame” was ade- quately designated as a “weird novelette of sin- ister power” on your contents page, and ample credit should be bestowed to artist Paul Calle in dramatizing the eeriness of the tale with his portraits. Callé, incidently, should be appointed work on horror, supernatural and “haunted house” epics only. One can see that these are his stamping grounds. Before concluding, I would like to have my other fellow readers note the fact that I have about 1,000 STFantasy mags and books for swap; SF magazines from the late twenties up to 49, consisting mostly of antastic Adventures, Amazing Stories, old Wonders, old Weirds, Famous Fantastic Mystertes, Fantastic Novels, Planets and several other titles which go into forming a pile of over a thousand SIX magazines I’m interested in swapping away. 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