Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 52 — page 3: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

So here we are at Christ- mas time again, with peace and goodwill to all men on Earth and any other planet that’s friendly. I wonder what the flying saucer boys think of all this oozing generosity— confined to a couple of weeks in the year. Ah, well, I’m no Scrooge, so I’ll wish you all a very merry Christmas! With that seasonal greeting over and done with I can get on to telling you some rather fine news that I hope will give you a happy new year. From the January 1955 issue we are going to give you a sixteen- page art paper section every month—nice glossy stuff that you usually find only in the ladies’ magazines. The sixteen pages will not by any means HCAMPBELL yd Al-- be ordinary pages. After all, you wouldn’t expect to find ordinary pages in Authentic, would you? Every one will have an illustration, some of them ‘ half-tones, supporting special features and stories that are planned with your wishes in view. Here you have a thrilling picture-full sup- plement that is bound to please you. This means that once more you'll be getting more from Authentic than from any other British science fiction maga- zine. (This trumpet I’m blow- ing came off a Christmas tree. Just what I wanted.) I know that you'll agree with me that such an increase in quality deserves an increase in price. And I know that comicloooks.conn