Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 53 — page 137: what you’re looking at

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

AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION Steward, 166 McRoberts Avenue, Toronto 10, Ontario, and costs 15 cents a copy or one dollar for eight copies. It consists of twenty-six clearly printed, large pages with a stiffish cover and is quite an impressive fanzine—some of the inside illustrations are very good, too. It contains stories and all the usual fanzine features, including some cartoons, all with a Canadian bias, of course. A very nice publication, which does honour to fan publishing. * i, the London fanzine, is edited by E. C. Tubb, A. Vincent Clarke and J. Stuart Mackenzie, and is published from 5 Hans Place, S.W.1. No. 2 has all the good points of No. 1 and is better still. There is a long Manchester Convention report from several fans (surely the report to end all reports? Although | the stirred-up mud will prob- ably start everyone off again!) The letters column is long; the two “religious”’ pieces are gems, and the Bloodshot supplement caused our loud- est fanzine laugh for a long time. Normally iis ls. 6d., but the next (Christmas) issue will be 2s., and is promised to be 136 something special. We’re looking forward to it. S * PHANTASMAGORIA is edited by Derek Pickles, 197 Cutler Heights Lane, Bradford 4, and by Stan Thomas of 22 Marshfield Place, Bradford 5. They do not have a subscrip- tion fee. If you want to re- ceive PHANTASMAGORIA you must: a, write a letter of comment; b, send a fanzine; c, send a contribution (text, cartoons or money as a last resort). No. 2 to hand con- tains an editorial, a piece by Nigel Lindsay, another by Archie Mercer, letters and cartoons. The general effect is not very pretentious, but as it is meant to be a form of long letter, it is adequate. * Charles Lee Riddle, editor of Peon, has brought out a limited edition of 1953 CHECK- DEX—which is a complete listing of all the stories ap- pearing in science fiction and fantasy magazines published in the United States during 1953. We don’t know whether Charles has any copies for sale, but it might be worth writing to him. They cost 25 cents. His address is 108 Dunham Street, Norwich, Conn., U.S.A. comicloooks.conn