Fantastic was a fantasy and science fiction magazine published in the United States from 1952 to 1980. A sister publication, Fantastic Adventures, was merged into Fantastic beginning with May/June 1953 issue.
Begun in 1952 by editor Howard Browne and publishers Ziff Davis (Z-D) as an attempt at a sophisticated and handsome digest-sized magazine, Fantastic was initially a success, and became even more so by its third issue, which featured a story ...
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Fantastic was a fantasy and science fiction magazine published in the United States from 1952 to 1980. A sister publication, Fantastic Adventures, was merged into Fantastic beginning with May/June 1953 issue.
Begun in 1952 by editor Howard Browne and publishers Ziff Davis (Z-D) as an attempt at a sophisticated and handsome digest-sized magazine, Fantastic was initially a success, and became even more so by its third issue, which featured a story attributed to the enormously popular crime fiction writer Mickey Spillane. The story was actually written by Browne, a crime-fiction writer and editor who had been editing the pulp magazines line Z-D published at that time, including Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures, and the recently-folded Mammoth Detective, among others; apparently Spillane had told a version of the story he'd previously sold to Fantastic to a reporter from Life Magazine, where it appeared ahead of the Z-D magazine's publication, leaving Browne unwilling to run the...
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