SUPER SCIENCE STORIES (Nov. 1950)

     Here are some highlights from the November 1950 issue of SUPER SCIENCE STORIES (Vol. 7, #3), published by Fictioneers, Inc., a division of Popular Publications.  The "Fandom's Corner" column by James V. Taurasi contains reviews of a bunch of SF fanzines of the day, as well as news that Australian SF fandom "has all but collapsed."  Taurasi mentions that fan Lee Hoffman "offers to write for any fan magazine," referring to Lee as "him" (when, in fact, Lee was a female fan; she began publishing the notable fanzine Quandry in August 1950).   

     Virgil Finlay provides the interior illo for Poul Anderson's cover-featured novel this issue, "Flight to Forever."  Frank R. Paul (best known to comics fans as the illustrator of the cover of Marvel Comics #1 in 1939) drew the illos for the stories "The Soul Makers" and "Doom Ship" in this issue.  The author of the story "Sunken Universe," credited to one Arthur Merlyn (ha!), was in fact James Blish.  (The story, according to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, had originally appeared in the May 1942 issue.)

     Finally, in this issue's long lettercol, one reader asks if other readers have heard the new SF radio drama series Dimension X and 2000 Plus, while another reader notes that the year 2000 itself is "not so far off when you come to think of it."

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