Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1949-Present Mercury Publications) comic books 1953

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January 1953. Cover by Alex Schomburg. Fantasy and Science fiction stories: "The Big Holiday" by Fritz Leiber, "The Footprint" by Mabel Seeley, "Perfect Creature" by John Wyndham, "The Mask of Demeter" by Martin Pearson and Cecil Corwin, "New Ritual" by Idris Seabright, "When the Devil Took the Professor" by Kurd Lasswitz and translated by Willy Ley, "The Last Magician" by Bruce Elliot, "The Isle of Voices" by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Joy Ride" by William Campbell Gault, "What Shadows We Pursue" by Russell Kirk, "The Chocolate Coach" by Doris Gilbert. Softcover, 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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February 1953. Cover by George Gibbens. Fantasy and science fiction stories: "The Green Thumb" by L. Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt, "The Time Watcher" by Oliver La Farge, "Loo Ree" by Zenna Henderson, "Technical Advisor" by Chad Oliver, "The Enemy" by Christopher Wood, "Stickeney and the Critic" by Mildred Clingerman, "Experiment" by Kay Rogers, "Virtuoso" by Herbert Goldstone, "Slipping Through the Keyhole" by Vance Randolph, "One in Three Hundred" by J.T. M'intosh, "Carne Vale" by Emilie H. Knarr, "Maybe Just a Little One" by R. Bretnor, "Roog" by Philip K. Dick. Softcover, 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by Chesley Bonestell. "Disappearing Act" by Richard Matheson. Plus other fantasy and science fiction stories by Anthony Boucher, Robert Sheckley, Richard Middleton, Ralph Robin, Wilson Tucker, Leslie Bigelow, H. Nearing Jr, Tom Brown, Margaret St. Clair (as Idris Seabright), Richard Parker, and Manly Wade Wellman. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 128 newsprint pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by Ed Emshwiller. Fantasy and science fiction stories by J. T. McIntosh, Esther Carlson, Kris Neville, Chad Oliver, A. Bertram Chandler, T. P. Caravan, Alan Nelson, Daniel Defoe, Oliver Saair, John P. McKnight, Hilbert Schenck Jr, R. Bretnor, Donald F. Reines, and W. B. Ready. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

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May 1953. Cover by Jack Coggins. Science fiction stories: "When Half-Gods Go" by Poul Anderson, "Snulbug" by Anthony Boucher, "Occupation" by Edward W. Ludwig, "Story Conference" by Arthur Porges, "Young-Man-With-Skull-at-His-Ear" byh Levi Crow, "Labor Supply" by John D. MacDonald, "There Did Not Remain a Word to Say" by Winona McClintic, "Leap Year Day" by Tom McMorrow Jr., "Aladdin's Lamp" by Kurd Lasswitz, "Lot" by Ward Moore, and "Mr. Elsie Smith" by Dana Lyon. Softcover, 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by George Gibbons. Fantasy and science fiction stories by Charles L. Harness, Isaac Asimov, Kris Neville, Bruce A. Agnew, Con Pederson, Leslie Charteris, Ralph Robin, Philip K. Dick, Arthur Porges, James Blish, W. B. Ready, Morris Hershman, H. Nearing Jr, and Evelyn E. Smith. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

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July 1953. Cover by Emsh. Science fiction stories: ""The Star Gypsies" by William Lindsay Gresham, "The Adventures of the Snith in Time" by Mack Reynolds and August Derleth, "The Hypnoglyph" by John Anthony, "The Untimely Toper" by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, "Man" by Dave Dryfoos, "Mop-Up" by Arthur Porges, "Yankee Exodus" by Ruth M. Goldsmith, "The Model of a Science Fiction Editor" (poem) by Anthony Boucher, "The Friends of the Friends" by Henry James, Judgment Planet" by Idris Seabright, "Expendable" by Philip K. Dick, "The King's Wishes" by Robert Sheckley, and "Star Light, Star Bright" by Alfred Bester. Softcover, 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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August 1953. Cover by Jack Coggins. Fantasy and science fiction stories: "Gratitude Guaranteed" by R. Bretnor and Kris Neville, "Rustle of Wings" by Fredric Brown, "Mr. Kinkaid's Pasts" by J.J. Coupling, "One Other" by Manly Wade Wellman, "MS Found in a Vacuum" by P.M. Hubbard, "Captive Audience" by Ann Warren Griffith, "Measure of a Man" by Ward Moore, "Told Under Oath" by Lord Dunsany, "Open Ears" by Ralph Robin, "Randall" by Lavinia R. Davis, "The Cerebrative Psittacoid" by H. Nearing, Jr. "At the Door" by Ben Ray Redman, "A Warning to the Furious" by Eando Binder. Softcover, 5.5-in. x 7.5-in.; 132 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by Jack Coggins. Fantasy and science fiction stories by Poul Anderson, L. Sprague DeCamp & Fletcher Pratt, Alan Nelson, Lion Miller, Christopher Wood, Richard Sale, Thelma D. Hamm, Alfred Bester, and Peter Phillips. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by Ed Emshwiller. "Attitudes" by Phillip José Farmer, plus other fantasy and science fiction stories by Esther Carlson, Arthur Porges, Charles M. Harness, Raymond Chandler, Bill Brown, Poul Anderson, and Kay Rogers. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 128 newsprint pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by Mel Hunter. Fantasy and science fiction stories by Clifford D. Simak, Robert Abernathy, Margaret St. Clair (as Idris Seabright), Mindret Lord, Stewart Royce, Vance Randolph, Kris Neville, Randall Garrett, Cleve Cartmill, Theodore Sturgeon, and Mildred Clingerman. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.

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Cover by Ed Emshwiller. Fantasy and science fiction stories by G. Gordon Dewey & Peter Grainger (as Max Dancey), Zenna Henderson, Esther Carlson, Winona McClintic, Robert Moore Williams, Jerome Barry, Guy DeAngelis, H. Nearing Jr, William Lindsay Gresham, and Arthur Porges. Softcover. 5.5-in. x 7.5-in. 132 pages, black and white (all text). Cover price $0.35.