Marvel Tales
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| Title: | Marvel Tales |
| Publisher: | William Crawford |
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| Date(s): | 1934-1935 |
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| Fandom: | Science Fiction, Weird Fiction |
| Language: | English |
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Marvel Tales was a five-issue zine published from May 1934 to Summer 1935.
About
According to William Crawford, the first issue was 40 pages, printed on both book paper and newsprint. It had a linoleum cover by L. A. Eshbach and illustrations by Guy L. Huey. The second issue was 60 pages, with a cover by F.V. Cortlandt, plus half-page illustrations by Beil Bazoites and F.V. Cortlandt.[1]
Fantasy Fans Read MARVEL TALES For the Best in Imaginative FictionMARVEL TALES is an extra-large-size magazine of seventy or more pages, featuring both weird and science fiction, as well as a few stories of pure fantasy. Among the authors who contribute to MARVEL'S pages, you will find the following: Ralph Milne Farley, George Allan England, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Stanton A. Coblentz, August W. Derleth, P. Schuyler Miller, L. A. Eshbach, A. Hyatt Verrill, Richard Tooker, David H. Keller, M.D., Miles J. Breuer, M.D. Clifford D. Simak, Harl Vincent, and many others. They are the "cream of the crop." The illustrating is done by Clay Ferguson, Jr.
MARVEL TALES sells for twenty cents a copy....
The Sixth Issue of MARVEL Contains
THE TITAN, by P. SCHUYLER MILLER
A long novel of a unique doom that threatened all earthly life, by a master of science-fiction.
THE SIXTH SENSE, by STANTON A COBLENTZ
An unknown scientist makes an odd discovery...
THE BRIDLE, by DAVID H. KELLER, M. D.
A powerful weird tale--so refereshinghly different that you will want to read it again and again...
THE COMING OF THE WHITE WORM, by C. A. SMITH
The tale of a horrible creature that invaded earth from another dimension.
THE SHAPES, by RICHARD TOOKER Contest story with an O. Henry ending
Ad placed in The Phantagraph #11. July 1935.
References
- ^ William Crawford and Edward E. Evert: Marvel Tales from start to date. Terrestrial Fantascience Guild Bulletin #9 pp 3-4. May 1935.