Fantasy Magazine

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Title: Fantasy Magazine (formerly Science Fiction Digest)
Publisher:
Editor(s): Maurice Z. Ingher, Conrad Ruppert, Julius Schwartz
Type:
Date(s): 1932-1937
Medium: Print
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Fandom: Science Fiction
Language: English
External Links: Several issues of Science Fiction Digest
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Fantasy Magazine was an early science fiction fanzine. It started as Science Fiction Digest in September 1932, under the editorship of Maurice Z. Ingher. In April 1933, Conrad Ruppert took over as editor, and in December 1933 it was renamed to Fantasy Magazine. It continued under that name until 1937. Julius Schwartz edited it from June 1934 onward.

In November 1933 it absorbed The Time Traveller.

Reviews

The year 1933 marked the dawn of the second era. THE TIME TRAVELER marked the encore of that era and the SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST was its actual beginning. THE SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST digested the entire field of the past. It carried over Mort Weisinger, Forrest J. Ackerman, ISA. Ray Palmer was the only one of that organization to survive the turn of the era. THE SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST gained in power until it is recognized, even to this day, as the finest fan magazine ever published. It discarded science as a subject for fan magazines almost into oblivion. It featured information about the professional publications and authors with a very small smattering of fan news.

Sam Moskowitz: The World Changes (Jan 1939)