From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #6875 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, July 5 2021 Volume 14 : Number 6875 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The first critical item you must have for your Escape bag ["The Escape Ba] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 04:09:23 -0400 From: "The Escape Bag" Subject: The first critical item you must have for your Escape bag The first critical item you must have for your Escape bag http://promindcompllx.us/gqCghcG66hUhxzEbXUeKl0otTPBlrqiCrJV-bMhisQOChoXX http://promindcompllx.us/_NRWfuEHSq6av9xPd1msObPMyuSsjhMsMSQn7jT21uo7G81O ile at Ziff-Davis, Hamling had become familiar with Fantastic Adventures, the fantasy companion to Ziff-Davis's Amazing Stories, and he was a fan of Charles F. Myers' "Toffee" stories, which had appeared in Fantastic Adventures from the late 1940s. These were humorous stories about a man and his beautiful imaginary girlfriend, Toffee, with what sf historian Joe Sanders calls an "exaggerated pose of naughtiness": nakedness was implied but never directly described, and sex was only hinted at. Hamling printed several "Toffee" stories in Imagination, and when he launched Imaginative Tales, he reprinted Shades of Toffee, a book-length story that had appeared in the June 1950 Fantastic Adventures, in the first issue. The first six issues included novels in the same vein by either Charles Myers or Robert Bloch, and short fiction soon began to appear. With the seventh issue, dated September 1955, Hamling converted Imaginative Tales to more closely resemble Imagination, printing science fiction rather than fantasy. Mike Ashley describes the contents from this point on as "unremarkable space opera"; regular contributors included some of the same writers who wrote for Imagination, including Geoff St. Reynard and Dwight V. Swain. Hamling obtained stories from Edmond Hamilton, who Sanders considers "the most readable of the novelists", but he also printed Raymond Palmer's "The Metal Emperor"b"a dreadful Shaveristic adventure" according to Ashley, and "possibly the worst story published in either of Hamling's magazines", according to Sanders. Henry Slesar's first sale, "The Brat", appeared in the November 1955 issue. Other writers included many authors who had been regular contributors to Amazing StoriesbHamling was familiar with these writers from his time at Ziff-Davis. Non-fiction features appeared once Hamling gave up on the novels-only format: a letter column, editorials, and an sf movie news column, "Scientifilm Marquee", contributed by Forrest Ackerman. With the title change to Space Travel, science articles by Henry Bott and Guenther Schmidt were adde ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #6875 **********************************************