From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9429 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 Saturday, July 30 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9429 Today's Subjects: ----------------- BONUS: $100 FEDEX Gift Card Opportunity ["FedEx Shopper Gift Opportunity"] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 06:29:46 -0400 From: "FedEx Shopper Gift Opportunity" Subject: BONUS: $100 FEDEX Gift Card Opportunity BONUS: $100 FEDEX Gift Card Opportunity http://venmosurvey.sa.com/nPCDYYopH2Db4NEl4TaBI4g6RJHqFk4GSRDwEXf6yNB7JjUZ1Q http://venmosurvey.sa.com/y-mrPvTzUBD06iQDll_40ppfbIFkjrg1TRENnVABJOCnNXvzUA or the last issue of Marvel Tales, dated Summer 1935, Crawford increased the size from digest to pulp format.[note 1] Moskowitz describes the change as a step backwards: "the atmosphere of compact, balanced professionalism...was lost completely", but praises the quality of the contents, singling out "Mars Colonizes" by Miles Breuer as one of Breuer's best stories. The issue also included short stories by Carl Jacobi, Emil Petaja, and Ralph Milne Farley, and the next instalments of both the serials in progress, by England and Miller. There was also a non-fiction piece by Forrest Ackerman. In 1936, Crawford announced in a fanzine, Fantasy Magazine, that he had obtained newsstand distribution for Marvel Tales, and gave details of his plans to convert it to a fully professional magazine. The next issue was to be 64 pages, priced at 15 cents, and would include stories by H. P. Lovecraft, E. E. Smith, Donald Wandrei, Murray Leinster, and others. Partial proofs were prepared, but the costs were too great for Crawford, and the issue never appeared. The proof copy included the final instalment of Miller's "The Titan", reprints of two round-robin stories (both titled The Challenge From Beyond) by well-known authors that had previously appeared in Fantasy Magazine, H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and several short stories, with artwork by Clay Ferguson and Frank Utpatel. Although the magazine never appeared, Crawford did manage to publish a hardcopy edition of The Shadow Over Innsmouth in 1936. Crawford's ambition was to demonstrate that the existing professional sf magazines were limiting the field by turning down good stories that did not fit their idea of what was acceptable. Moskowitz considers that Crawford proved his case, but without the finances to support national distribution of his magazines, he was doomed to fail. Science fiction historians Frank Parnell and Mike Ashley agree. Ashley describes Marvel Tales as "a worthwhile and exciting experiment that could have had a significant impact on the development of SF had it succeeded", and Crawford as a pioneer in his attempts to prove that science fiction need not adhere to the standard pulp formulas. Parnell and Ashley consider that Crawford was "the man who made the greatest effort to bridge the ga ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9429 **********************************************