British Space Fiction Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 3
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Overview:
- Title: British Space Fiction Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 3
- Author: Vargo Statten
- Year: 1955
- Publisher: Dragon Publications Ltd.
- Price: 1/6
- Pages: 132
- Binding: digest
- Type: MAGAZINE
- Title Reference: British Space Fiction Magazine - 1955
- Notes:
- Vol. 2 (spacing) All British (spacing) No.3 from title page. Front cover has contents with title thus: British Space Fiction Magazine edited by Vargo Statten Vol. II No.3. British Space Fiction Magazine, (Vol. II, No. 3) running downwards from top through midpoint of spine.
- No printing date on book. MIT Index to the S-F Magazines and Mike Ashley in Transformations give the month for this pub as August, used here.
- Cover art is not credited.
- Edited by Vargo Statten. Vargo Statten is a well established pseudonym of John Russell Fearn. Fearn used pseudonyms to fill in material for his magazines, thus almost any name used could be one of his, the total number he used may never be proven/known.
- Editorially Yours is credited only on contents listing on front cover. This is a series of not titled essays.
- Science Fiction Cameos No. 11: Archimedes is credited in contents section on front page as "The Editor". Since Vargo Statten is known as the editor, as shown in contents on front cover, this is a pseudonym of a pseudonym of John Russell Fearn.
- Personalities of Fandom: No. 7: Forrest J. Ackerman has author listed only in contents on front cover.
- Review of The Man with Absolute Motion is titled under section named "Harry Cohn's Book Review".
- Level-Headed-Spacemen Wanted title taken from illustration, signed "Don Allen '55" at right edge.
- Unsigned illustration, without title or captioning, of a rocket take-off sideways on page 126.