Fantasy, Number 1

Overview:

• Title: Fantasy, Number 1
• Author: T. Stanhope Sprigg
• Year: 1938
• Publisher: George Newnes
• Price: 1/-
• Pages: 132
• Binding: pulp
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Title Reference: Menace of the Metal-Men
• Notes:
  • No 1.
  • Subtitled "Thrilling Science Fiction" on the cover and "A Magazine of Thrilling Science-Fiction" on the contents page.
  • Contents page and spine state "1938" with no month given.
  • Page numbers run 1-128.
  • Trimmed edges.
  • The Editor is not credited.
  • Cover art is credited to "S. R. Drigin"; the artwork is signed "S. Drigin."
  • Interior art is not credited by individual story, but the contents page states "Illustrations by S. R. Drigin, G. Blow, R. H. Evens and R. Knott."
  • Story art for "Menace of the Metal-Men" on page 19 is signed "S. Drigin"; that on pages 2-3 shows no signature.
  • Story art for "Leashed Lightning" on page 37 is signed "Geo W Blow."
  • Story art for "Shadow-Man" on page 49 shows no signature.
  • Artwork for "By Rocket-Ship to the Planets" on page 53 shows no signature.
  • Story art for "The Red Magician" on pages 58-59 and 71 shows no signature.
  • Story art for "Son of Space" on page 87 is signed "B."
  • Story art for "Beyond the Screen" on pages 92-93 and 108-109 shows no signature.
  • "The Fact Behind the Fantasy: Weather Control by Electricity" is an extract from a letter by Sir Ambrose Fleming in the Daily Telegraph, 27 June 1938.
  • "Stranger Than Fiction" consists of several current news items.
  • "—And Now Read This" includes two short articles: "Invisible Man" (extracted from To-Day, 28 May 1938) and "Weapons of War" (from a recent broadcast speech by Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister of Defence).
  • "Contributors to 'Fantasy'" includes short profiles of most of the authors in this issue (omitting only Sibson).