Fantasy, Number 2

Overview:

  • Title: Fantasy, Number 2
  • Author: T. Stanhope Sprigg
  • Year: 1939
  • Publisher: George Newnes
  • Price: 1/-
  • Pages: 132
  • Binding: pulp
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Title Reference: Valley of Doom
  • Notes:
    • No 2.
    • Subtitled "Thrilling Science Fiction" on the cover and "A Magazine of Thrilling Science-Fiction" on the contents page.
    • Contents page and spine state "1939" 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, and H. E. Turner."
    • Story art for "Winged Terror" on page 17 is signed "S. Drigin"; that on pages 2-3 shows no signature.
    • Story art for "Valley of Doom" on page 31 is signed "GWB."
    • Story art for "People of the Deep" on page 43 is signed "S.D."
    • Artwork for "Terminal in Space" on page 53 is signed "Turner." A small unsigned diagram also appears on page 57.
    • Story art for "The Trojan Beam" on pages 60-61 and 67 is signed "S. Drigin."
    • Story art for "Vampire from the Void" on page 79 is signed "GWB."
    • Story art for "Discovery of Nil" on page 93 is signed "Geo W Blow." The story title is given thus at thet start of the story and on the page headers, but as "The Discovery of Nil" on the contents page.
    • Story art for "Climatica" on page 111 is signed "S. Drigin"; that on page 100 shows no signature.
    • "What Is Your Theory?" solicits reader theories on the ending of "Winged Terror," offering half a guinea to the winning entry.
    • "But This Is Fact—: A Ship That Disappeared" is an extract from the Evening Standard, 12 May 1938.
    • "The Question Space-Ships May Answer: Is There Life on the Planets?" is from a broadcast address by Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, on 04 February 1939.
    • "Science Marches On" consists of several current news items.
    • "Stranger Than Fiction" presents more current news items.
    • "Contributors to 'Fantasy'" includes short profiles of most of the authors in this issue (omitting only Hendred and Burton).
    • "The Fact Behind the Fantasy" includes two short articles: "Harnessing the Tides" (Daily Telegraph, 18 January 1939) and "Fog Dispersal" (Evening Standard, 21 January 1939).
    • "Fantasy's Critical Commentary" is a letters column.