Worlds of If, January-February 1972

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Overview:

Title: Worlds of If, January-February 1972
Author: Ejler Jakobsson
Year: 1972
Publisher: UPD Publishing Corporation
Price: $0.75
Pages: 180
Binding: digest
Type: MAGAZINE
Title Reference: The Cast-Iron Rat
Notes: Vol. 21, No. 3, Issue 158.
February listed on the cover and spine but January-February on the table of contents.
Cover suggested by "Patterns of Chaos" as noted on the Contents/copyright page.
UK price £0.25, this issue was distributed in both US and UK.
Note by editors on page 175 noting that the story "To Kill a Venusian" (Sept.-Oct. 1971) was plagiarized. The original story was called "Nine-Finger Jack" by Anthony Boucher and published in F&SF, August 1952.
Average paid circulation for 1971: 37,974.
A notice on page 176 states that "a small number of IF and GALAXY date September-October 1971 or November-December 1971, were placed on sale with pages missing or repeated." The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive, see web page for link.