Science Fiction Digest

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Monthly fanzine edited successively by Maurice Z. Ingher, Conrad Ruppert and Julius Schwartz. Later issues included Cosmos - The Serial Novel bound with it. It was published by Ruppert as by the Science Fiction Digest Company. This magazine originated as Science Fiction Digest in September 1932. After December, 1933, it continued under the name Fantasy Magazine.

It was reviewed in William Crawford and D. R. Welch's Science Fiction Bibliography, published in 1935:

Vol 1, No 1 dated September 1932. Regular monthly publication for two years—first twelve issues large size 8 x 11. The present size has been used since September 1933. Title changed to Fantasy Magazine January 1934. Conrad H. Ruppert and Julius Schwartz have been its editors and publishers.

The Science Fiction Digest is certainly the most valuable magazine for collectors. In its pages are indexes of science fiction in Electrical Experimenter, Science & Invention, Thrill Book, Argosy, All Story, and other Mumsey and Street & Smith publications. There are excellent biographies of many authors, including Edgar Rice Burroughs and A. Merritt; several original short stories, among them “The Scroll of Armageddon” by Arthur J. Burks, “The Drone” by A. Merritt, and “The Vortex World” by Raymond A. Palmer; and a reprint of Merritt’s “Woman of the Wood.”

Beginning July 1933 the famous Cosmos was published serially in supplement form, each installment written by a different author—such names as Ralph Milne Earley, Otis Adelbert Kline, David H. Keller.

All the early issues are out of print. Particularly high premiums have been placed on the Nov. 1933 number (When combination with The Time Traveller was effected); the April 1934 issue which contains Merritt’s installment of COSMOS; and the Anniversary Issue September 1934 featuring “The Drone.” What price these issues will eventually command, no one can prophesy.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	September 1932
2	October 1932
3	November 1932
4	December 1932
5	January 1933
6	February 1933	24
7	March 1933	24
8	April 1933		Conrad Ruppert takes over as editor.
9	May 1933
10	June 1933
11	July 1933		Start of "Cosmos" serial
12	August 1933	31
13	September 1933
14	October 1933
15	November 1933		Combined with The Time Traveller
16	December 1933		Final issue as Science Fiction Digest
17			Now Fantasy Magazine edited by Ruppert
18 V2.4	December 1933		Thish edited by Julius Schwartz
19 V2.5
20 V2.6	February 1934	24	Edited by Ruppert
21 V3.1	March 1934	32	"
22 V3.2	1934
23 V3.3	May 1934	32	Edited by Ruppert
24 V3.4	June 1934	32	Editor now Julius Schwartz
25 V4.1	September 1934	44
26 V4.2	October 1934	24
27 V4.3	December 1934	20
28 V4.4	February 1935	20
29	April 1935
30	May 1935
31 V5.1	June 1935	20
32 V5.2	July 1935	20
33 V5.3	August 1935	20
34 V5.4	September 1935	39
35 V6.1	January 1936	36
36 V6.2	March 1936	32
37 V6.3	June 1936	32
38	September 1936	56
39	January 1937	32

There may be some errors in the numbering of issues here. L. W. Currey lists issue #17 as Vol. 2, #5, appearing in January 1934, which is #19 above.

• Science Fiction Digest online at fanac.org.
• Fantasy Magazine online at fanac.org.

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Publication

1932—1937

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