Scientifantasy

Joe Krucher cover for Scientifantasy 3, Spring 1949.

A beautifully illustrated, saddle-stapled fanzine published by teenagers Bill Kroll and John Grossman of Des Moines, IA, in 1948 and 1949.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
V1.1	Fall 1948	31	Contributors were David H. Keller, Joe Kennedy (“Hunting Grulzaks...”), K. Martin Carlson, Arthur H. Rapp, Thomas H. Carter, Albert Toth, Frank Dietz and the editors, with art by Ralph Rayburn Phillips, Howard Miller, Kroll and Grossman.
2	Winter 1949	32	Cover by Howard Miller. Planographed. “...sported 2 fiction pieces, 2 articles, a book review, 3 poems, 3 depart­ments, 25 illustrations and one (1) comic strip which we assume has its readers. Ex­tremely well laid out, the fanzine is worth your investigation.” —Bob Tucker, Bloomington News Letter, June 1949.
3	Spring 1949	32	Cover by Joe Krucher. Includes Hannes Bok material.
4	Summer 1949	32	Cover by William Kroll.

• Scientifantasy online at fanac.org.
• Listing at Fiction Mags.

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Publication

1948—1949

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