Vargo Statten Science Fiction Magazine

Vargo Statten Science Fiction Magazine (later Vargo Statten British Science Fiction Magazine, The British Science Fiction Magazine, and The British Space Fiction Magazine) was a UK prozine named for a penname of John Russell Fearn’s. It published nineteen issues between 1954 and 1956.

The first seven issues were edited by Alistair Paterson, and the remainder by John Russell Fearn.

The magazine was priced at 1/6 (one shilling and six pence) throughout its run. It was initially pulp-sized and 64 pages long, but changed to digest-size at 128 pages with the May 1954 issue, and then to a paperback size, also at 128 pages, from the February 1955 issue onwards.

Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

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Publication

1954—1956

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