Contents and Reception
The first issue contained Charles F. Myers' novel Toffee, reprinted from the June 1950 issue of Fantastic Adventures, where it had been titled Shades of Toffee. The "Toffee" series, about an attractive woman who was a figment of imagination of the main character, Marc Pillsworth, also took up the entire second issue, which contained two "Toffee" novellas, "Toffee Takes a Trip" and "Toffee Haunts a Ghost", and no other fiction. Both stories were reprints that had been originally published in 1947 in Fantastic Adventures. The third issue included original fiction for the first time: Raymond E. Banks' novella "The Earthlight Commandos". Few original stories by well-known authors appeared, but it did print original fiction by Robert Bloch, Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg and Harlan Ellison. Silverberg in particular appeared frequently, and several issues contain multiple stories by him under a variety of pseudonyms and house names.
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