FANTASTIC ADVENTURES (LEE FRANCIS; CHESTER S. GEIER & RICHARD S. SHAVER; ALEXANDER BLADE; H. B. HICKEY; BERKELEY LIVINSTON) — Fantastic Adventures: December, Dec. 1948

NY, Ziff Davis. 1948. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 10, No. 12. Edited by Ray Palmer. Cover art by Malcolm Smith for "Outlaws of Corpus" (novelette) by Lee Francis (unattributed house pseud.). Includes "Fountain of Change" (novelette) by Chester S. Geier & Richard S. Shaver; "Brainstorm" by Alexander Blade (unattributed house pseud.); "A Place Like Eden" by H. B. Hickey; "Gimme Finds the Gimmick" by Berkeley Livingston. Features: 'The Editor's Notebook"; "Trial by Torture" by Hilary Cowen; "The Widow's Ghost" by Carter T. Wainwright; "Druid Renaissance" by H. R. Stanton; "The Spectral Nun" by Sandy Miller; "The Devil Throws Stones" by Cal Webb; "The Magic Circle" by William Karney; "Early Wings" by Leslie Phelps; "The Corneal Lens" by Frances Yerxa; "Indian Funeral Customs" by Pete Bogg; "Final Royal Voyage" by Jon Barry; "Reader's Page"; "Nostradamus" by L. A. Burt; "Ugly As Sin" by J. R. Marks; "Rhino Rage" by A. Morris; "As Dumb as a Fax" by John Lane. Illustrations by Julian Krupa, Virgil Finlay, & Rod Ruth. Front cover soiled with nearly 4" tear from lower spine corner; creasing; foxing; tanning. Good+.