TALES OF WONDER

   UK magazine, PULP-MAGAZINE size. 16 issues [Summer] 1937-Spring 1942, quarterly to 1940, thereafter slightly irregular, numbered consecutively, \#1 undated. Published by World's Work, London; ed Walter GILLINGS.TOW,though preceded by SCOOPS (1934), the sf BOYS' PAPER, was the first adult UK sf magazine. It used both original UK and reprinted US material, andprospered until wartime paper restrictions and the drafting of the editor caused its demise. William F. TEMPLE and Frank Edward ARNOLD were among the authors who made their debuts in TOW, as, with nonfiction, was Arthur C. CLARKE. Stories included "Sleepers of Mars" (1938) by John Beynon -title story of Sleepers of Mars (coll 1973) as by John WYNDHAM-and, as reprints, "The Mad Planet" (1920; 1939) by Murray LEINSTER and "City of the Singing Flame" (1931; 1940) by Clark Ashton SMITH. Other writers were John Russell FEARN, Benson HERBERT, Festus PRAGNELL and Eric Frank RUSSELL.

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