The PASSING SHOW

   UK large-format (14" x 10" (36cm x 26cm) weekly magazine, 26 Mar 1932-25 Feb 1939. It featured articles, short stories, serials and cartoons. Beginning with the serializations of Pirates of Venus (1933; 1934) and Lost on Venus (1933-4; 1935) by Edgar Rice BURROUGHS (both reprinted from The ARGOSY), TPS became the UK's most regular periodical source of sf in the 1930s, remaining so until TALES OF WONDER and FANTASY started up. Several short fantasy stories by Lord DUNSANY and others and a series ofarticles by Ray CUMMINGS, The World of Tomorrow (1936), appeared in TPS over the next 5 years together with 11 other serials, notably Warwick DEEPING's "The Madness of Professor Pye" (1934), Edwin BALMER's and PhilipWYLIE's When Worlds Collide (1934-5; being a reprint of When Worlds Collide (1933) and After Worlds Collide (1934)), Wynant Davis Hubbard's The Thousandth Frog (1935; 1935), John Beynon's (John WYNDHAM) Planet Plane (1936 as "Stowaway to Mars"; 1936; vt cut as "The Space Machine", 1937 Modern Wonder; rev vt Stowaway to Mars 1953) and The Secret People (1935; 1935), and W. Douglas NEWTON's "The Devil Comes Aboard" (1938; vt Savaran and the Great Sand 1939).TPS later became The Illustrated and focused its attention on WWII, though sf still made an occasional appearance.

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