Fantastic (magazine)
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Fantastic was an American digest-size fantasy and science fiction magazine, published from 1952 to 1980. It was founded by the publishing company Ziff Davis as a fantasy companion to Amazing Stories.
Cover of the October 1961 issue, by Alex Schomburg
Cover of first issue; artwork by Barye Phillips and Leo Summers.
The second wish fulfilment cover, for October 1956, by Ed Valigursky
The main variations in title fonts. Issues shown are Summer 1952, September–October 1953, January 1961, January 1964, June 1971, October 1978, and April 1979: each is the first issue which used each style shown.
Cele Goldsmith Lalli
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Cele Goldsmith Lalli was an American editor. She was the editor of Amazing Stories from 1959 to 1965, Fantastic from 1958 to 1965, and later the Editor-in-Chief of Modern Bride magazine.
Fantastic (magazine)
…result and the magazine generally ran poorer-quality fiction in the mid-1950s, under Browne and his successor, Paul W. Fairman. At the end of the 1950s, Cele Goldsmith took over as editor of both Fantastic and Amazing Stories, and quickly invigorated the magazines, bringing in many new writers and making them, in the…
Michael and Cele Goldsmith Lalli, 1980s