Weird Tales turned seventy in the spring of 1993. Fortunately there was still a magazine in print. Darrell Schweitzer was the editor of whole issue number 306. The cover artist was Nicholas Jainschigg. There isn't any mention of an anniversary on the cover, and I don't know whether there is any anniversary content inside. But Weird Tales had reached threescore and ten years, which is what is allotted us. There were two more issues (Summer 1993 and Spring 1994), then Weird Tales came to an end again.
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The magazine that never dies came back in its Summer issue of 1998. Darrell Schweitzer and George H. Scithers were the editors. Jason Van Hollander was the cover artist. But again, there isn't anything on the cover about an anniversary, and I don't know whether there was anything inside.
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As far as I can tell, there's no mention of the anniversary in the Spring 1993 issue. The Summer 1998 issue does say "Welcome, just in time for our 75th anniversary" but there seems to be no other mention of the anniversary.
ReplyDeleteThe magazine does continue between v54n03 (Spr-94) and v55n01 (Sum-98) as Worlds of Fantasy & Horror, of course, carrying through the whole number when they can start calling themselves Weird Tales again.
ReplyDeleteAs Phil does on his website, I count those issues as part of the ongoing Weird Tales revival magazine.
Somewhat unrelated, but looking at my WT spreadsheet, I see that this was also the period when the Sci-Fi Channel published a promotional magazine called Weird Tales, using the traditional Weird Tales logo. This had no fiction content however and I think they were just unaware that they would be stepping on any toes. Just one issue, circa March 1997, I believe.
ReplyDeleteAfter re-examining my hardcopy, Satellite TV Europe rather than the Sci-Fi Channel published the March 1997 fake Weird Tales.
DeleteHi, Phil and Mike,
ReplyDeleteI have written a new article that will be posted the day after tomorrow. It will include your contributions. Thanks to you both.
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