Claim: The Wizard of Venus was first published in the 1964 Burroughs collection Tales of Three Planets and appeared in the collection the Wizard of Venus (Ace Books, August 1970),
Evidence: "The Wizard of Venus" was first published in the 1964 Burroughs collection Tales of Three Planets together with the unrelated tales "The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw", "Beyond the Farthest Star" and "Tangor Returns". Afterwards it appeared in the collection The Wizard of Venus (Ace Books, August 1970).