Claim: The Wizard of Venus was first published in the 1964 Tales of Three Planets, a posthumous collection of short stories by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, 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". Tales of Three Planets is a posthumous collection of short stories by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, with an introduction by Richard A. Lupoff and illustrations by Roy G. Krenkel. Afterwards it appeared in the collection The Wizard of Venus (Ace Books, August 1970).