Science Fantasy Correspondent

The Science Fantasy Correspondent was a science fiction zine published from 1936 to 1937. Its first three issues were edited by Willis Conover under that name, and then Corwin F. Stickney took over, publishing another three under the name Amateur Correspondent. It was traditionally printed, instead of using a mimeograph or hectograph like most other fanzines. Also unlike most other fanzines, The Amateur Correspondent printed advertisements and classified listings for non-fandom subjects.
Frank S. Bogert, an elderly printer who was friends with Conover and had helped finance the magazine, handled advertising for the first five issues before resigning due to illness.
== About ==
== Reviews ==
== Contents ==
==== Amateur Correspondent #1 (May-June 1937) ====
* Cover: H.P. Lovecraft illustration by Virgil Finlay.
* Editorial: "Metamorphosis" by Corwin F. Stickney (4-5)
* Article: "The Sage of College Street" by E. Hoffman Price (6-7)
* Article: "Notes on Writing Weird Fiction" by H.P. Lovecraft (7-10)
* Fiction: "The Jest of Tianne" by Robert F. Ennis (10-14)
* Poem: "The Spirits Mourn" by Willis Conover (15)
* Department: "Hit 'N' Run" (16-17)
** Letter: Harold F. Benson
** Letter: Joseph Hatch
** Letter: Sam Moskowitz
** Letter: J. Vernon Shea, Jr.
* Ads (18-22)
* Department: "Odds and Ends" (23; 27-28)
* Hobbies: "First Day Covers" by John C. Sidenius (24-25)
* Hobbies: "Those Stamps and Coins" by Jack E. Fry (26-27)
* Ads (27-32)
==== Amateur Correspondent #2 (September-October 1937) ====
* Cover: Burton C. Blanchard
* Editorial: "Progress" by Corwin F. Stickney (2-3)
* Fiction: "The Mysterious Stranger" by Earl and Otto Binder (Eando Binder) (4-5)
* Article: "Are We Advocates of Scientific Fiction?" by Sam Moskowitz (6-7)
* Fiction: "The Last Scoffer" by Burton C. Blanchard (7-9)
* Poem: "The Rood and the Vampire" by J. Francis Hatch (10)
* Article: "Disbelievers Ever" by R. W. Sherman (11)
* Fiction: "What Every Young Ghoul Should Know" by Robert Bloch (12-14)
* Fiction: "The Wrath of Zeus" by Sidney L. Birchby (14-15)
* Department: "Hit 'N' Run" (16-20)
** Letters: Seabury Quinn, Dick Wilson, Robert A. Madle, Richard Frank, Thomas A. Gardner, C.L. Moore, R.D. Swisher, Joseph C. Kempe, Norman O'Connor, Joseph Hatch, Joan Reynolds, William C. Peters, Norman F. Stanley, Claire P. Becke, Paul Morton
* Ads (21-24)
* Hobbies: "First Day Covers" by John C. Sidenius (25-26)
* Hobbies: "Those Stamps and Coins" by Jack E. Fry (26-28)
* Ads (29-30)
==== Amateur Correspondent #3 (November-December 1937) ====
* Cover: Burton C. Blanchard (illustrating W. I. Parks' From Forgotten Ages)
* Editorial: "Anniversary" by Corwin F. Stickney (2)
* Article: "A Warning on Collaboration" by Chester D. Cuthbert (3)
* Fiction: "From Forgotten Ages" pt. I by W. I. Parks (4-5, 14-16)
* Article: "Atmosphere in Weird Fiction" by Clark Ashton Smith (6-7, 25)
* Fiction: "The Waterfall" by Paul Hayward (8-9)
* Poem: "The Immortal" by Robert Sanders Shaw (9)
* Fiction: "The Sniper" by W. C. Peters (10-11)
* Fiction: "The Final Vision" by J. Francis Hatch (12-13)
* Department: "Hit 'N' Run" (17-21)
** Letters: Joseph Hatch, Jack Speer, Eric Frank Russell, James S. Avery, Norman F. Stanley, Burton C. Blanchard, Art Widner, Walter Sullivan
* Ads (22-26)
Category:1936 Zines
Category:1937 Zines
Category:Science Fiction Zines