I am under the impression that, eventually, occasional hb (in
the course of everything else) writer and Howard Browne
editorial protege/successor (and eventual EQMM managing
editor) Paul Fairman was buying the entire contents of
FANTASTIC and AMAZING issue after issue from the quartet of
Milton
"Stephen Marlowe" Lesser, Harlan Ellison, Randall Garrett and
Robert Silverberg (notably, none innocent of CF, and not a
little hb writing between them). Glad you could so elegantly
have your own status affirmed, Bill! TM
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abc@wt.net] I've enjoyed all the comments on Stephen
Marlowe. He's one of my heroes, and the thrill of the
Monterey Bouchercon, for me, was getting to sign at the table
next to him. I have a photo of me and him that my wife took.
Back in the '50s, he was everywhere in the SF digests of the
second rank, particularly Imagination, Imaginative Tales, and
Amazing Stories. I've been buying a lot of those on eBay (and
got sniped on one today by our own Bob Toomey), and sometimes
Marlowe wrote entire issues under various names. His output
in those days was amazing, rivaling that of Robert
Silverberg. I have to agree with Richard Moore that his
Chester Drum novels probably aren't the best of Gold Medal,
but they're certainly entertaining, and I liked some of the
later ones (with the women's names in the titles) even better
than the earlier ones. I just finished reading the Ace
reprint of Violence is Golden (not a Drum novel), and the
hero gets knocked out twice within the first hundred pages.
They don't write 'em like that any more.
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