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ASF - Astounding/Analog Science Fiction Science Fact Magazine

this page not yet finished - list of issues in stock is correct, but about 10-12 are in poorer condition than listed, and will be priced accordingly lower - and condition description corrected;

i've updated the page for stock bought in a small collection of prozines from a fan moving to a smaller house, brizzle way; the list of issues in stock is correct; prices given for copies where contents are listed are correct for the copy to which the listing is appended;
about a dozen of these (fair) whose contents are not yet given, as well as about a dozen of the earlier-listed (good-vg) issues are in poorer condition than that given, and will be priced accordingly lower - and condition description corrected, as i list their contents; about half a dozen are in better condition than i remembered, and their prices will be raised (slightly), when i list their contents.
now i have to sort out the back room's lighting circuit (the landlord still hasn't - and i suspect will not, anytime soon this century...); i fear the damage is under the flat roof - or under the ground floor, where the landlord's contractor casually looped the cabling c. 25' from the former back wall, to underneath the consumer unit - posh for fuse box - at the front.
and list the zines that've been waiting quietly on their shelves for over a decade, as well as those in their boxes here in the front, that've been waiting patiently for about as long...

Street & Smith published Digest Format Issues

Street & Smith were succeeded as owners by Conde Nast in February 1962. John W. Campbell, editor since 1937, convinced the new owners to try converting ASF to a much larger format magazine, part (the adverts) printed on more expensive slick-coated paper, but this incarnation failed to attract enough higher-rate advertising and lasted from March 1963 to March 1965 (inclusive) only, before being moved back to the digest format - albeit one printed on higher quality stock than formerly, comparable with that of the non-slick pages of the bedsheet-format issues.

Conde Nast published, Bedsheet Format semi-slick issues

Conde Nast published, Digest Format Issues

Ben Bova resigned as editor in 1978, becoming fiction editor of Omni magazine; his successor was Stan[ley] Schmidt.
Conde Nast sold ASF to Davis Publications, who'd successfully launched & run Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, in 1979, changing it to a lunar monthly schedule - hence the addition of the day to the month & year identifying the issue in that year.

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