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The late 1940s and early 1050s saw the rapid decline of the old pulp magazines. Formerly the largest outlet by far for short fiction, these cheaply produced magazines suffered from the paper shortages of the Second World War era becoming increasingly more expensive to produce. Many publishers began either to close their doors outright or started phasing out the pulp publications in favor of the mass market paperback or “pocketbook”.
Toward the end of the pulp era a few new publications were produced that straddled the line between the two forms. One favorite of these is the Avon Fantasy Reader. Published between 1947 and 1952 the Avon Fantasy Reader was created by Donald A. Wollheim (who later founded DAW Books) and consisted mostly of reprinted work although Wollheim did include new pieces on occasion.
Like the pulp magazines of the time the Avon Fantasy Readers were produced using cheap newsprint, thin wrappers, stapled bindings and were formatted in the smaller “digest” size that was adopted by the pulp publications to cut costs.
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LAST ISSUE 1952
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