Savoy History: Weird Fantasy 1

Weird Fantasy 1 (OUT OF PRINT)

Editors: David Britton & John Muir

Publisher: David Britton

1969

B&W Illustrated

297mm x 210mm

Soft cover

32pp

The editorial lists Michael Moorcock, Mervyn Peake, HP Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Alan Garner, Henry Treece, William Hope Hodgson and David Lindsay—and can be seen as a blueprint for the start of Savoy six years later. As the Millennium turns, Savoy commences publishing Hodgson and Lindsay. It has taken 30 years to achieve, but Savoy has published all nearly all these people!

The high spot of Weird Fantasy #1 is the first printing of Ken Reid's banned Dare-A-Day Davy 'Frankenstein' strip. Too gruesome for its intended publication in the Odham's Press comic, Wham!, the strip arrived on the editors' desk courtesy of Steve Moore (then an editor for IPC Magazines). We've reproduced this delightful piece of grotesquery for your delectation in the Pictures section.

Cover: Jerry Cornelius & Frank Zappa by David Britton.

Left: The Metal Monster by James Cawthorn

Contents:

Fiction:

Ramsey Campbell—'The Face in the Desert'

Non-fiction:

Michael Moorcock—'The Secret Life of Elric of Melniboné'
John Muir—'Ken Reid'

Art:

Moy
James Cawthorn—'Art by Jim Cawthorn' (portfolio):
- Cover art for 'Eldritch Dream-Quest' magazine #3
- Cover art for 'Ergo-Ego' magazine
- Unpublished sketches for 'Amra' magazine
- From Abraham Merrit's 'The Metal Monster'
David Britton—'Variations on Ken Reid'
Ken Reid—'Frankenstein (The Banned Strip)' from 'Dare-A-Day Davy'
David Griffiths—back cover

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