Art by Emsh

Donald A Wollheim – Part 2: 1948-1988

If you missed the last part…

Wollheim continued to edit Pulps and to supply stories when needed. When the Pulps died, he turned to writing Science Fiction novels for the Winston juvenile series and later others as David Grinnell. He wrote the Mike Mars series under his own name. He didn’t give up entirely on magazines, publishing the Avon Fantasy Reader in the 1940s and 50s. This small publication reprinted heavily from his favorite Pulps like Weird Tales. He experimented at Avon with 10 Fantasy Story (one issue) and Out of This World Adventures (half comic, half Pulp) (two issues). He published a long list of SF anthologies including Adventures in the Far Future (1954), Adventures on Other Planets (1955), The Earth in Peril (1957), Men On the Moon (1958), and  Swordsmen in the Sky (1964).

In 1965, he exploded Fantasy publishing by releasing an unauthorized paperback of The Lord of the Rings. As top SF editor at ACE Books, he brought Edgar Rice Burroughs into the second half of the century. He took his influential status as an editor of SF and Fantasy and created his own paperback company, DAW Books in 1971. Many of the writers who published with Wollheim at ACE went over to DAW, including Andre Norton, C. J. Cherryh, Michael Moorcock, A. E. van Vogt, Lin Carter, E. C. Tubb and many others.

1948

Art by Russell Swanson

“Keller and the Avon Fantasy Reader” (Fanomena, March 1948)

1950

Artist Unknown

“Pallas Rebellion” (Out of This World Adventures, July 1950) as W. Malcolm White

Art by George Salter

“Top Secret”(F&SF, Fall 1950) as David Grinnell

Artist Unknown

“The Space Lens” (reprinted in Fantastic Story Quarterly, Fall 1950) as Millard Verne Gordon

Art by Lawrence

“Mimic” (reprinted in Fantastic Novels, September 1950)

Art by James Bama

“War of the Marsh-Men” (Out of This World Adventures, December 1950) as W. Malcolm White

1951

Artist Unknown

“Private World” (10 Story Fantasy, Spring 1951) as Martin Pearson

Art by George Salter

“Extending the Holdings” (F&SF, April 1951) as David Grinnell

Art by George Salter

“The Rag Thing” (F&SF, October 1951) as David Grinnell

1952

“Colt Cash Cache”

Artist Unknown

“Signpost in the Sky” (Science Fiction Quarterly, November 1952) as W. Malcolm White

Art by Emsh

“Malice Aforethought” (F&SF, November 1952) as David Grinnell

1953

Art by Alex Schomberg

“The Mask of Demeter” (F&SF, January 1953) with C. M. Kornbluth as Cecil Corwin and Martin Pearson

Art by W. E. Terry

“Disguise” (Other Worlds, February 1953)

Art by Milton Luros

“Shoo, Fly!” (Science Fiction Quarterly, February 1953) as W. Malcolm White

Artist Unknown probably Milton Luros

“Go Fast on Interplane” (Dynamic Science Fiction, June 1953) with C. M. Kornbluth as Wallace Baird Halleck

Artist Unknown

“Road to Rome” (Future Science Fiction, July 1953) as David Grinnell

Art by Alex Schomberg

“No Greater Glory” (Dynamic Science Fiction, August 1953) as W. Malcolm White

Artist Unknown

“Asteroid 745: Mauritia” (Orbit #1, September 1953) as Martin Pearson

Artist Unknown

“Ganymede House” (Orbit #1, September 1953) as David Grinnell

Art by Paul Orban

“The Poetess and the 21 Grey-Haired Cadavers” (Dynamic Science Fiction, October 1953) as W. Malcolm White

1954

Art by Alex Schomberg

The Secret of Saturn’s Rings

Art by Paul Orban

“Last Stand of a Space Grenadier” (Science Fiction Quarterly, February 1954) as David Grinnell

Art by Kirburger

“The Lysenko Maze” (reprinted in F&SF, July 1954) as David Grinnell

1955

Art by Alex Schomberg

The Secret of the Martian Moons

1956

Art by Virgil Finlay

One Against the Moon

1957

Art by Emsh

Across Time as David Grinnell

Artist Unknown

“Observation Platform” (Saturn, October 1957)

1958

Art by Ric Binkley

Edge of Time as David Grinnell

1959

Art by Emsh

The Martian Missile as David Grinnell

Art by James Heugh

The Secret of the Ninth Planet

1960

Art by Frank Kelly Freas

“This Year and No Other” (Science Fiction Stories, May 1960)

1961

Art by Emsh

Destiny’s Orbit as David Grinnell

Art by Albert Orbaan

Mike Mars: Astronaut

Art by Albert Orbaan

Mike Mars Flies the X-15

Art by Albert Orbaan

Mike Mars at Cape Canaveral

Art by Albert Orbaan

Mike Mars in Orbit

1962

Art by Albert Orbaan

Mike Mars Flies the Dyna-Soar

Art by Albert Orbaan

Mike Mars: South Pole Spaceman

1963

Art by Albert Orbaan

Mike Mars and the Mystery Satellite

Artist Unknown

“Give Her Hell” (Manhood v1 #4, 1963) as David Grinnell

“The Hook”

“Babylon: 70 M.” (Magazine of Horror, August 1963)

“Doorslammer” (Magazine of Horror, November 1963)

1964

Art by Albert Orbaan

Mike Mars Around the Moon

Art by Fred Wolters

“The Feminine Fraction” (Magazine of Horror, November 1964) as David Grinnell

1965

Artist Unknown

“The Garrison” (Magazine of Horror, April 1965)

1966

1967

Art by Michael M. Peters

Destination: Saturn as David Grinnell with Lin Carter

1969

Art by Bill HUghes

Two Dozen Dragon Eggs

Art by Virgil Finlay

“The Horror Out of Lovecraft” (Magazine of Horror, May 1969) as Donald Allen Wollheim

“An Advance Post in the War Between the Sexes”

“Santa Rides a Saucer”

“The Egg From Alpha Centauri”

“Web Sixty-Four”

1970

Art by John Schoenherr

To Venus! To Venus! as David Grinnell

“Miss McWhortle’s Weird” (The Arkham Collector, Summer 1970)

1971

Art by Johnny Bruck

Fortress of the Six Moons with Forrest J. Ackerman as K. H. Scheer

Art by Johnny Bruck

The Galactic Riddle with Forrest J. Ackerman as Clark Darlton

Art by Johnny Bruck

The Ghost of Gol with Forrest J. Ackerman as Kurt Mahr

“Letter to The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, November 1971”

1973

Art by Jerzy Osmolski

“The Rules of the Game” (New Writings in SF 22, April 1973)

1981

Art by D. Bruce Berry

“Great Gog’s Grave” (Fantasy Book, December 1981) with Forrest J. Ackerman

1982

Art by Michael Whelan

The Men from Ariel

“Ishkabab”

“The Lost Poe”

“Who’s There?”

1988

Art by Ann Laymon Chancellor

Up There and Other Strange Directions

Conclusion

Donald Allen Wollheim passed away on November 2, 1990 after a career that touched seven decades. DAW Books continues to publish paperback SF and Fantasy under DAW’s daughter, Elizabeth R. Wollheim and Sheila E. Gilbert.

 

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