Science Fiction Advertiser, Issue 28

Publisher:		Ron Smith, Glendale, CA, USA.
Cover:		Morris Scott Dolens.
Binding:		Staples.
Publication date:		Winter 1954.
Number of pages:		7¾ x 9¾ inches.
Size:		26 pages.
Format:		Soft cover.

Front cover by Morris Scott Dolens

Back cover with advertisement for a Nova Press portfolio

The front cover, "Exploring a Lunar Valley", is by Morris Scott Dollens.

The advertisement shows a drawing for A. Merritt's story "Creep, Shadow!" as it appeared in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, August 1942.

The portfolio contained 15 black & white drawings (not counting the cover illustration) and was titled "Virgil Finlay ... a Portfolio of Illustrations".

Contents:

• On Taking Science Fiction Seriously 5 by Reginald Bretnor.
• The Recent Books 15 Novels by Clarke, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Bradbury, Moore, de Camp, and Leiber.
• Collections by Sturgeon, Campbell, de Camp and Pratt, and Robert A. Heinlein.
• Anthologies edited by Mines and Bleiler and Dikty.
• Juveniles by Lesser and Latham.
• Non-Fiction by von Braun and Leslie and Adamski.

There is also a picture of L. Sprague DeCamp and Flether Pratt wearing Viking helmets.