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Publisher: Richard S. Shaver.
Publication Date: 1948.
Format: stapled magazine.
Size: 6 x 9 inches.
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Virgil Finlay contributed two covers, i.e. volume II, number 3, 1948 and volume II, number 4, 1948, and full-page interior illustrations to volume II, number 2, 1948, and volume II, number 3, 1948. H.W. MacCauley's color painting of "Centaur" was first used as the black and white cover of Volume I, number 2 of "The Shaver Mystery" in 1947.
Richard Shaver created a mythology of a hidden past of the "hollow earth" with a lost Atlantis-like civilization Lemuria. "The Shaver Mystery Magazine" was devoted to discussions and investigations of Shaver's claims of a factual basis for his stories. Shaver and his wife produced the amateur magazine irregularly for some years.
In total eight issues appeared of "The Shaver Magazine". The first four issues were published by "The Shaver Mystery Club", Chicago, Illinois. The next two issues were published by "Richard S. Shaver", McHenry, Illinois. The last two issues were published by "The Aldebaran Press".
The interior illustration is a Virgil Finlay drawing for "The New Adam" by Stanley G. Weinbaum (1943). It is attributed here to volume II, number 2 of the "The Shaver Mystery" based on the contents listing of that issue.
