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LESSER IS BACK!

Sirs:
I'll bet you wonder why I didn't drop you a line in over half a year. Well, it's this way. You see, one day I says to myself, says I, "If they're (you) going to cut and change letters the way they do, no real, truthful comments could get out.

But now there are two reasons why I'm banging the old Leys again. One: I like you too much to keep away: and to miss your ed notes is just plain torture. Two: Amazing has improved so much (on the level) lately, that I can't help but write.

Now you are going to be handed a list of the ten best stories thus far this year.

1. "Planet of Doomed Men." This one, by Williams, hails from away back in frosty January. And it's the kind of story I go for. You know, a doomed race, and its last death throes.

2. "The Return of Hawk Carse." Gilmore came back with a bang; and a bang-up good story. More power!

3. "Disciples of Destiny." Naturally, Wilcox. I guess it was his unique way of writing, veiled under a fine plot that won this spot for your second best author. (My opinion.) Binder is your best.

4. "Adam Link Saves the World." Sure here be is, Binder! And am I glad he quit the comics and is back to stay. I can't wait for "After An Age." Puh-leeeeeze, as soon as possible. Poor Lesser willllll die if he doesn't see a full-lengther by bis favorite.

5. "The Crystal Planetoids," by Coblentz, the old master, is another of the type I go for. The world wrecker theme. Ed Hamilton's old line, eh?

6. "Gods of the Jungle." Fine and dandy, plus. But Bond can do better. This was strictly adventure, though of a most enjoyable type. Sure, it was good.

7. "Treasure on Thunder Moon," by Hamilton. Exact comment as last. Ed can do better.

8. "Time Will Tell," by Emil Petaja (?). Well, well, a short taking eighth honors. What is the world, and more specifically, science-fiction, coming to?

9. "Mystery of the Blue God," by Bates takes this spot. It was a grand yarn, with one pitfall, didn't move fast enough.

10. "The Immortality of Alan Whidden," just a darn good time tale by that master all time tales, Ralph Milne Farley.

Some suggestions: Keep up full lengthers, no serials, by such men as Wilcox and Binder. Sure, even run them up to seventy-five thousand words.

Ned Hadley is the best artist on your current staff. One comment that I must get through about Fantastic Adventures. Don Wilcox's "Eagle