From: Steve Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: [rehfans] Amazon.co.uk Sword of South London
> Actually, Fantastic Universe published the pastiches as deCamp wrote them:
> Oct. 1955: "Hawks over Shem" by Howard & de Camp
> Dec. 1955: "Conan, Man of Destiny" by Howard and de Camp
> April 1956: "The Blood-Stained God" by Howard & de Camp
> Dec. 1956: "Gods of the North" by Howard
>
> The first deCamp pastiche was FANTASY FICTION MAGAZINE, March 1953's
> version of "The Black Stranger"/"Treasure of Tranicos" if I'm not
mistaken.
>
> So if they were asking Moorcock for Conan at the time they were folding
> they had an audience from the Howard/de Camp stuff that had already run.
Yes, absolutely correct Steve. Usually de Camp, I assume with permission
from Greenberg, tried to sell the story first to a mag before it went into
the Gnome books. This not only tested the market but allowed de Camp some
extra income during a period when living as a writer was not the best. The
main point was however, that Moorcock was later than de Camp. I'm not sure
how Moorcock was introduced to Conan but probably through the same Gnome
series de Camp worked on. Whether or not he saw any of the above mags in the
UK I don't know.
Scotty
