24) Bill Wesley [Any info on him? On top left of first page is: Otis W. >Beal, Jr. (The agent?)]
łBeyond the Snake Planet˛
Science Fiction Stories
July, 1959
40 pages
Six in addition to the one you have: "The Coffin Ship", 1/60 SCIENCE
FICTION; "Crash Program", 12/58 FUTURE; "Disjecta Membra", 4/60
FUTURE; "The Enormous Diamond", 6/59 SUPER SCIENCE; "The Palindromic
Blonde", 2/60 FUTURE; and "The Primus Curse", 5/54 PLANET. Beal may
very well have been his agent, since I don't find a listing for that
name as a writer.
His actual name was Otis Wesley Beal. Bill Wesley was his pseudonym. My mother dated him in the mid 1950s! I was like 11 years old, and it broke my heart when they broke up. He had a hobby of making telescopes. Here is a link, and also a pdf of one of
his stories (which I remember reading way beck then):
http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/d/d5900.htm#A211132
• WESLEY, BILL; pseudonym of O. Wesley Beal, (fl. 1950s-1960s) (chron.)
? * Beyond the Snake Planet, (nv) Science Fiction Stories Jul 1959
? * The Coffin Ship, (ss) Science Fiction Stories Jan 1960
? * Crash Program, (nv) Future Science Fiction Dec 1958
? Future Science Fiction (UK) #7 1959
? * Disjecta Membra, (ss) Future Science Fiction Apr 1960
? * The Enormous Diamond, (nv) Super-Science Fiction Jun 1959
? * The Palindromic Blonde, (ss) Future Science Fiction Feb 1960
? * The Primus Curse, (ss) Planet Stories May 1954
https://www.radioarchives.com/Planet_Stories_eBook_May_1954_p/re815.htm
Best,
Allan McCollum
allanmcnyc@aol.com
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