Forum.
The Magazine Where You Can Have Your Say -- No other Magazine Like It / If You Have Anything To Say, Here Is Where You Can Say It.
Other titles: Ray Palmer's Forum
1965—1977 Semimonthly, then monthly, then quarterly
Mundelein, IL / Amherst, WI.
Editor: Ray Palmer.
Publisher: Palmer Publications.
Succeeds: The Time Traveller (1932-1933); Science Fiction Digest (1933); Amazing Stories (1938-1949); Fantastic Adventures (1939-1949); Imagination (1950); Fate (1949-1988) Palmer sold his interest in Fate in 1953 to Curtis Fuller in order to start this journal, and Fuller sold that magazine in 1988); Mystic Magazine (1953-1956); Search Magazine (Mystic Magazine renamed, October 1956-1977?); Other Worlds Science Stories (1949-1957); Science Stories (1953-1954); Universe Science Fiction (1953-1955); Flying Saucers from Other Worlds 1957-1958) ->Flying Saucers Magazine of Space Conquest (1958-1976); Space World (1960-1977, Palmer acquired in 1963); The Hidden World Science Fiction Magazine (1961-1964)
Succeeded by: Ray Palmer's News Letter (1974-1975), and then merged into Search 1977
1/1, November1965-1977. $3.00 a year, 32 pp. (increased to 64 pp. in 1977 with the change to a quarterly format).

It was merged into Search after Palmer's death. The journal absorbed Palmer's News Letter in March 1975. This was yet another publication by Raymond A. Palmer (1910-1977), and consisted almost entirely of his editorials and letters from readers. He said he published this because readers of his other magazines always wrote in to say that "their favorite sections of his magazines were the editorials and the readers' letters with his answers to letters." The journal was more personal and informal than his other publications, much like a contemporary blog, and more outspoken on both sex and politics. In the early 1950s, Palmer's journals had brought him to the attention of the FBI for the left-wing slant of some articles, but by the 1960s his touch of paranoia at the doings of the deros or the Establishment led him to libertarianism and an openness to conspiracy theories, which he broached in articles on the Bilderbergers, Kennedy's assassination, etc. In 1968 he backed George Wallace for president. In its later issues the journal resorted to reprinting excerpts from the likes of Eusebe Saverte, Joseph Ennemoser, Cotton Mather, J.R. Francis, Moses Hull, and others.

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