AustLit

Australian pulp magazine, which ran from 1952 until at least 1953. According to Sean McMullen, Action Monthly was the successor to Thrills Incorporated. Morgan Wallace, in his Gallery to Science Fiction, Fantasy, Weird & Occult, suggests that the minimal science-fiction content in Action Monthly was due to the demise of Thrills Incorporated: prior to the closure of the latter, Action Monthly had published every genre but science fiction. However, a single science-fiction story appeared in each of issues 10, 11, and 12, and may have been excess content originally intended for Thrills Incorporated. Among these stories was one by Norma Hemming, Australia's first significant female science-fiction writer (and former extensive contributor to Thrills Incorporated): her short story 'You Can't Stop a Spaceman' appeared in issue 12 (1953).

Further Reference

McMullen, Sean. 'Sean McMullen's Australian Content: Australian SF Art Turns Fifty.' Eidolon 7 (January 1992), pp.45-55.

http://www.eidolon.net/old_site/issue_07/07_sean.htm (Sighted: 22/7/2011)

McMullen, Sean. 'Sean McMullen's Australian Content: From Science Fantasy to Galileo'. Eidolon 10 (October 1992), pp.34-39.

http://www.eidolon.net/old_site/issue_10/10_sean.htm (Sighted: 22/7/2011)

Wallace, Morgan A. The Gallery to Science Fiction, Fantasy, Weird & Occult as published by the British, Australians and Canadians From the 1930s-1966 as Paperbacks, Digests, Pamphlets, Pulps, and Magazines. Online.

http://www.darkfantasy.org/spectre//ImageGuide.html (Sighted: 22/7/2011)