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N.B. This magazine is a file copy from Harlan Ellison’s collection. In the late 1990s, Susan Ellison gathered surplus issues of magazines to which Harlan had contributed, bagged them with certificates signed by Harlan and bearing the seal of his library, and put them aside intending to offer them in a future issue of the Rabbit Hole. Twenty years later, while working on the Harlan Ellison Books Preservation Project, editor Jason Davis discovered the forgotten stockpile and reminded the Ellisons of its existence.
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This August 1960 issue of Rogue features the first appearance of Harlan’s story, “Final Shtick” (photo illustration by Michael McGuire). It also contains the non-fiction pieces: “Rogue Notes,” “Rogue About Town – Bill of Fare, USA,” record reviews (“Portrait in Jazz” – The Bill Evans Trio, “Out of the Blue” – Oscar Brand, “On the Beach” – Hollywood Themes, “The Mastersounds” and “Traditional Blues” – Brownie McGhee), “Lovelies of Libation,” “A Modern Mona Lisa,” “Killer Diller,” “Mathematician, Slightly Mad,” “Gambol With the Artsy Set,”and the Ellison-edited “Bruce Here – In the Beginning.” (Thanks to Tim Richmond’s FINGERPRINTS ON THE SKY for IDing the Ellison pieces.)
Also features “The Handler” by Damon Knight.
The magazine comes with a HERC certificate signed by Harlan on 8 May 1998.