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In November 1955, Ziff-Davis hired an assistant, Cele Goldsmith, who began by helping with two new magazines under development, Dream World and Pen Pals. She also read the slush piles for all the magazines, and was quickly given more responsibility. In 1957 she was made managing editor of both Amazing and Fantastic, doing the administrative chores and reading unsolicited manuscripts; and at the end of 1958 she became editor, replacing Fairman, who left to edit Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.[12][1] Goldsmith (who became Cele Lalli when she married in 1964) stayed as editor for six and a half years.[1]
Issues of Fantastic from 1961 to 1970, identifying volume and issue numbers, and indicating editors: in sequence, Cele Goldsmith (Lalli), Joseph Ross, Harry Harrison, Barry Malzberg, and Ted White
Circulation dropped for both Amazing and Fantastic; in 1964 Fantastic had a paid circulation of only 27,000.[13] In 1965 Sol Cohen, who at that time was Galaxy's publisher, set up his own publishing company, Ultimate Publishing, and bought both Amazing and Fantastic from Ziff-Davis.[1][notes 1] Cohen had decided to make the magazines as profitable as possible by filling them only with reprints. This was possible because Ziff-Davis had acquired second serial rights for all stories they had published, and since Cohen had bought the backfile of stories he was able to reprint them using these rights.[1][15] Using reprints in this way saved Cohen about $8,000 a year between the two magazines.[15] Lalli decided that she did not want to work for Cohen, and stayed with Ziff-Davis. Her last issue was June 1965. Cohen replaced Lalli with Joseph Wrzos, who used the name "Joseph Ross" on the magazines.[1][13] Cohen had met Wrzos at the Galaxy offices not long before; Wrzos was teaching English full-time, but had worked for Gnome Press as an assistant editor in 1953–1954.[13]boat charter italy
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