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The Wold Atlas (fanzine)
There are five issues of the fanzine The Wold Atlas (A Journal of Speculation). They were published by the "Wold Newton Meteoritics Society" in Grand Junction, CO., with Philip José Farmer as Honorary Chairman (in absentia). The editor of The Wold Atlas was Timothy J. Rutt. The fanzine contains original fiction and also articles about the Wold Newton Family.
For more information about Wold Newton see the websites on the page Links.


Vol.1 No.1, January 1977
14 pages - cover by Todd R. Rutt.
Contents:
  • Soapbox: "The World of Wold Newton" (editorial) by Timothy J. Rutt
  • "The Terrible Beekeeper - Part One" (novel) by Arn McConnell & Todd Rutt
  • "The Dynamics of the Brothers Moriarty" (article) by Timothy J. Rutt
    [Read it online]
  • "The Land That Maple White Found" (article) by Arn McConnell
    [Read it online]
  • ATLAS Reviews (reviewing several of PJF's books)
  • Meteor Writes (Letter Column, with a letter by PJF himself)
  • Trivia Quiz: The Avenger
  • Wo(r)ld At Large (news about a child raised by apes)


Todd R. Rutt
     

Vol.1 No.2, Spring 1977
16 pages - cover by Arn McConnell & Todd Rutt.
Contents:
  • Soapbox: "Second Coming" (editorial) by Timothy J. Rutt
  • "The Mysterious Case of the Carters" ["Or, How Hirohito Became Nick Carter's Aide"] (article) by Todd Rutt & Arn McConnell
  • "The Terrible Beekeeper - Part 2" (novel) by Arn McConnell & Todd Rutt
  • ATLAS Reviews
  • "Duck Savage - The Mallard of Bronze" (cartoon) by Todd Rutt & Timothy J. Rutt
  • "Caves, Gas, & The Great Transfer Theory" (article) by Todd Rutt & Arn McConnell
    [Read it online]
  • Meteor Writes (Letter Column)
  • Trivia Quiz: Mostly Movies


McConnell & Rutt
     

Vol.1 No.3, Fall 1977
16 pages - cover by Arn McConnell & Todd Rutt.
Contents:
  • Soapbox (editorial) by Timothy J. Rutt
  • "The First Doc Savage: The Apocryphal Life of Clark Savage, Sr." (article) by Timothy J. Rutt
    [Read it online]
  • "The Stalker in the Dark: Jack the Ripper & Wold Newton" (article) by Timothy J. Rutt
    [Read it online]
  • "The Terrible Beekeeper" (novel, part 3) by Arn McConnell & Todd Rutt
  • "Duck Savage - The Mallard of Bronze" (cartoon) by Todd Rutt & Timothy J. Rutt
  • Trivia Quiz: Nero Wolfe
  • "The Case of Commissioner James Gordon" (article) by Arn McConnell
    [Read it online]


McConnell & Rutt
     

Vol.1 No.4, Winter 1978
20 pages - cover by Arn McConnell & Todd Rutt.
Contents:
  • "KONG: His Life and Fall" (article) by Arn McConnell
    [Read it online]
  • "Champion of Catastrophe and Son of the East: A Short Genealogy of Victor von Doom" (article) by Scott Koeller
    [Read it online]
  • "The Terrible Beekeeper" (novel, part 4) by Arn McConnell & Todd Rutt
  • "Duck Savage - The Mallard of Bronze" (cartoon) by Todd Rutt & Timothy J. Rutt
  • Trivia Quiz: A Living Shadow, by Arn McConnell
  • Drawing of PJF at his typewriter surrounded by the Wold Atlas characters. Drawing by Rutt.


McConnell & Rutt
     

Vol.2 No.1, Fall 1978
20 pages - cover by Bruce Stuart Conklin.

Contents:
  • Newton's Laws: "This Strange Evolution" (editorial)
  • Oyez, Oyez (tidbits of information)
  • "Casting a Little Light Among the Shadows" (article) by Arn McConnell
    [Read it online]
  • "The Terrible Beekeeper!" (novel, part 5) by Arn McConnell & Todd Rutt
  • "Behind the Beekeeper: A Rationalization" (article) by Todd Rutt & Arn McConnell
  • "Duck Savage" (cartoon) by Todd Rutt & Timothy J. Rutt
  • Trivia Quiz: The Biographers
  • Next Issue
    [Promising an interview with PJF, but, alas, that issue has never been published.]


Bruce Stuart Conklin
     
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