Avon published three related magazines in the late 1940s and early 1950s, titled Avon Fantasy Reader, Avon Science Fiction Reader, and Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader. These were digest size magazines (sometimes classed as a series of anthologies) which reprinted science fiction and fantasy literature by now well-known authors. They were edited by Donald A. Wollheim and published by Avon.
Gray Morrow, The Avon Fantasy Reader, Jan. 1969, a paperback anthology of 7 stories from the magazine.Gray Morrow, The 2nd Avon Fantasy Reader, Feb. 1969, a paperback anthology of 9 stories from the magazine.Gray Morrow, Avon Fantasy Reader #2, 1969. This is not the same art as the paperback cover, so I assume there was a hard cover edition using this art. Also used as cover art for the Gray Morrow: Visionary hard cover, 2001.R. Crowl, Avon SF Reader No.1, 51-04. Her theme song can only be “I’m Sexy and I Know it.”AFR No.1. Her theme song can only be “I’m Sexy and I Know it.” Uncredited artist, Avon SF Reader No.1, 51-04.Uncredited artist, Avon Fantasy Reader No. 6, 48-05.Uncredited artist, Avon Fantasy Reader No. 7, 48-09.Uncredited artist, Avon Fantasy Reader No. 7, 48-09.M. Isip, Avon Fantasy Reader No. 13, 50-07.M. Isip, Avon Fantasy Reader No. 12, 50-03.Uncredited artist, Avon Fantasy Reader No. 9, 49-02.Uncredited artist, AFR No. 11, 49-10.“L.S.” (probably Lawrence Sterne Stevens), Avon Fantasy Reader No. 10, 49-07.Uncredited artist, Avon Fantasy Reader No. 18, 52-03, final issue.Harry Barton, Avon Fantasy Reader No. 17, 51-11.M. Crowl, Avon Fantasy Reader No. 14, 50-11.R. Crowl, Avon Fantasy Reader No. 16, 51-07.Uncredited artist, Avon Fantasy Reader No. 15, 51-03.John Giunta, The Forgotten Enemy by Arthur C. Clarke, Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader V1N1, 53-01, p.18.John Giunta, The Agents by Bryce Walton, Avon SF and Fantasy Reader No.1, 53-01, p.24.
