Death Ray magazine

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Death Ray
The cover of the 'dummy' issue of Death Ray magazine
Editor Guy Haley
Categories General Interest/Science Fiction
Frequency Every four weeks
First Issue May 2007
Company Blackfish Publishing
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Website www.blackfishpublishing.com
ISSN 1753-9692

Death Ray is a British magazine devoted to science fiction and fantasy in all its forms, especially media-related topics and novels, but not containing fiction. It is published every four weeks, with the first issue going on sale in May 2007. Typical issues are 132 pages, perfect bound, on glossy paper.

Death Ray was created by Matt Bielby, the ex-Future Publishing editor who launched many of that company's biggest titles, including Total Film magazine and SFX magazine, the dominant SF title. Death Ray is the first magazine from Blackfish Publishing, Bielby's magazine company, based in Bath, UK.

Bielby has said that the magazine's name is influenced by a combination of a) the name of the influential 1990s Californian music magazine Ray Gun, b) the name of the Martian 'heat-ray' weapon from HG Wells' The War of the Worlds (1898), c) the single issue story 'The Death Ray' from Daniel Clowes' Eightball comic book, d) an Australian comic book from WW2 called The Death Ray, and e) issue 64 of Marvel Comics' The Mighty Avengers, '…Like a Death Ray From the Sky!' (May 1969).

[edit] External links

Blackfish Publishing www.blackfishpublishing.com

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