I think you answered your own question, Rich...and I didn't
realize Shaw was working for Quinn as early as SUSPENSE's
brief run (writer, former Howard Browne assistant and future
AMAZING/FANTASTIC/DREAM WORLD editor, then EQMM managing
editor, Paul Fairman was founding editor of Quinn's IF in
1952) so my speculation (that he was moonlighting w/o Quinn's
knowledge) seems more likely. (Shaw'd use the De Mexico
byline on typically fraudulent "true men's adventure" and
similar hack magazine stuff later in his career, after
leaving Quinn to edit INFINITY SF and the series of
magazines, including imitations of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF
FILMLAND and the like, he worked on before taking editorship
of Lancer Books.
If the THRILLING WONDER story is also Shaw's (seems likely,
unless he picked up a Thrilling Group house name and ran with
it, much as Robert Silverberg did with a variant spelling of
Ziff-Davis's Ivar Jorgenson), perhaps Shaw was simply not
proud of the story. TM
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I pulled out the first and last issues of Suspense (there
were only four issues in 1951-1952), and DeMexico was listed
as Associate Editor in the first issue but was promoted to
Managing Editor by the last issue. I haven't dug out the
other suspense issue that I own so I can't say when the
promotion happened. Larry Shaw was an editor with Quinn
Publications in 52 or 53 as I
remember his name on some issues of the science fiction
magazine IF, where he also had a story or two published.
Here's one other fact to throw on the small pile we have.
N.R. DeMexico had
a short story "The Devil's Fiddle" in the June 1943 issue of
Thrilling Wonder. On the one hand here is another link to
science fiction which makes
Larry Shaw a more logical guess as the man behind the
penname. However, why
would a young SF fan(as Shaw was at that time) hide his
identity?
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