Man from U.N.C.L.E., The [magazine]
Entry updated 3 March 2025. Tagged: Publication.
Digest-size Magazine. Publisher: Leo Margulies Corporation. Editor: uncredited, but probably Cylvia Kleinman. 24 monthly issues, February 1966 to January 1968.
A Tie magazine spun off from the Television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (which see), this featured novella-length lead "novels" starring series heroes Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin, agents of U.N.C.L.E., battling their usual adversaries from T.H.R.U.S.H. These tales were attributed to the House Name Robert Hart Davis which hid the identities of authors Richard A Curtis, I G Edmonds, Dennis Lynds, John Jakes, Frank Belknap Long, Talmage Powell, Bill Pronzini, and Harry Whittington. As in the television series, regular use was made of sf themes such as Mad Scientists with various super-Weapons, Time Travel, and so on. Issues were rounded out with short stories, mostly dealing with more routine mystery/espionage subjects: contributors here included Long and Pronzini. The occasional feature "Department of Lost Stories" reprinted sf or Horror stories from Weird Tales, the rights to which Margulies then owned. These included "Pygmy Island" (August 1930 Weird Tales) by Edmond Hamilton and "Our Fair City" (January 1949 Weird Tales) by Robert A Heinlein.
All covers were black-and-white photos of actors Robert Vaughn and David McCallum. While editorship has sometimes been attributed to Alden H Norton (1903-1987), Cylvia Kleinman (1909-1984) seems much more likely, as she was Margulies's wife and had edited most issues of Satellite Science Fiction for him in the 1950s. The lead stories have apparently not been reprinted in the USA. The magazine folded when the television series was cancelled in 1968. [GSt/DRL]
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