Imaginative Tales, March 1957

# Imaginative Tales, March 1957

This science fiction pulp magazine contains six stories. The lead novella is Alexander Blade's "The Tattooed Man" (20,000 words), about a spaceman named Joe Chattan who becomes entangled with a mysterious tattooed man of limited intellect while on the planet Rigel Two. After being shot during an alley brawl, Chattan wakes aboard a strange ship—not his own—with an unfamiliar woman caring for him. The issue also features "Suicide Run" by Mark Reinsberg, "Starship Saboteur" by Bob Silvorberg, "The Drainers" by Robert Moore Williams, "Hungry World" by Randall Garrett, and "The Man Who Hated Noise" by S. M. Tenneshaw. Additional non-fiction columns include "Jets Against Missiles!" and "Automation's Horrors." The publication includes editorial commentary and reader correspondence sections.