The Magazine of Fantasy: Fall 1949 (Volume 1, Number 1)
Cover Kodachrome by Bill Stone.

Stories: "Bells on His Toes" by Cleve Cartmill
"Thurnley Abbey" by Percival Landon (reprint)
"Private - Keep Out!" by Philip MacDonald
"The Lost Room" by Fitz-James O'Brien (reprint)
"The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast" by Theodore Sturgeon
"Review Copy" by H. H. Holmes (Anthony Boucher)
"Men of Iron" by Guy Endore (reprint from 1940)
"A Bride for the Devil" by Stuart Palmer
"Rooum" by Oliver Onions
"Perseus Had a Helmet" by Richard Sale (reprint from 1938)
"In the Days of Our Fathers" by Winona McClintic.

Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas are Editors. This is the only issue with the shorter title - it begins with a 3 page introduction from the publisher. F&SF became one of the "big 3" magazines of the Fifties along with Astounding and Galaxy - a leader in the field as soon as it appeared. It had its own character - a rather eclectic mix of fantasy & SF with an occasional reprint - all up to the standards of the Literary magazines that shaped the standards of modern short story writing. The first 4 issues were quarterly, then it was bimonthly until August 1952, then monthly… for 3+ decades.