The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: Winter-Spring 1950 (Volume 1, Number 2)
Cover by George Salter.

Stories: "The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out" by R. Bretnor (1st of the "Papa Schimmelhorn" stories)
"Return of the Gods" by Robert M. Coates
"Every Work Into Judgement" by Kris Neville
"A Rope for Lucifer" by Walt Sheldon
"The Last Generation?" by Miriam Allen DeFord
"Postpaid to Paradise" by Robert Arthur
"The Exiles" by Ray Bradbury
"My Astral Body" by Anthony Hope
"Gavagan's Bar: Elephas Frumenti + The Gift of God" by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt (first in the series)
"World of Arlesia" by Margaret St. Clair
"The Volcanic Valve" by W. L. Alden
"Not With a Bang" by Damon Knight.

Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas are Editors. Note the longer title, used for all later issues. New department: book reviews (Recommended Reading) by "the editors" begins this month. F&SF was 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.