The fourth issue carried a story by Robert Heinlein, "Elephant Circuit", written ten years earlier (later reprinted as "The Man Who Traveled in Elephants"), and Wollheim obtained stories from a wide range of well-known writers, including Harlan Ellison, Cordwainer Smith, Clark Ashton Smith, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Damon Knight, Gordon R. Dickson, Jack Vance, and H. P. Lovecraft. In many cases, according to sf historians Joe Sanders and Mike Ashley, "the stories... gave the suggestion of being dragged out of the back corner of some desk drawer", but they also comment that some material was "surprisingly fresh", and it was popular enough to be ranked the second-favorite magazine in a poll in the fanzine Science-Fiction Times after its first year. The March 1958 issue included Ray Cummings' "Requiem for a Small Planet"; Cummings was one of the most popular sf writers of the 1920s, and this was the last original story of his to appear in a science fiction magazine—and one of the many he set in an infinitesimally small world.
In the context of science fiction fandom, this fourth issue featured an article by Robert Heinlein, "Elephant Circuit", which had been written ten years earlier (later reprinted as "The Man Who Traveled in Elephants"). Wollheim also acquired stories from well-known writers, including Harlan Ellison and others. The March 1958 issue included Ray Cummings' "Requiem for a Small Planet".