Dr. Yen Sin (1936 magazine)

Dr. Yen Sin

Writer(s)	Donald Keyhoe, Arden X. Pangborn, Don Cameron, Moran Tudury, Alden H. Norton, Frank Gruber
Illustrator(s)	Jerome Rozen (cover art); Ralph Carlson (interior)
Frequency	Bi-monthly
Circulation	1000+
Publisher	Popular Publications
First issue	May & June 1936
Final issue	September & October 1936
Preceded by	The Mysterious Wu Fang
Country	United States
Language	English

Dr. Yen Sin is a three-issue fiction anthology magazine that was originally published from May through October 1936 by Popular Publications, featuring lead stories by Donald E. Keyhoe about the plots of the titular doctor, a Fu Manchu-type character and mastermind of the "Invisible Empire", and his adversary Michael Traile, "the Man Who Never Slept" (or "Man Who Never Sleeps"), a spy who suffered chronic insomnolence from childhood after an operation to repair a skull fracture caused irreparable brain damage. The magazine was a follow-up to the earlier title The Mysterious Wu Fang by the same publisher that had ended in February 1936.

Issues

#1, May & June 1936

• Note to Our Readers - An Introduction
• Keyhoe, Donald E., The Mystery of the Dragon's Shadow
• Gruber, Frank, Slant-Eyed Satan
• Oboler, Archie, The Night of Ka-Sam
• Pangborn, Arden X., The Ring of the Red Rooster

#2, July & Aug. 1936

• Feng Tai Sui Feng
• Keyhoe, Donald E., The Mystery of the Golden Skull
• Tudury, Moran, The Third Yen
• Cameron, Don, Chinatown Scoop
• Pangborn, Arden X., Death of a Thousand Cuts

#3, Sept. & Oct. 1936

• Fei Lu Fei Ma
• Keyhoe, Donald E., The Mystery of the Singing Mummies
• Norton, Alden, The Seventh Sleeping Brother
• Gruber, Frank, The Choking Chalice

#4, Unpublished

A fourth issue was solicited, promising a new Keyhoe story, The Case of the Faceless Men, but this was never published, as the magazine ceased publication after the third issue.

Resources

• Lai, Rick (2007), The Chronologies of Wu Fan and Yen Sin, pjfarmer.com, http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/Wu_Fang_Yen_Sin.pdf