INTRODUCTION
In the 1940s the pulp magazine market was exploding. Fantastic Adventures was a companion magazine to the Science Fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. Fantastic Adventures used staff writers to fill most of their content. William P. McGivern was one of those authors. Writing under his own name and several pen names he was a dependable writer that wrote reams of wordage, not only for Fantastic Adventures but also for Amazing Stories, Mammoth Westerns, Mammoth Mysteries, and other fiction published by ZiffDavis publishing. Although later in his career he became an acclaimed writer of gritty detective mysteries, in the 40s he wrote to suit whatever genre magazine he was writing for. In the October, 1941 issue, McGivern penned a story of a different nature and introduced us to Tink and Nastee, in “Tink Takes a Hand”. Here Tink and Nastee are presented as two leprechauns of opposite natures. We find that Tink’s full name is Tinkle, and yet somehow he’s not the bitter one. As in all the stories, the leprechauns interfere in the lives of humans in positive and negative ways. In the next story, “Tink Takes a Fling” from June, 1942, Tink gains a love interest and we are introduced to Jing, a most lovely elfin sprite. In this story Tink is the cause of most of the trouble as he distracts Jing from performing her duty as part of a team of musical muses. In 1942, World War II was really heating with the U.S. 9