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OPERATOR #5.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue cover by John Hewitt, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Bloody Forty-Five Days," Curtis Steele (pseudonym). Part 3 of The Purple Invasion story. A well regarded hero pulp with strong science fictional elements combined with spy fiction. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 402-405. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 448-451.
OPERATOR #5.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover novel "The Bloody Forty-five Days," by Curtis Steele (pseudonym). A well regarded hero pulp with strong science fictional elements combined with spy fiction. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 402-405. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 448-451.
ORBIT SCIENCE FICTION. (Five issues, all published).
New York: Hanro Corporation, 1953-1954. Small octavo, five issues. Digest magazine. Another short lived magazine of the 1950s boomlet. A magazine that published some quality fiction. Though Saltman was the editor he knew little about science fiction and he used Donald A. Wollheim to acquire stories, acting as a "literary editor." Author's include August Derleth, Mack Reynolds, Charles Beaumont, John Christopher, Philip K. Dick, Gordon R. Dickson, Michael Shaara, Jack Vance and others. Derleth had a Tex Harrigan story in all five issues. The Philip K. Dick story in issue three, "The Adjustment Team" is the basis for the film "The Adjustment Bureau" (2011), Dick also had stories in two other issues. Donald A. Wollheim's (as Martin Pearson) story in the issue one "Asteroid 745: Mauritia" is "...a rare combination of SF and the supernatural and is a genuine SF ghost story." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, p 452. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 451-454.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Infinites" by Philip K. Dick (his third appearance in Planet). Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Infinites" by Philip K. Dick (his third appearance in Planet). Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Vestal, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Incudes Philip K. Dick"s second professionally published story, "The Gun." Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Incudes "The Incubi of Parallel X" by Ted Sturgeon. Also fiction by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson Alfred Coppel, and others. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1943. Octavo, single issue, cover by Gross. pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Incudes fiction by Henry Kuttner, Nelson Bond, Fred Pohl writing as "James MacCreigh," and others. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1946. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Gardner F. Fox, Raymond F. Jones, Carl Jacobi and others. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1946. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Gardner F. Fox, Raymond F. Jones, Carl Jacobi and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
New York: Fictioneers, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Silence" by Ray Bradbury. Other fiction by Henry Kuttner, James Blish, Manly Wade Wellman and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1947. Octavo, single issue, cover by A. Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Rocket Summer" by Ray Bradbury. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY.
Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Jack Coggins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Milton Lesser, Bryce Walton and others. SFQ is also notable as it became the last published SF pulp magazine, the last issue in 1958. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 545-550.
SKY FIGHTERS.
New York: Beverly House, Inc., 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by E. Frandzen, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Air stories.
SMASHING DETECTIVE STORIES.
Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1956. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Crime fiction. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 510-511.
SPEED DETECTIVE.
Springfield, MA: Trojan Pubications, Inc., 1946. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Robert Leslie Bellem (Dan Turner), Roger Torrey and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 515-518.
SPEED MYSTERY.
Springfield, MA: Trojan Pubications, Inc., 1944. Octavo, single issue, cover by H[ugh] J[ospeh] Ward, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. This magazine started its incarnation as SPICY MYSTERY STORIES. Most of the fiction writers are house pseudonyms. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 518-521.
SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES.
Wilmington, DE: Culture Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Ward, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 515-518.
SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES.
Wilmington, DE: Culture Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Parkhurst, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 515-518.
SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES.
Wilmington, DE: Culture Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by Allen Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Most story author's are pseudonyms. Includes a Diana Daw comic strip set in space. This is the final issue before the name change to Speed Adventure Stories.
SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES.
Wilmington, DE: Culture Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes the posthumous publication of the story "Murderer's Grog," a wild Bill Clanton story using the pseudonym Sam Walser.
STRANGE STORIES.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The final issue. Fiction by E. Hoffman Price, August Derleth, Seabury Quinn, and others. Strange Stories was a magazine established to compete with Weird Tales, it lasted only thirteen issues. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 623-625.
WHISPERS.
Browns Mills, NJ: Stuart David Schiff, 1983. Octavo, single issue, cloth. First edition. Of 376 hardbound copies this is one of 350 numbered copies signed by Whitley Streiber and publisher Stuart Schiff. The Whitley Streiber issue. Contributors include Streiber, Charles Grant, Stephen Goldin, Manly Wade Wellman, Hugh B. Cave and others.
SUPER-DETECTIVE.
New York: Trojan Publishing Corporation, 1941. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. In the beginning this was not really a detective magazine but a hero-adventure magazine featuring Jim Anthony of Irish and American Indian lineage. Basically a Doc Savage imitation. With this issue and story "I.O.U. Murder" the series moved into a detective series with the adventure trappings and the Anthony character started wearing business suits. The stories were written by John Grange, a house pseudonym for Robert Leslie Bellem and W. T. Ballard. The Anthony character was phased out in 1943. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 543-545.