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AMAZING STORIES.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1928. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes "The Miracle of the Lilly," by Claire Winger Harris, thought to be the first woman to start her publishing career in the SF genre pulp magazines of the 1920s, this is her second published story in Amazing. Also includes, H. G. Wells, David H. Keller, Hal Grant and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
AMAZING STORIES.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1928. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. One of the high spots of pulp collecting and one the important and influential science fiction issues of the 1920s. It features E.E. Smith's "The Skylark of Space," which is looked upon as the beginning of "Space Opera" in American SF. The other important conribution is Philip Francis Nowlan's "Armageddon 2419 A.D." - the first Buck Rogers tale, the character would achieve much fame in the form of the comic strip which had immense popularity and much like Star Trek and Star Wars helped popularize science fiction to a broader audience. . Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
DETECTIVE BOOK MAGAZINE.
New York: Fiction House, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Thomas Polsky, short fiction by Eugene Pawley, Derek West, William Campbell Gault, and Stewart Sterling.