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ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Readers' Guild, Inc., 1931. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. This issue the magazine shortens title to just ASTOUNDING STORIES. Features the first published story by Harry Bates, "The Tentacles From Below," writing as Anthony Gilmore. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103].
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." [Reference: 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." [Reference: 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. [Reference: Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 545-550].
THE SPIDER.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by John Howitt, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Flame Master" with Norvell Page writing as "Grant Stockbridge." The character was established to be a direct competitor to Street and Smith's Shadow magazine. After Doc Savage and The Shadow this was the most popular hero character. The Spider character was considered one of the most brutal and violent of the pulp era. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 521-527. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 602-604].