PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1946. Octavo, single issue, cover by Chester Martin, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Creature That Time Forgot" 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. Mild edge wear, mild crease to upper left front corner, tiny paper loss at base of spine, separation of upper front cover from spine edge with a small closed tear, a very good to nearly fine copy. (23859). Item #23859
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