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PLANET STORIES.

PLANET STORIES. November 1950. (Volume 4, No. 9). Jerome Bixby, Ed.

New York: Love Romances, 1950. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Fredric Brown ("Mitkey Rides Again"), John D. MacDonald, 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. Mild edge wear, small separation of upper left front cover from spine edge, a nearly fine to fine copy. (23873). Item #23873

Price: $75.00