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PLANET STORIES.

PLANET STORIES. September 1953. (Volume 6, Number 2). Jack O'Sullivan, ed.

New York: Love Romances, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Leigh Brackett story. 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. Upper and lower edges trimmed, mild edge wear, several chips to upper front cover, some stress creases, a very good copy. (23884). Item #23884

Price: $35.00