Item #23900 PLANET STORIES. PHILIP K. DICK, ed PLANET STORIES. May 1953. . Jack O'Sullivan, Number 12 Volume 5.

PLANET STORIES.

New York: Love Romances, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Infinites" by Philip K. Dick (his third appearance in Planet). 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. Edge wear with creases and small tears, tape to upper right edge and tape ghost to mid-left front cover, minor loss lower left corner and spine end, a good copy. (23900). Item #23900

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