PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by Allen Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes the classic story "Mars Is Heaven" by Ray Bradbury, part of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. Also stories by James Blish, William Tenn, A. Betram Chandler 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]. Toning to text paper, light edge wear, reading crease, a very good copy. (36797). Item #36797
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