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PLANET STORIES.

[RAY BRADBURY]. PLANET STORIES. Spring 1950. (Volume 4, No. 6). Paul Payne, Ed.

New York: Love Romances, 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Incudes "Forever and the Earth" 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." [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481]. Mild tanning to text paper, all edges trimmed else a bright, nearly fine copy. (36802). Item #36802

Price: $75.00