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Cover of Planet Stories, Summer 1940

Planet Stories, Summer 1940

Malcolm Reiss

First published 2011
Series Planet Stories magazine reprints #3
Publisher Adventure House
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Albert Drake
Pages 128
Price $14.95
ISBN 9781597984089

  • Facsimile reprint of the original pulp magazine.
  • Date of publication from Amazon.com as of 2012-04-02.
  • Although dated Summer 1940, date of publication per the indicia on the contents page, the publishing date is 1941-05-01.
  • All artwork in this issue is uncredited. Credit is assigned per artist's signatures. Cover artist is credited by the reprint publisher Adventure House.
  • The illustration on page twenty-eight is signed but almost illegible, but seems to be Wm Founnof, although that may be wrong.
  • On page 121 the editor states that the art in this issue by Don Lynch and Ed Smalley is their first published pulp work.
  • There is an ad on page eighty-one for the June 1940 issue of Action Stories which contains the, so far, unlisted science fiction story "The Destroyers from Mars" by Eando Binder. On page 123 there is an ad for the Summer 1940 issue of Two Complete Detective Novels which contains an unlisted publication of William Sloane's The Edge of Running Water.
  • C$15.95 in Canada.