Comet, May 1941
| First published | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Pulp Tales Press |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Type | Anthology |
| Cover art | Frank R. Paul |
| Pages | 129 |
| Price | $15.00 |
| ISBN | 9781936720712 |
- This is a print-on-demand facsimile reprint of the first issue of the pulp magazine of the same time.
- No printing date, or price listed anywhere in or on this magazine. Price and printing date from Amazon.com as of 2015-01-31.
- Comet: Stories of Super Time and Space on the cover only. This magazine is called Comet only on the contents page, in the magazine's indicia, and on the page's header.
- F. Orlin Tremaine is given editor's credit only on the front cover, on the lower left, see image, and then only as Orlin Tremaine.
- "Sky Trap" by Frank Belknap Long is listed on the cover as being part of this issue's contents, but it is not, it would appear in the next issue instead.
- The Spacean is usually a faux five page newssheet, with faux advertisements. In this issue it simulates a newspaper extra detailing an interplanetary battle. With advertisements.
- Artists are given a group credit only on the contents page, and credit is given for each illustration per their signatures.
- Issues were originally $0.20 in 1940.
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Ice Planet | Carl Selwyn | Novelette |
| 25 | The Facts of Life | P. Schuyler Miller | Short Story |
| 34 | We Are One | Eando Binder | Novelette |
| 54 | Derelicts of Uranus | J. Harvey Haggard | Short Story |
| 68 | New to Science Fiction | The Editor | Essay |
| 69 | When Time Rolled Back | Ed Earl Repp | Short Story |
| 80 | The Ransom for Toledo | Neil R. Jones | Novelette |
| 99 | The Spacean: April 2,009—Vol. XXI No. 4 | uncredited | Short Story |
| 104 | The Comet and Denver | uncredited | Essay |
| 105 | Space Blackout | Sam Carson | Short Story |
| 116 | Into the Sun | John L. Chapman | Short Story |
| 119 | Earth's Maginot Line | Roy Paetzke | Short Story |
| 123 | Rocket Mail (Comet, May 1941) | various | Essay |
| 124 | Letter (Comet, May 1941) | Leonard Marlow | Essay |
| 125 | Letter (Comet, May 1941) | C. Hidley | Essay |
| 127 | Letter (Comet, May 1941): About Cosmic Tales | James V. Taurasi | Essay |
| 127 | Letter (Comet, May 1941): The Denvention | Olon F. Wiggins | Essay |
| 128 | Letter (Comet, May 1941) | Joseph Gilbert | Essay |