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Startling Stories, November 1939

November 1939

Editor Mort Weisinger
Cover art Howard V. Brown
Publisher Better Publications, Inc.
Price $0.15
Pages 132
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  • Vol 2, No 3.
  • Page numbers run 3-130.
  • The Editor is not credited.
  • Cover art is not credited; the artwork shows no signature. Credit from Jack Williamson's Seventy-Five: The Diamond Anniversary of a Science Fiction Pioneer.
  • Interior art is not credited.
  • "Meet the Author: A New World" includes a photo of Williamson.
  • Story art for "The Fortress of Utopia" on pages 25, 35, and 41 is signed "HWesso"; that on page 47 is signed "HW"; that on pages 14-15, 17, 19, 21, 27, 31, and 53 shows no signature.
  • "The Conquest of the Impossible" includes a photo of Farley.
  • Story art for "Three Wise Men" on page 92 shows no signature.
  • Story art for "A Martian Odyssey" on page 106 is signed "Paul." A photo of the author is included on page 109.
  • "Thrills in Science" consists of several biographical essays: "The World Moves On" (Galileo de Galilei), "Laboratory Life" (Alessandro Volta), and "Racing Against Light!" (Albert Abraham Michelson).
  • "The Ether Vibrates" is a letters column.
  • "Science Question Box" is also a letters column, but deals only with science questions.
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Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
Editor Non Fiction Startling Stories - 1939 Mort Weisinger
Cover Art Non Fiction Startling Stories, November 1939 Howard V. Brown
14 Interior Art Non Fiction The Fortress of Utopia (Complete Novel) H. W. Wesso
90 Interior Art Non Fiction They Changed the World: The Life Story of Heinrich R. Hertz Jack Binder
92 Interior Art Non Fiction Three Wise Men uncredited
106 Interior Art Non Fiction A Martian Odyssey Frank R. Paul