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Publication: Weird Story Magazine, August 1940

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  • Publication: Weird Story Magazine, August 1940Publication Record # 585719 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
  • Editor: Gerald G. Swan
  • Date: 1940-08-00
  • Publisher: Gerald G. Swan
  • Price:
    -/7?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
  • Pages: 100
  • Format:
    pulp?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Cover: Weird Story Magazine, August 1940 by Ron
  • Notes: #1 Editor per Galactic Central. The cover artist is from Peter Haining's The Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines which also speculates that the artist may be Ron Embleton Note that Ron Embleton must have been just ten years old if this were true...
Cover art supplied by Galactic Central
Editor Title: Weird Story Magazine - 1940 • [Weird Story Magazine] • edited by Gerald G. Swan

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