Publication: Amazing Stories [UK], #17, February 1953

Publication: Amazing Stories [UK], #17, February 1953Publication Record # 599070 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Howard Browne
Date: 1953-02-00
Publisher: Thorpe & Porter
Price:
1/-^?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: Amazing Stories [UK], #17, February 1953 by Robert Gibson Jones (variant of Amazing Stories, September 1951 1951)
Notes: • Issue number appears on the spine only • "Front cover painting by Robert Gibson Jones, illustration a scene from "A Worlds He Never Made" " on page 5, the artwork is also signed • All contents from the September 1951 US edition though with fewer stories and only a few essays • Date from Tuck • All pages after 73 are not numbered • All US ads are replaced by UK ones

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

6 • The Observatory (Amazing Stories, September 1951) • [Editorial (Amazing Stories)] • (1951) • essay by Howard Browne
8 • A World He Never Made • (1951) • interior artwork by Rod Ruth
9 • A World He Never Made • (1951) • novella by unknown [as by Edwin Benson]
32 • A World He Never Made [2] • (1951) • interior artwork by Rod Ruth
55 • We're Not Alone! • (1951) • essay by Frank Cain
55 • What's the Big Attraction? • (1951) • essay by Leo Lewin
56 • You've Got to Believe • (1951) • interior artwork by Leo Summers [as by Leo Ramon Summers]
57 • You've Got to Believe • (1951) • short story by Frank M. Robinson
74 • Some Wolves Can't Kill! • (1951) • novelette by William P. McGivern
74 • Some Wolves Can't Kill! • (1951) • interior artwork by Lawrence
95 • The Cosmic Question • (1951) • essay by Glenn Otis
98 • When Swac Meets Greek • (1951) • essay by Milton Matthew
98 • One + One = One • (1951) • essay by G. Lasher

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