Publication: Planet Stories, Spring 1942

Publication: Planet Stories, Spring 1942Publication Record # 60022 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Malcolm Reiss
Date: 1942-02-00
Publisher: Love Romances Publishing Co., Inc.
Price:
$0.20^?$: US dollar
Pages: 132
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: Planet Stories, Spring 1942 by Leydenfrost
Webpages: archive.org
Notes:
- Vol 1, No 10.
- Page numbers run 1-128.
- Cover has "Fiction House Magazines" logo.
- Cover art is credited to "Leydenfrost"; no signature found on the artwork.
- Contents page states an issue date of February 1, 1942.
- Interior art is credited at the start of each story, except that art for "The Ballad of Venus Nell" is uncredited.
- Story art for "Black Friar of the Flame" on pages 2-3 is credited to and signed "Paul."
- Story art for "The Star Mouse" is credited to "Lynch"; the artwork on pages 28 and 35 is signed "Don Lynch"; that on page 37 is signed "D.L."; that on page 40 is unsigned.
- Story art for "Gods of Space" on page 43 is credited to "Musacchia"; the artwork is signed "John B. Musacchia."
- Story art for "The Ballad of Venus Nell" on pages 56 and 65 is not credited; the artwork is signed "Don Lynch."
- Story art for "The Thing of Venus" on page 67 is credited to "Morey"; the artwork is signed "Leo Morey."
- Story art for "Pied Piper of Mars" on pages 80-81 is credited to and signed "A. Leydenfrost."
- Story art for "The Last Martian" on page 92 is credited to "Morey"; the artwork shows no signature.
- Story art for "Child of the Sun" on pages 102-103 is credited to and signed "A. Leydenfrost."
- "P.S.'s Feature Flash" includes a short editorial introduction followed by text written by Brown.
- "The Vizigraph" is a letters column.

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Editor Title: Planet Stories - 1942 • [Planet Stories] • (1942) • edited by Malcolm Reiss

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2 • Black Friar of the Flame • novelette by Isaac Asimov
2 • Black Friar of the Flame • interior artwork by Frank R. Paul [as by Paul]
28 • The Star Mouse • [Mitkey • 1] • novelette by Fredric Brown
28 • The Star Mouse • interior artwork by Don Lynch [as by Lynch]
41 • P.S.'s Feature Flash (Planet Stories, Spring 1942) • [PS's Feature Flash] • essay by Fredric Brown
42 • Gods of Space • short story by Ray Cummings
42 • Gods of Space • interior artwork by John B. Musacchia [as by Musacchia]
56 • The Ballad of Venus Nell • poem by Nelson S. Bond
56 • The Ballad of Venus Nell • interior artwork by Don Lynch
66 • The Thing of Venus • short story by Wilbur S. Peacock
66 • The Thing of Venus • interior artwork by Leo Morey [as by Morey]
80 • Pied Piper of Mars • short story by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr.
80 • Pied Piper of Mars • interior artwork by Leydenfrost [as by A. Leydenfrost]
92 • The Last Martian • short story by Ray Van Houten [as by Raymond Van Houten]
92 • The Last Martian • interior artwork by Leo Morey [as by Morey]
102 • Child of the Sun • novelette by Leigh Brackett
102 • Child of the Sun • interior artwork by Leydenfrost [as by A. Leydenfrost]
118 • The Vizigraph (Planet Stories, Spring 1942) • [The Vizigraph (Planet Stories)] • essay by various
118 • The Vizigraph • (1940) • interior artwork by uncredited
118 • Letter (Planet Stories, Spring 1942): Yeah—Man • essay by W. Kermit Conway, III
119 • Letter (Planet Stories, Spring 1942): Terrific New Idea for Planet • essay by Guy Gifford
119 • Letter (Planet Stories, Spring 1942): In No. 2 Spot • essay by Alfred E. Maxwell
122 • Letter (Planet Stories, Spring 1942): The Happy Genius— • essay by Milton Lesser [as by Milt Lesser]
123 • Letter (Planet Stories, Spring 1942): Mosky Unhorsed by Knight • essay by Damon Knight
124 • Letter (Planet Stories, Spring 1942): Gadzooks! • essay by William Conover [as by William A. Conover]
125 • Letter (Planet Stories, Spring 1942): Return of the Prodigal • [Letters: Isaac Asimov] • essay by Isaac Asimov
126 • Letter (Planet Stories, Spring 1942): Enter the Mad Russian • essay by Bill Stoy
128 • Letter (Planet Stories, Spring 1942): No Hermit He • essay by Larry T. Shaw [as by Larry Shaw]

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Publication: Planet Stories, Spring 1942

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