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Publication: Tales of Wonder, #6

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  • Publication: Tales of Wonder, #6Publication Record # 364168 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
  • Editor: Walter H. Gillings
  • Date: 1939-03-00
  • Publisher: World's Work
  • 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: 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: Tales of Wonder, #6 by W. J. Roberts
  • Notes:
    • Trimmed edges.
    • Page numbers run 1-128.
    • Title given as "Tales of Wonder and Super-Science" on the contents page.
    • Stated "Spring, 1939" on the contents page. No month listed.
    • No Editor listed.
    • Cover art is not credited; the artwork is signed "W. J. Roberts."
    • Interior art is not credited.
    • Story art for "The Mad Planet" on pages 4 and 33 is signed "Turner."
    • Story art for "The Thing in the Ice" on page 37 is not signed.
    • Story art for "The Mentality Machine" on page 44 is signed "T."
    • Story art for "Voyage of Sacrifice" on page 51 is signed "T."
    • Story art for "Warning from Luna" on page 64 is signed "Turner."
    • Story art for "The Alien Error" on page 76 is signed "Turner."
    • Story art for "The Gas-Weed" on page 90 is signed "Turner."
    • Story art for "The Inner World" on page 101 is signed "Turner."
    • "Readers' Reactions" is a letters column.
    • "Authors' Corner" prints essays by some of this issue's authors.
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Editor Title: Tales of Wonder - 1939 • [Tales of Wonder] • (1939) • edited by Walter Gillings [as by Walter H. Gillings]

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