Publication: Startling Stories, [January] 1954 (UK)

Publication: Startling Stories, [January] 1954 (UK)Publication Record # 434133 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Samuel Mines
Date: 1954-01-00
Publisher: Pemberton's
Price:
-/9^?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: 66
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: Startling Stories, [January] 1954 (UK) by Alex Schomburg (variant of Startling Stories, October 1953 1953)
Notes: Date from Visco Uses original cover art from US 10/53 Issue - signed on cover by artist Content is drawn from the 12/52 issue except for "Looking for Something" which comes from 04/52 US issue

Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page

Contents (view Concise Listing)

4 • Love That Air! • (1952) • novelette by Kendell Foster Crossen
4 • Love That Air! • (1952) • interior artwork by Alex Schomburg [as by Schomburg]
22 • Whoever You Are • (1952) • novelette by Judith Merril
22 • Whoever You Are • (1952) • interior artwork by Ed Emshwiller [as by Emsh]
40 • Looking for Something? • (1952) • short story by Frank Herbert
40 • Looking for Something? • (1952) • interior artwork by J. Dreany
49 • Sail On! Sail On! • (1952) • short story by Philip José Farmer
49 • Sail On! Sail On! • (1952) • interior artwork by J. Dreany
59 • Show Me the Way to Go Home • (1952) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
59 • Show Me the Way to Go Home • (1952) • interior artwork by uncredited

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