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Publication: Wonder Stories, July 1930

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  • Publication: Wonder Stories, July 1930Publication Record # 62232 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
  • Editor: Hugo Gernsback
  • Date: 1930-07-00
  • Publisher: Stellar Publishing Corporation
  • Price:
    $0.25?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 100
  • Format:
    bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding.
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Cover: Wonder Stories, July 1930 by Frank R. Paul
  • Notes:
    • Page numbers run 97-192.
    • Contents page states publication on the 3rd of the preceding month.
    • Library of Congress copyright record shows publication date 1930-06-01
    • Cover illustrates "The Flight of the Mercury."
    • Cover art is not credited; the artwork is signed "Paul."
    • Interior art is credited below each art item.
    • Story art for "The Time Valve" on page 102 is credited to and signed "Paul."
    • Story art for "The Flight of the Mercury" on page 116 is credited to and signed "Paul."
    • Story art for "The Bat-Men of Mars (Part 3 of 3)" on page 122 is credited to and signed "Paul."
    • Story art for "The War of the Great Ants" on page 140 is credited to and signed "Leonard."
    • Story art for "A Subterranean Adventure (Part 2 of 3)" on page 150 is credited to "Paul"; the artwork shows no signature.
    • "The Red Plague" is the First Prize winner for the cover contest that was announced in the February 1930 issue of Air Wonder Stories. Story art on page 66 is a line re-drawing of that cover. The artwork is not credited, and no signature is visible, but it is likely that Paul is the artist as he was for the original cover.
    • Drawn portraits (uncredited) of the authors appear with each story; they are unsigned except for those of Breuer and Endersby which are signed "B." The portrait of Tanner is a photograph.
    • "Whose Flight Was More Hazardous Lindbergh's or Byrd's?" gives the results of a contest in Air Wonder Stories soliciting essays on this question.
    • "What Is Your Knowledge?" is a list of questions about science facts. With each is listed the story page number on which the answer can be found.
    • "The Reader Speaks" is a letters column.
    • "Science Questions and Answers" is also a letters feature, but deals more narrowly with science questions.
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Editor Title: Wonder Stories - 1930 • [Wonder Stories] • (1930) • edited by Hugo Gernsback

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