Spring 1950 (4 results)

Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Ki-Gor, Jungle Lord. Light edge wear with some closed tears and creases. A very good copy. (19218).

Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Mainly a reprint magazine, previously published fiction by George Bruce, Frederick C. Painton, Sam Merwin, Jr., James Donnelly and C.K.M. Scanlon. New stories by Nicholas Zook, Arthur J. Burks and Elizabeth Starr. "Few reprint magazines reached the level of professional excellence of Five Detective Novels, and it remains an outstanding example of the type." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 243-244. Mild tanning to text paper, mild edge wear with tiny tears along bottom front edge, small tear to upper left front and small split at upper left spine edge, a very good copy. (32585).…

VG oversize paperback with Steinberg cover.

Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Incudes "Forever and the Earth" by Ray Bradbury. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481]. Mild tanning to text paper, all edges trimmed else a bright, nearly fine copy. (36802).…