Planet stories fall 1940 malcolm (1 risultati)

Octavo, single issue, cover by A Drake (Stanley Albert Drake), pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by Ray Cummings, Neil R. Jones, Nelson Bond, Donald A. Wolheim and others. 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, mild edge wear, bottom edge trimmed, a nearly fine copy. (36768).…