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Comic books in 'Pulp Magazine/Digest'

  • Vol. 3 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 3 #1


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Interior page detached (all pages are present). Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    Jan 1940. Stories by Edmond Hamilton and Oscar J. Friend. Two-page Benjamin Franklin bio in comic form. Eight Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 3 #2
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 3 #2


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Book length crease on front cover. Cover miswrap. Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    March 1940. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Bob Olsen, Oscar J. Friend, and Alfred Bester. "Thrills in Science" column by Mort Weisinger. Two-page Sir Isaac Newton bio in comic form. Alex Schomburg illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 3 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 3 #3


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    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Book length crease on front cover. Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    May 1940. Cover by Howard V. Brown. Stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum, Manly Wade Wellman, Oscar J. Friend, and Raymond Z. Gallun. "Thrills in Science" column by Mort Weisinger. Two-page Thomas Edison bio in comic form. Nine Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 4 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 4 #1


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate.

    Volume 4, Issue 1 - July 1940. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Eando Binder, Fletcher Pratt and Laurence Manning, and Oscar J. Friend. "Thrills in Science" column by Mort Weisinger. Two-page Luther Burbank bio in comic form. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 4 #2
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 4 #2


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Book length crease on back cover. Front cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Sept 1940. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Benson Herbert, Oscar J. Friend, Ray Cummings, and Gerald Bowman. "Thrills in Science" column by Mort Weisinger. Two-page Galileo bio in comic form. One Virgil Finlay illustration. Alex Schomburg illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 4 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 4 #3


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 25%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Front cover detached 50%. Back cover detached 20%. Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Slightly britle
    • Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 80%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

    Volume 4, Issue 3 - November, 1940. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Thornton Ayre, and Edmond Hamilton. "Thrills in Science" column by Mort Weisinger. Two-page Sir William Perkin bio in comic form. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 134 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 5 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 5 #1


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    January 1941. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories: "A Yank At Valhalla" by Edmond Hamilton, "The Hyper Sense" by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, "The City of Singing Flame" by Clark Ashton Smith, and "The Demons of Darkside" by Leigh Brackett. Softcover Pulp, 6 1/2-in x 9 1/2-in, 130 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 5 #2
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 5 #2


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Interior handwriting. Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 5, Issue 2 - March, 1941. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Arthur, and Stanton A. Coblentz. "Thrills in Science" column by Mort Weisinger. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 132 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 5 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 5 #3


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    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Handwriting on back cover. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    May 1941. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories by David H. Keller, Oscar J. Friend, Leigh Brackett, and John Russell Fearn. "Thrills in Science" column by Mort Weisinger. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 6 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 6 #1


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • 5" Spine split from bottom. Piece missing from back cover.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    July 1941. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories by Jack Williamson, Maria Moravsky, William Morrison, and Ralph T. Jones. "Thrills in Science" column by Mort Weisinger. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 6 #2
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 6 #2


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    • 1" spine split from top of comic.
    • .5" Cumulative spine split. Tape on interior of cover.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Sept 1941. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories by John C. Burroughs and Hulbert Burroughs, A. Rowley Hilliard, Frank Belknap Long, and Robert Moore Williams. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 6 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 6 #3


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream
    • Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 6, Issue 3 - November, 1941. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories by Joseph J. Millard, Robert Bloch, David H. Keller, and John Broome. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 7 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 7 #1


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.
    • Full length spine split (partially taped).
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 7, Issue 1 - January, 1942. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories by Manly Wade Wellman, Isaac Asimov, Miles J. Breuer, and Raymond Z. Gallun. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 132 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 7 #2
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 7 #2


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Glue spots. Front cover detached 40%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    March 1942. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by R.F. Starzl, Malcolm Jameson, Henry Kuttner, and Joseph J. Millard. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 132 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 7 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 7 #3


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Interior handwriting. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.
    • Paper: Cream to off white

    Volume 7, Issue 3 - May, 1942. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Hal K. Wells, Richard O. Lewis, G.L. Maddocks, and Stanton A. Coblentz. Six Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 8 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 8 #1


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Book length crease on front cover. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Trimmed
    • Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

    July 1942. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Noel Loomis, Kennie McDowd, William Morrison, and L. Taylor Hansen. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 8 #2
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 8 #2


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Book length crease on front cover. Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Restored (see item notes)
    • Paper: Cream
    • Piece fill to front cover, Trimmed. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Slightly britle
    • Front cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Sept 1942. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories by William Morrison, Louis Tucker, Owen Fox Jerome, and Frank Johnson. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 8 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 8 #3


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Nov 1942. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by A.G. Stangland, Ross Rocklynne, Joseph J. Millard, and Henry S. Lewis. Dr. Seuss illustration (small "Buy United States War Savings Bonds & Stamps" ad). 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 9 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 9 #1


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Back cover missing. Front cover detached 50%. No Back Cover. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • 4" crease on front cover. Front cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Jan 1943. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories by A. Rowley Hilliard, Robert Moore Williams, William Morrison, Walt Dennis and Ernest Tucker, and Nathaniel Nitkin. Alex Schomburg illustrations. Dr. Seuss illustration (small "Buy United States War Savings Bonds & Stamps" ad). 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 9 #2
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 9 #2


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 9, Issue 2 - March, 1943. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Norman A. Daniels, S.C. Carpenter, Frank Belknap Long, and William Morrison. Dr. Seuss illustration (small "Buy United States War Savings Bonds & Stamps" ad). 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 132 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 9 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 9 #3


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 9, Issue 3 - June, 1943. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Ray Cummings, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Frank Belknap Long, Raymond Z. Gallun, and Thorne Lee. Virgil Finlay illustration. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 132 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 10 #2
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 10 #2


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    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Jan 1944. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Malcolm Jameson, Thomas S. Gardner, Ross Rocklynne, Henry Kuttner, and Stanton A. Coblentz. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 128 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 11 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 11 #1


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 11, Issue 1 - Summer, 1944. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Manly Wade Wellman, William Morrison, Polton Cross, Ford Smith, and Clark Ashton Smith. Two Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 116 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 11 #2
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 11 #2


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    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Off white
    • Trimmed. Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Fall 1944. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Leigh Brackett, D.D. Sharp, Carl Jacobi, Verne Chute, and Charles Stoddard. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 11 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 11 #3


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • 1" Cumulative spine split, paper tape on interior front cover.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Winter 1945. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Noel Loomis, C. Sterling Gleason, Frank Belknap Long, Leslie Northern, and Ford Smith. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 12 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 12 #1


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    • Interior complete. Missing back cover.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Spring 1945. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Brett Sterling, Edmond Hamilton, Ford Smith, and Malcolm Jameson. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 12 #2
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 12 #2


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • No Back Cover. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 80%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 12, Issue 2 - Summer, 1945. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Frank Belknap Long, Ed Earl Repp, and Leslie Northern. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 98 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 13 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 13 #1


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 13, Issue 1 - Winter, 1946. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Edmond Hamilton, P. Schuyler Miller, and Sam Merwin Jr. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 100 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 13 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 13 #3


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 50%. Back cover detached 50%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 13, Issue 3 - Spring, 1946. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Clark Ashton Smith, Polton Cross, Edmond Hamilton, and John Russell Fearn. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 116 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 14 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 14 #1


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Summer 1946. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Edmond Hamilton, Henry Kuttner, Jack Vance, Polton Cross, and Ross Rocklynne. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 14 #2
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 14 #2


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Fall 1946. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Manly Wade Wellman, Henry Kuttner, Francis Flagg, and W.E. Thiessen. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $0.15.

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  • Vol. 14 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 14 #3


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Earle Bergey cover. "the star of life" a complete novel by Edmond Hamilton, and "friends" a short story by Murray Leinster.

    Volume 14, Issue 3 - Winter, 1947. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Edmond Hamilton, Nathan Schachner and Arthur Leo Zagat, Murray Leinster, and George Whitley. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 116 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 15 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 15 #1


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    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Back cover missing. Front cover detached 10%. No Back Cover. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 15, Issue 1 - March, 1947. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories: "The Laws of Chance" by Murray Leinster, "When Planets Clashed" by Manly Wade Wellman, "The Soma Racks" by Margaret St. Clair, "Stellar Snowball" by John Barrett. Softcover, 7-in x 9-in, 116 Pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 15 #2


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 15, Issue 2 - May, 1947. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Heinlein, and John Russell Fearn. 6.75" x 9.75", 116 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 15 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 15 #3


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
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    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

    July 1947. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by David H. Keller, George O. Smith, Henry Kuttner, Otto Binder, Edmond Hamilton, and Margaret St. Clair. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 16 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 16 #1


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Paper: Off white
    • Foxing. Soiling.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 16, Issue 1 - September, 1947. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Keith Hammond, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Carl Jacobi, and Ray Cummings. Five Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 116 pages. Cover price $0.15.

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    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 16 #2


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
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    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 60%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 50%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

    Volume 16, Issue 2 - November, 1947. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Murray Leinster, Jack Williamson, Polton Cross, and Clyde Beck. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 112 pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 16 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 16 #3


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Back cover detached 40%. Front Cover Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • 100% spine split detaching back cover from book.

    Volume 16, Issue 3 - January, 1948. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories: "The Blue Flamingo" by Hannes Bok, "The Conquest of Two Worlds" by Edmond Hamilton, "Aleph Sub One" by Margaret St. Clair, "Ultra Evolution" by Polton Cross, and "Guaranteed" by E. Everett Evans. 6.75" x 9.75", 118 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

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    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 17 #1


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 17, Issue 1 - March, 1948. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Wesley Long, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, James Blish, Carter Sprague, and R.C. W. Ettinger. Four Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 148 pages. Cover price $0.20.

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    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 17 #2


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    • Paper: Off white
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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white

    Volume 17, Issue 2 - May, 1945. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Paul Ernst, Arthur Leo Zagat, Ray Cummings, Frank Belknap Long, Robert Moore Williams, George O. Smith, and John Russell Fearn. Nine Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 150 pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Vol. 17 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 17 #3


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

    July 1948. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton, L. Ron Hubbard, Jack Vance, Margaret St. Clair, and Walt Sheldon. Six Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 150 pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Vol. 18 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 18 #1


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    • Paper: Off white
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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 18, Issue 1 - September, 1948. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Fredric Brown, P. Schuyler Miller, Dorothy and John de Camp, John D. MacDonald, and Jack Vance. Virgil Finlay illustration. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 170 pages. Cover price $0.20.

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    $400 Startling Stories 1948 September, #52. CGC 5.5. Good girl art cover. Pulp

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    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 18 #2


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    In this issue, packed with so many outstanding writers, for the first time Arthur C. Clarke's science-fiction classic, "Against the Fall of Night," plus "The Visitor" by Ray Bradbury

    Volume 18, Issue 2 - November, 1948. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Festus Bragnell, Robert Moore Williams, Frank Belknap Moore, A.E. Van Vogt, John D. MacDonald, Ray Bradbury, and Jack Vance. Two Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 180 pages. Cover price $0.25.

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    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 18 #3


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    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Water damage: Moderate.
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    • Paper: Off white
    • Heavy water damage. Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Staple rust: Moderate.

    Volume 18, Issue 3 - January, 1949. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Alexander M. Phillips, Jack Vance, John D. MacDonald, Murray Leinster, r.W. Stockheker, and L. Ron Hubbard (under the pseudonym Rene LaFayette). Six Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 180 pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 19 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 19 #1


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    • Front cover detached 40%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 19, Issue 1 - March, 1949. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Murray Leinster, Robert Moore Williams, Clifford D. Simak, Ray Bradbury, L. Ron Hubbard (under the pseudonym Rene LaFayette), Jack Vance, and Noel Loomis. Virgil Finlay illustration. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 164 pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 19 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 19 #3


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Extensive.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Front cover detached 40%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

    Volume 19, Issue 3 - July, 1949. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by George O. Smith, Henry Kuttner, Margaret St. Clair, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, L. Ron Hubbard (under the pseudonym Rene LaFayette), and C.M. Kornbluth. Two Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 166 pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 20 #2
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 20 #2


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    • Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Staple rust. Foxing. Soiling. Moisture damage.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 60%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 20, Issue 2 - November, 1949. Stories by John Taine, Murray Leinster, Carter Sprague, Jack Vance, Robert Moore Williams, William Fitzgerald, Clifford D. Simak, and L. Ron Hubbard (under the pseudonym Rene LaFayette). Five Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 166 pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 20 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 20 #3


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Back cover detached 30%. Front Cover Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

    Volume 20, Issue 3 - January, 1950. Cover by Earle Bergey. Stories by A.E. Van Vogt, Edmond Hamilton, Kelvin Kent, William Morrison, L. Ron Hubbard (under pseudonym Rene LaFayette), Margaret St. Clair, J.W. Groves, and John D. MacDonald. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 166 pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 21 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 21 #1


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Full length spine split (glued).
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 21, Issue 1 - March, 1950. Stories by Norman A. Daniels, Ward Hawkins, Raymond F. Jones, Ted Powell, and Matt Lee. Four Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 160 pages. Cover price $0.25.

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    $695 Startling Stories 1950 March, #61. CGC 5.5 Good girl art witch cover. Pulp

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    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 21 #2


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    • Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Extensive.

    Volume 21, Issue 2 - May, 1950. Stories by John D. MacDonald, Edmond Hamilton (Captain Future story "Children of the Sun", Frederic Arnold Kummer Jr., Fritz Leiber Jr., L. Sprague de Camp, and Carl Jacobi. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 164 pages. Cover price $0.25.