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Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp comic books 1939-1941

  • Vol. 13 #1
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 13 #1


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Soiling. Water damage.
    • 3 1/4" Cumulative spine split.
    • 3" Cumulative spine split.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 13, Issue 1 - February, 1939. Stories by Max Sheridan, Arthur J. Burks, Frederic Arnold Kummer Jr., Gordon A. Giles, Polton Cross, Hal K. Wells, Carl Jacobi, and Myer Krulfeld. Alex Schomburg illustrations. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 130 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 13 #2
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 13 #2


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Soiling. Water damage.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 70%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 13, Issue 2 - April, 1939. Cover by Howard V. Brown. "The Broken Axion" 1st published story by Alfred Bester. Other stories by Clifford Simak, Eando Binder, Ward Hawkins, Frank Belknap Long Jr., Roscoe Clark, Henry Kuttner, and Ray Cummings. Virgil Finlay illustration. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 13 #3
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 13 #3


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Spine stress. Corner Damage. Creasing. Denting. Edge damage. Soiling.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • 4 1/2" crease on back cover. Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front and Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.

    June 1939. 10th Anniversary Issue. Stories by John Taine, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Jack Williamson, David H. Keller, Edward Elmer Smith, Eando Binder, John C. Burroughs and Hulbert Burroughs, and Otis Adelbert Kline. Virgil Finlay (3) and Alex Schomburg illustrations. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 134 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 14 #1
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 14 #1


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 40%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Aug 1939. Stories by Otis Adelbert Kline, Stanton A. Coblentz, Robert Moore Williams, Frank Belknap Long Jr., Lyle D. Gunn, Graph Waldeyer, Kelvin Kent, and Ray Cummings. Virgil Finlay (4) and Alex Schomburg illustrations. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 14 #2
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 14 #2


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    • Staple rust. Rust migration. Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Extensive.

    Oct 1939. Cover by Howard V. Brown. Stories by John W. Campbell Jr., Sam Merwin Jr., Arthur K. Barnes and Henry Kuttner, Gordon A. Giles, Oscar J. Friend, Charles F. Ksanda, and H.L. Gold. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 14 #3
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 14 #3


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    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Interior page detached (all pages are present). Front cover detached 25%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.

    Dec 1939. Stories by Eando Binder, Henry Kuttner, Frederic Arnold Kummer Jr., Manly Wade Wellman, Kelvin Kent, Oscar J. Friend, Ray Cummings, and Alfred Bester. Virgil Finlay illustration. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 130 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 15 #1
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 15 #1


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

    Jan 1940. Cover by Howard V. Brown. Stories by Manly Wade Wellman, Frederic A. Kummer Jr., Robert Arthur, Gordon A. Giles, Robert Moore Williams, Nicholas E. Kenealy, and Eando Binder. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 15 #2
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 15 #2


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

    Volume 15, Issue 2 - February, 1940. Cover by Howard V. Brown. Stories by Arthur K. Barnes, Edmond Hamilton, John C. Burroughs and Hulbert Burroughs, Jackson Gregory Jr., Myer Krulfeld, F. Orlin Tremaine, and Clark Ashton Smith. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. Alex Schomburg illustrations. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 15 #3
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 15 #3


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

    Volume 15, Issue 3 - March, 1940. Stories by Frederic Arnold Kummer Jr., Eando Binder, Manly Wade Wellman, Raymond Z. Gallun, Gordon A. Giles, H.L. Gold, and Leo Sonderegger. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 134 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 16 #2
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 16 #2


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    • Paper: Off white
    • 3" Of weak bindery glue from top of book.

    Volume 16, Issue 2 - May, 1940. Cover by Howard V. Brown. Stories by Nelson S. Bond, Henry Kuttner and Arthur K. Barnes, Edmond Hamilton, Eando Binder, Don Tracy, Paul Chadwick, and Bill Brudy. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. Alex Schomburg illustrations. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 130 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 16 #3
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 16 #3


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Pieces of tape on interior cover.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    June 1940. Cover by Howard V. Brown. Stories by Jack Williamson, "Dr. Cyclops" -- adapted from movie script by Henry Kuttner, Frank Belknap Long Jr., Edmond Hamilton, Myer Krulfeld, Nelson S. Bond, and Kelvin Kent. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 17 #1
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 17 #1


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

    Volume 17, Issue 1 - July, 1940. Cover by Howard V. Brown (later redone as 1960s #53 issue of "Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen"). Stories by Harry Bates, Alfred Bester, Willard E. Hawkins, David V. Reed, H.L. Gold, Helen Weinbaum, and Raymond Z. Gallun. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 136 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 17 #2
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 17 #2


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

    Aug 1940. Cover by Howard V. Brown. Stories by Eando Binder, Manly Wade Wellman, Ray Cummings, Nelson S. Bond, Henry Kuttner, Gerald Evans, and Oscar J. Friend. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 17 #3
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 17 #3


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

    Sept 1940. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Arthur J. Burks, Frederic Arnold Kummer Jr., Max C. Sheridan, Kelvin Kent, Malcolm Jameson, Ray Cummings, Edmond Hamilton, and Oscar J. Friend. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 18 #1
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 18 #1


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

    Volume 18, Issue 1 - October, 1940. Stories by Kelvin Kent, Manly Wade Wellman, Arthur K. Barnes, Robert Moore Williams, Frank Johnson, Gordon A. Giles, Edmond Hamilton, and Gerald Evans. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 18 #2
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 18 #2


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

    Nov 1940. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Robert Arthur, Hal K. Wells, Don Tracy, Henry Kuttner, Gordon A. Giles, Nelson S. Bond, and Arthur J. Burks. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 18 #3
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 18 #3


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

    Dec 1940. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Edmond Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman, G.T. Fleming-Roberts, Sam Merwin Jr., Gordon A. Giles, Kenneth L. Harrison, and Ray Cummings. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 19 #1
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 19 #1


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 19, Issue 1 - January, 1941. Cover by Gabriel Mayorga. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Arthur J. Burks, Raymond Z. Gallun, Alfred Bester, Kelvin Kent, Otis Adelbert Kline, Joseph J. Millard, and Frederick Engelhardt. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 130 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 19 #2
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 19 #2


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Book length crease on front cover. Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

    Feb 1941. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Arthur K. Barnes, Alfred Bester, Kelvin Kent, Eando Binder, William Morrison, Oscar J. Friend, and Joseph J. Millard. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

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  • Vol. 19 #3
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 19 #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 to off white
    • Staple rust. Foxing. Soiling. Moisture damage.
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Soiling. Water damage.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • 7 1/2" crease on front cover. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    Volume 19, Issue 3 - March, 1941. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Barry Cord, Frederic Arnold Kummer Jr., Ivan Sandrof, Robert Arthur, Arthur K. Barnes, William Morrison, and Malcolm Jameson. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 134 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 20 #1
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 20 #1


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

    Volume 20, Issue 1 - April, 1941. cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Eando Binder, Clifford D. Simak, Maurice Renard, Robert Arthur, and Robert Moore Williams. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. Five Virgil Finlay illustrations. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 134 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 20 #2
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 20 #2


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

    June 1941. Cover by Hans W. Wesso. Stories by Willard E. Hawkins, Frank Belknap Long, Ray Cummings, Henry Kuttner, Will Garth, and Harry Walton. Scientifacts column by Mort Weisinger. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 20 #3
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 20 #3


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Trimmed. Book length creasing on front and back cover. Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Light tan
    • Staple rust. 4 1/2" Spine split from top of book. Foxing. Soiling.
    • 3/4" Cumulative spine split.

    Volume 20, Issue 3 - August, 1941. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories by Edmond Hamilton, Don Tracy, William Morrison, Manly Wade Wellman, John Broome, and Harry Walton. Six Virgil Finlay illustrations. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 132 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 21 #1
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 21 #1


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    • Paper: Cream
    • 1" spine split from bottom (glued).
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream
    • Trimmed. Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. 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.

    Oct 1941. Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Stories by Manly Wade Wellman, Victor Rousseau, Ross Rocklynne, Frank Belknap Long, Bill Brudy, and Richard Wilson. Two Virgil Finlay illustrations. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 21 #2
    Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936-1955 Beacon/Better/Standard) Pulp Vol. 21 #2


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

    December, 1941. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Malcolm Jameson, Ray Cummings, William Morrison, Frank Belknap Long, and H.L. Gold. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 128 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.15.