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Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp comic books 1942-1944

  • Vol. 16 #1
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 16 #1


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Staple rust. Rust migration. Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.

    January 1942. Cover by Malcolm Smith. Special Giant Size Issue. Stories by Alfred Bester, Robert Moore Williams, Frank Patton, Donald Bern, Harry Bates, Festus Pragnell, P.F. Costello, Duncan Farnsworth, and William P. McGivern. Illustrations by Virgil Finlay, Robert Fuqua, Magarian, Rod Ruth, Jay Jackson, and Joe Sewell. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 244 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 16 #2
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 16 #2


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Spine stress. Corner Damage. Denting. Edge damage. Scuffing. Soiling.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Foxing. Soiling. Water damage.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

    February 1942. Cover by L. Raymond Jones. Giant Size Issue. Stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs ("Return to Pellucidar"), Isaac Asimov ("Robot AL 76 Goes Astray"), William P. McGivern, Robert Moore Williams, John York Cabot, Leo A. Schmidt, Ralph Milne Farley, P.F. Costello, Duncan Farnsworth, Don Wilcox, and Eric Frank Russell. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John, Ned Hadley, Robert Fuqua, Rod Ruth, Jay Jackson, and Joe Sewell. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 240 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 16 #3
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 16 #3


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 40%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
  • Vol. 16 #5
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 16 #5


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 50%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Light tan to Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.
  • Vol. 16 #7
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 16 #7


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    Auction opens July 6
    • Water damage. Staple rust, rust migration.

    Volume 16, Issue 7 - July, 1942. 6.75" x 9.75", 276 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 16 #8
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 16 #8


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 60%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    August 1942. Cover by H. W. McCauley. Science fiction stories by G. H. Irwin, David Wright O'Brien (as 'John York Cabot'), Miles J. Breuer, Leroy Yerxa, John Russell Fearn, Henry Kuttner, Festus Pragnell, Jep Powell, and Nelson S. Bond. Illustrations by H. W. McCauley, Malcolm Smith, Ned Hadley, Robert Fuqua, Swan Studios, L. Raymond Jones, Jay Jackson, Russell Milburn, Joe Sewell, and Hugo Wolf. Back cover by James B. Settles. 7" x 10"; black and white; 242 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 16 #9
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 16 #9


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

    Sept 1942. Frond and back cover by James B. Settles. Stories by Robert Moore Williams "Blitz Against Japan", Nelson S. Bond, Gerald Vance, E. K. Jarvis, William P. McGivern, P. F. Costello, Max Overton, Dwight V. Swain, and G. H. Irwin. Illustrations by Robert Fuqua, Ned Hadley, L. Raymond Jones, R. B. Sharp, Brady, Russell Milburn, H. W. McCauley, Joe Sewell, and Hugo Wolf. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 240 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 16 #10
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 16 #10


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • 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: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.

    October 1942. Giant Size Issue. Cover by Malcolm Smith. Stories by Don Wilcox, Dwight V. Swain, Anton Reed, Ed Earl Repp, Nelson S. Bond, William P. McGivern, Thornton Ayre, and Leroy Yerxa. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John, Robert Fuqua, Robert Gibson Jones, Swan Studios, Russell Milburn, Magarian, Hugo Wolf, Jay Jackson, and Joe Sewell. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 240 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 16 #11
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 16 #11


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Paper: Off white
    • Cover Wrap Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Front cover detached 40%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 90%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.

    November 1942. Giant Size Issue. Cover by Robert Gibson Jones. Stories by Eando Binder, Robert Bloch, Raymond Z. Gallun, Emil Petaja, A.R. McKenzie, Duncan Farnsworth, Richard O. Lewis, Thornton Ayre, and H.B. Carlton. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John, Russell Milburn, L. Raymond Jones, William Panak, Brady, Harold Welch, Magarian, and Joe Sewell. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 240 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 16 #12
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 16 #12


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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
    • 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 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 60%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    December 1942. Giant Size Issue. Cover by J. Allen St. John. Stories by Howard Browne, Edmond Hamilton, Robert Moore Williams, Leroy Yerxa, Clark South, Chester S. Geier, Dwight V. Swain, and Gerald Vance. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John, Jay Jackson, Ned Hadley, Malcolm Smith, Robert Fuqua, Magarian, and Joe Sewell. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 240 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 17 #1
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 17 #1


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 70%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    January 1943. Giant Size Issue. Cover by J. Allen St. John. Science fiction stories by Robert Moore Williams, Clee Garson, P.F. Costello, John York Cabot, Gerald Vance, Howard Browne, Stanton A. Coblentz, Leroy Yerxa, and William P. McGivern. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John, Virgil Finlay, Rod Ruth, Brady, H.W. McCauley, Robert Fuqua, and Joe Sewell. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 240 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 17 #2
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 17 #2


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    Auction opens July 6
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Front cover detached. 3" cumulative spine split from top.

    February 1943. Giant Size Issue. Cover by J. Allen St. John. Stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs ("Skeleton Men of Jupiter"), Stanley G. Weinbaum (Part one of "The New Adam"), P.F. Costello, Leroy Yerxa, Stanton A. Coblentz, Dwight V. Swain, Robert Bloch (as Tarleton Fiske), and Jarry Jenkins Jr. Illustrations by St. John, Virgil Finlay, Rod Ruth, Magarian, Hadden, Ned Hadley, Robert Fuqua, and Joe Sewell. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 240 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 17 #3
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 17 #3


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

    March 1943. Giant Size Issue. Cover by Robert Fuqua. Stories by E. K. Jarvis ("The Metal Monster"), Stanley G. Weinbaum, Ed Earl Repp, David Wright O'Brien, David Wright O'Brien (as 'Clee Garson'), W. P. McGivern & David Wright O'Brien ("Victory from the Void"), Paul Miles, and Leroy Yerxa (as 'Lee Francis'). Illustrations by Frank R. Paul, Virgil Finlay, William Panak, Robert Fuqua, Jay Jackson, L. Raymond Jones, and Joe Sewell. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 240 newsprint pages Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 17 #4
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 17 #4


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    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Back cover missing.
    • Paper: Cream
    • 100% Spine split with amateur restoration.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 90%. Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front and Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    April 1943. Giant Size Issue. Cover by Robert Fuqua. Stories by Nelson S. Bond, Robert Bloch, A.R. McKenzie, Leroy Yerxa, Chester S. Geier, Russell Storm, Lee Francis, and David Wright O'Brien. Illustrations by H.R. Hammond, H.W. McCauley, Magarian, Frank R. Paul, Ned Hadley, Robert Fuqua, and Joe Sewell. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 240 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 17 #5
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 17 #5


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

    May 1943. Giant Size Issue. Cover by H.W. McCauley. Stories by Robert Moore Williams, Festus Pragnell, Richard O. Lewis, Nelson S. Bond, Ross Rocklynne, A.R. McKenzie, Leroy Yerxa, Edwin Benson, William McCown, and Alexander Blade. Illustrations by Robert Gibson Jones, H.W. McCauley, Malcolm Smith, Julian S. Krupa, Robert Fuqua, and Joe Sewell. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 240 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 17 #6
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 17 #6
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • 1 1/4" Cumulative spine split.
    • 4" Cumulative spine split. Tape on spine.

    June, 1943. Cover by Hadden. Stories by Gilbert Rae Sonbergh, Robert Moore Williams, Festus Pragnell, P.F. Costello, Bob Courtney, Don Wilcox, Emil Petaja, and Edwin Benson. Illustrations by Hadden, Rod Ruth, Magarian, H.W. McCauley, Julian S. Krupa, Robert Fuqua, and Joe Sewell. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 208 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 17 #7
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 17 #7


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    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

    July 1943. Cover by H.W. McCauley. Stories by Robert Moore Williams, Festus Pragnell, P.F. Costello, Don Wilcox, Helmar Lewis, A.R. McKenzie, and Frank Patton. Illustrations by Virgil Finlay, Julian, Malcolm Schmidt, Magarian, Ronald Clyne, Robert Fuqua, and Joe Sewell. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 208 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 17 #8
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 17 #8


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

    August 1943. Cover by Robert Fuqua. Stories by Frank Patton, Francis Wilson Powell, Henry Norton, Craig Ellis, William DeLisle, Lee Francis, and Leroy Yerxa. Illustrations by A.K. Bilder, Julian, Malcolm Smith, Ned Hadley, Hadden, H.W. McCauley, and Joe Sewell. 7" x 10"; black and white with color cover; 208 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 17 #9
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 17 #9


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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
    • 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
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • 100% spine split detaching front cover.

    Volume 17, Issue 9 - September, 1943. 6.75" x 9.5", 212 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 18 #1
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 18 #1


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    • Paper: White
    • Label #4387827001
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

    Jan 1944. Science fiction stories by William P. McGivern, Ross Rocklynne, P.F. Costello, Ed Earl Repp, Berkeley Livingston, and Gerald Vance. Illustrations by Ronald Clyne, Magarian, Robert Fuqua, and Julian S. Krupa. Cover by Fuqua. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 208 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 18 #2
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 18 #2


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 18, Issue 2 - March, 1944. Science fiction stories by Robert Bloch, Mort Weisinger (of DC Comics fame), Don Wilcox, Leroy Yerxa, Robert Moore Williams, Helmar Lewis, Ed Earl Repp, and Berkeley Livingston. This issue also contains a story, "The Superman," by Meyer Friedenson; it was the winning entry of a contest sponsored by the magazine. (One of the runner-ups was Eando Binder.) Illustrations by J. Allen St. John, Virgil Finlay, Hadden, Malcolm Smith, Magarian, and Robert Fuqua. Cover by St. John. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 214 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 18 #3
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 18 #3


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

    May 1944. Science fiction stories by Ray bradbury ("I, Rocket"), Edmond Hamilton, David V. Reed, Helmar Lewis, Emil Petaja, and Berkeley Livingston. Illustrations by Hadden, Arnold Kohn, Lew Meyer, Brady, Malcolm Smith, Julian S. Krupa, and Robert Fuqua. Cover by St. John. 7" x 10"; black and white; 210 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.

  • Vol. 18 #4
    Amazing Stories (1926-Present Experimenter) Pulp Vol. 18 #4


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

    September, 1944. Science fiction stories by Robert Moore Williams, William P. McGivern, David Wright O'Brien, P.F. Costello, E.K. Jarvis, Morris J. Steele, Gerald Vance, Russell Storm, William Lawrence Hamling, John York Cabot, and Duncan Farnsworth. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John, Julian S. Krupa, Magarian, Russell Milburn, Herbert McClure, A.K. Bilder, and Robert Fuqua. Cover by Krupa. 7-in. x 10-in.; black and white; 212 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.25.