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Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp comic books 1942-1944

  • 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.

    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: 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 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 10 #1


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Moderate.
    • Paper: Slightly britle
    • Front cover detached 20%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Book length crease on front cover, severe water damage. Front cover detached 15%. Back cover detached 60%. Staple rust: Moderate.

    Volume 10, Issue 1 - Fall 1943. Science fiction and adventure stories. This issue features "Pirates of the Time Trail" by Ross Rocklynne, and "The Space Dwellers" by Raymond Z. Gallun. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in., 128 pages, B&W. 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.