Publication: Planet Stories [UK], No 2

Publication: Planet Stories [UK], No 2Publication Record # 631429 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Paul L. Payne
Date: 1950-07-00
Publisher: Pemberton's
Price:
-/9^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: 68
Format:
pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
Type: MAGAZINE
Cover: Planet Stories [UK], No 2 by Allen Anderson (variant of Planet Stories, Spring 1950)
Notes: Publication date from Tymn & Ashley. Editor and cover artist from original magazine. Contents taken from the 1950 Spring Fall US issue with all the paratext, most of the artwork and three stories dropped. Note british ads and change of the order of stories.

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Contents (view Concise Listing)

2 • The Rocketeers Have Shaggy Ears • (1950) • interior artwork by Alden McWilliams
2 • The Rocketeers Have Shaggy Ears • (1950) • novella by Keith Bennett
20 • Flame-Jewel of the Ancients • (1950) • novella by Edwin L. Graber
48 • Forever and the Earth • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
55 • Madmen of Mars • (1950) • interior artwork by M. Elkan
55 • Madmen of Mars • (1950) • short story by Erik Fennel

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