Comet, December 1940

Overview:

  • Title: Comet, December 1940
  • Author: Orlin Tremaine
  • Year: 2013
  • ISBN-10: 9781936720705
  • Publisher: Pulp Tales Press
  • Price: $15.00
  • Pages: 130
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: The Primal City
  • Notes:
    • This is a print-on-demand facsimile reprint of the first issue of the pulp magazine.
    • No exact printing date fore this facsimile reprint anywhere in this magazine.
    • Comet: Stories of Super Time and Space on the cover only. This magazine is called Comet only on the contents page and in the magazine's indicia.
    • F. Orlin Tremaine is given editor's credit only on the lower left cover, see image, and then only as Orlin Tremaine.
    • The Spacean is a faux five page newssheet, with faux advertisements. This is a non-fact essay.
    • "The Oversight" is listed on the contents page as "The Oversight—".
    • The uncredited piece of artwork for "Lord of the Silent Death" is unsigned, but may be by "Lennarts", who is given an artist's credit on the contents page, but who has signed none of his work.
    • The editor uses "FOT" in the letter column and has been credited his full name in this record.
    • The uncredited letter's page artwork for "Space Mail" seems to be signed in the lower right hand corner by "HJR".
    • Artists are given a group credit only on the contents page, and credit is given for each illustration per their signatures.
    • Issues were originally $0.20 in 1940.
    • No price listed anywhere on or in this facsimile. Price from Amazon.com as of 2013-10-16.