Comet, May 1941

Overview:

  • Title: Comet, May 1941
  • Author: F. Orlin Tremaine
  • Year: 1941
  • Publisher: H-K Publications
  • Price: $0.20
  • Pages: 132
  • Binding: pulp
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Title Reference: Comet - 1940-1941
  • Notes:
    • Vol 1, No 4.
    • Page numbers run 1-128.
    • Cover art is credited to "Frank R. Paul"; the artwork is signed Paul."
    • Interior art is not credited for each story separately, but the contents page states "Illustrations by Paul, Forte, Mirando." Signatures confirm individual attributions.
    • Story art for "Ice Planet" on pages 4-5 is signed "Paul."
    • Story art for "The Facts of Life" on pages 25 is signed "Mirando."
    • Story art for "We Are One" on pages 34-35 is signed "John Forte."
    • Story art for "Derelicts of Uranus" on page 54 is signed "John Forte."
    • Story art for "When Time Rolled Back" on page 69 is signed "Mirando."
    • Story art for "The Ransom for Toledo" on pages 80-81 is signed "Mirando."
    • Story art for "Space Blackout" on page 105 is signed "John Forte."
    • Story art for "Into the Sun" on page 116 is signed "Mirando."
    • Story art for "Earth's Maginot Line" on page 119 is signed with a difficult-to-interpret monogram.
    • "New to Science-Fiction" is listed as "New to Science-Fiction (Editorial)" on the contents page.
    • "The Comet and Denver" announces a contest soliciting reader essays for "the person who overcomes the greatest handicap in order to attend" the 1941 Denvention.
    • "The Spacean" is described on the contents page as "a journal of interplanetary events and gossip." It is a fictional newsletter containing news flashes, future history items, and even fake advertisements.
    • "Rocket Mail" is a letters column.