Out of this World Adventures, July 1950

Overview:

  • Title: Out of this World Adventures, July 1950
  • Author: Donald A. Wollheim
  • Year: 2008
  • ISBN-10: 9781440451034
  • Publisher: Altus Press
  • Price: $14.95
  • Pages: 130
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: The Discord Makers
  • Notes:
    • This is a print-on-demand facsimile reprint of the original pulp.
    • The original pulp printed their comic section in color, it is reprinted in black-and-white here.
    • All art is uncredited. Art that is credited is due to artist's signatures.
    • The comic stories authors and artists are mostly credited, and seem original to this volume.
    • The comic section is unpaginated, but the pages are counted in the page count. Stories pages are hand-counted.
    • Crom the Barbarian is credited as being the first Conanesque sword & sorcery comic story.
    • According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._M._Kornbluth Edward Bellin may be C. M. Kornbluth.
    • Page 119 has an advertisement for electric football, baseball and basketball games. Precursors, in 1950, to modern videogames?
    • According to website http://archive.org/details/OutOfThisWorldAdventuresIssue1 "Martin" may be James Martin.