Science Wonder Quarterly, Spring 1930
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Overview:
- Title: Science Wonder Quarterly, Spring 1930
- Author: Hugo Gernsback
- Year: 1930
- Publisher: Stellar Publishing Corporation
- Price: $0.50
- Pages: 148
- Binding: bedsheet
- Type: MAGAZINE
- Title Reference: The Mad Destroyer
- Notes:
- Page numbers run 289-432.
- Contents page states publication on 15 March.
- Cover illustrates "The Stone from the Moon."
- Cover art is not credited; the artwork shows no signature. Cover artist taken from Bleiler G, magazine section, pg 579. Miller/Contento lists as (?).
- Interior art is credited below each art item.
- An opening essay on page 293 describes the "What I Have Done to Spread Science Fiction" contest announced in the Fall 1929 issue of Science Wonder Quarterly. This issue includes the three second-round winners, with their submissions following this essay. Raymond A. Palmer was awarded the First Prize of $100.00; Conrad H. Ruppert was awarded the Second Prize of $50.00, and Allen Glasser won the Third Prize of $20.00. Their letters are entered here as "prize winner."
- Story art for "The Stone from the Moon" is credited to "Paul." Art on pages 294, 303, 350, 353, and 356 is signed "Paul"; that on pages 310-311, 327, 332, 336, 346, and 357 shows no signature. The diagram on page 342 is uncredited and unsigned.
- Story art for "Within the Planet" on page 360 is credited to "Leonard"; the artwork shows no signature.
- Story art for "Via the Hewitt Ray" on page 370 is credited to "Winter"; the artwork shows no signature.
- Story art for "The Mechanical Bloodhound" on page 384 is credited to "Ruger"; the artwork is signed "Jno Ruger."
- Story art for "The Ape Cycle" on page 388 is credited to "Winter"; the artwork is signed "KAW.".
- Story art for "The Mad Destroyer" on page 406 is credited to "Ruger"; the artwork shows no signature.
- Story art for "The Thought Materializer" in page 414 is credited to and signed "Paul."
- Drawn portraits (uncredited) of the authors appear with each story; they are unsigned except for those of Gail, Arnold, and Pratt which are signed "B."
- "The Reader Speaks" is a letters column.