Startling Stories, January 1939

Overview:

  • Title: Startling Stories, January 1939
  • Author: Mort Weisinger
  • Year: 1939
  • Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.
  • Price: $0.15
  • Pages: 132
  • Binding: pulp
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Title Reference: The Eternal Man
  • Notes:
    • Vol 1, No 1.
    • Page numbers run 3-130.
    • The Editor is not credited.
    • Cover art is not credited; the artwork shows no signature. Credit from Robinson, Weinberg and Broecker's Art of Imagination.
    • Interior art is not credited.
    • Story art for "The Black Flame" on pages 16-17, 29, 33, 49 is signed "HWesso"; that on pages 20, 21, 23, 37, 43 shows no signature.
    • Story art for "The Eternal Man" on page 100 is signed "Paul."
    • Story art for "Science Island" on page 112 is signed "HWesso."
    • "Forecast for Coming Issues" is a preview of thet next issue.
    • "Thrills in Science" consists of several biographical essays: "The Life-Secret of Mice and Men" (Joseph Priestley), "Fate Reveals the Magic Ray" (Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen), "Dr. Pettenkofer's Strange Meal" (Robert Koch), and "A Columbus of Space" (Jeremiah Horrocks).
    • "The Ether Vibrates" is a letters column.
    • "Science Question Box" is also a letters column, but deals only with science questions.