Startling Stories, January 1939
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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.