Startling Stories, March 1940

Overview:

  • Title: Startling Stories, March 1940
  • Author: Mort Weisinger
  • Year: 1940
  • Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.
  • Price: $0.15
  • Pages: 132
  • Binding: pulp
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Title Reference: Guinea Pig, Ph.D.
  • Notes:
    • Vol 3, No 2.
    • Page numbers run 3-130.
    • The Editor is not credited.
    • Cover art is not credited; the artwork shows no signature.
    • Interior art is not credited.
    • "Meet the Author: Autobiographical Note" includes a photo of Kuttner.
    • Story art for "When New York Vanished" on pages 14-15, 27, 31, 39, 45, and 51 is signed "Alex Schomburg"; that on pages 17, 20, and 23 is signed "AS."
    • "Science and Reality," a guest editorial, includes a photo of Wellman.
    • Story art for "Station Death" on page 106 is signed "JDP" in monogram style, with the "P" central and larger, and "J" and "D" to either side.
    • Story art for "Guinea Pig, Ph.D." on page 116 is signed "Marchioni."
    • "Prize-Winning Letters" presents the first-prize winner for the story contest based on the September 1939 cover art. The letter is a short fictional work, and is preceded by an editorial introduction.
    • "Thrills in Science" consists of several biographical essays: "Molecule Hunter" (Jean Baptiste Perrin), "The Eighth Planet" (John Couch Adams), and "The Camera Never Lies" (Eadweard Muybridge, spelled Edward Muybridge in this essay).
    • "The Ether Vibrates" is a letters column.
    • "Science Question Box" is also a letters column, but deals only with science questions.