Startling Stories, March 1940
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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.