Startling Stories, November 1939

Overview:

  • Title: Startling Stories, November 1939
  • Author: Mort Weisinger
  • Year: 1939
  • Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.
  • Price: $0.15
  • Pages: 132
  • Binding: pulp
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Title Reference: A Martian Odyssey
  • Notes:
    • Vol 2, No 3.
    • Page numbers run 3-130.
    • The Editor is not credited.
    • Cover art is not credited; the artwork shows no signature. Credit from Jack Williamson's Seventy-Five: The Diamond Anniversary of a Science Fiction Pioneer.
    • Interior art is not credited.
    • "Meet the Author: A New World" includes a photo of Williamson.
    • Story art for "The Fortress of Utopia" on pages 25, 35, and 41 is signed "HWesso"; that on page 47 is signed "HW"; that on pages 14-15, 17, 19, 21, 27, 31, and 53 shows no signature.
    • "The Conquest of the Impossible" includes a photo of Farley.
    • Story art for "Three Wise Men" on page 92 shows no signature.
    • Story art for "A Martian Odyssey" on page 106 is signed "Paul." A photo of the author is included on page 109.
    • "Thrills in Science" consists of several biographical essays: "The World Moves On" (Galileo de Galilei), "Laboratory Life" (Alessandro Volta), and "Racing Against Light!" (Albert Abraham Michelson).
    • "The Ether Vibrates" is a letters column.
    • "Science Question Box" is also a letters column, but deals only with science questions.