Startling Stories, September 1940
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Overview:
- Title: Startling Stories, September 1940
- Author: Mort Weisinger
- Year: 1940
- Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.
- Price: $0.15
- Pages: 132
- Binding: pulp
- Type: MAGAZINE
- Title Reference: The World Without
- Notes:
- Vol 4, No 2.
- Page numbers run 3-130.
- The Editor is not credited.
- Cover art is credited "E. K. Bergey"; the artwork shows no signature.
- Cover illustrates "The Kid from Mars."
- Interior art is not credited.
- Story art for "The Kid from Mars" on pages 12-13, 21, 27, and 45 is signed "Alex Schomburg"; that on pages 15, 17, 31, 37, 38, 41, 53, and 56 shows no signature.
- "The Ally of Science," a guest editorial, includes a drawn portrait of Barnes.
- Story art for "The World Without" on page 91 is signed "M Marchioni."
- Story art for "The Machine That Had No Flaws" on page 106 is signed "Marchioni."
- Story art for "Kingdom of the Ants" on page 113 is signed "Virgil Finlay."
- "Meet the Author: Eastward Ho!" includes a photo of Friend.
- "Thrills in Science" consists of several biographical essays: "The Mystery Man of Science" (Orffyreus), "The Unfinished Experiment" (Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier), and "The Birth of an Element" (Henri Becquerel).
- "The Ether Vibrates" is a letters column.
- "Science Question Box" is also a letters column, but deals only with science questions.