The Kingslayer

Overview:

  • Title: The Kingslayer
  • Author: L. Ron Hubbard
  • Year: 1949
  • Publisher: Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Price: $3.00
  • Pages: 208
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Kingslayer
  • Notes:
    • "Fantasy Publishing Co., Inc" over "Los Angeles 1949" on title page
    • This printing is a perfect bound paperback with a reddish brown cover, unlike the hardcover in blue. The dust jack seems to be identical to the one for the hardcover, including the price.
    • "Copyright 1949 by Fantasy Publishing Co., Inc."
    • Contento lists "Kingslayer" as a novel.
    • "Daddy!" by Jack L. Chalker in Fantasy Newsletter No. 61, August 1983 names Neal Austin as the cover artist.
    • Chalker also reports that 1500 copies were printed, but only 1200 bound; the other 300 were later bound into From Death to the Stars, 1953.