Wonder Stories, October 1935

Overview:

• Title: Wonder Stories, October 1935
• Author: Hugo Gernsback
• Year: 1935
• Publisher: Continental Publications
• Price: $0.15
• Pages: 132
• Binding: pulp
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Title Reference: The Sex Serum
• Notes:
  • Page numbers run 513-640.
  • Contents page states publication on the 1st of the preceding month.
  • Cover illustrates "The Cosmic Pantograph."
  • Cover art is credited to and signed "Paul."
  • Interior art is credited at the start of each story.
  • Story art for "The Perfect World (Part 1 of 3)" on page 518 is credited to and signed "Paul."
  • Prize Winners" gives the results of the July 1935 cover story contest. Winners inclde Kenneth Sterling, Thomas S. Gardner, and John B. Michel.
  • Story art for "The Cosmic Pantograph" on page 554 is credited to and signed "Paul."
  • Story art for "Martian Gesture" on page 560 is credited to and signed "Schneeman."
  • Story art for "The Sex Serum" on page 588 is credited to "Winter"; the artwork is signed "Lumen Winter." Page 596 reproduces two short newspaper articles.
  • Story art for "World of the Mist (Part 2 of 2)" on page 602 is credited to and signed "Paul."
  • "What Is Your Science Knowledge?" is a list of questions about science facts. With each is listed the story page number on which the answer can be found.
  • "The Science Fiction League" is a monthly department that discusses news related to or of interest to the club. It includes correspondence from readers.
  • Ferguson's and Blish's essays are published in "The Science Fiction League." They are partial responses to the Second Science Fiction Test published in the July 1935 issue.
  • "The Reader Speaks" is a letters column.
  • "The Slithering Horror" is a letter in "The Reader Speaks" but is a very short work of fiction. According to Schwartz/Weisinger, Postlethwaite is the pseudonym of Kenneth Sterling.
  • "Science Questions and Answers" is also a letters feature, but deals more narrowly with science questions.