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Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp comic books 1948

  • Vol. 16 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 16 #3


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 10%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 25%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Back cover detached 40%. Front Cover Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 30%. Back cover detached 30%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 16, Issue 3 - January, 1948. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories: "The Blue Flamingo" by Hannes Bok, "The Conquest of Two Worlds" by Edmond Hamilton, "Aleph Sub One" by Margaret St. Clair, "Ultra Evolution" by Polton Cross, and "Guaranteed" by E. Everett Evans. 6.75" x 9.75", 118 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.15.

  • Vol. 17 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 17 #1


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 20%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 17, Issue 1 - March, 1948. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Wesley Long, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, James Blish, Carter Sprague, and R.C. W. Ettinger. Four Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 148 pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Vol. 17 #2
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 17 #2


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    • Paper: Off white
    • Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Slight. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Off white

    Volume 17, Issue 2 - May, 1945. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Paul Ernst, Arthur Leo Zagat, Ray Cummings, Frank Belknap Long, Robert Moore Williams, George O. Smith, and John Russell Fearn. Nine Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 150 pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Vol. 17 #3
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 17 #3


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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Slight.
    • Paper: Cream
    • Front cover detached 10%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Moderate.

    July 1948. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton, L. Ron Hubbard, Jack Vance, Margaret St. Clair, and Walt Sheldon. Six Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 150 pages. Cover price $0.20.

  • Vol. 18 #1
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 18 #1


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    • Paper: Cream
    • Paper: Off white
    • Paper: Off white
    • Front cover detached 5%. Back cover detached 5%. Water damage: Extensive. Staple rust: Extensive.
    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Front cover detached 15%. Back Cover Detached. Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    Volume 18, Issue 1 - September, 1948. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Fredric Brown, P. Schuyler Miller, Dorothy and John de Camp, John D. MacDonald, and Jack Vance. Virgil Finlay illustration. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 170 pages. Cover price $0.20.

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    $400 Startling Stories 1948 September, #52. CGC 5.5. Good girl art cover. Pulp

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  • Vol. 18 #2
    Startling Stories (1939-1955 Better Publications) Pulp Vol. 18 #2


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    • Trimmed
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Water damage: Moderate. Staple rust: Slight.

    In this issue, packed with so many outstanding writers, for the first time Arthur C. Clarke's science-fiction classic, "Against the Fall of Night," plus "The Visitor" by Ray Bradbury

    Volume 18, Issue 2 - November, 1948. Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Stories by Arthur C. Clarke, Festus Bragnell, Robert Moore Williams, Frank Belknap Moore, A.E. Van Vogt, John D. MacDonald, Ray Bradbury, and Jack Vance. Two Virgil Finlay illustrations. 6.75-in. x 9.75-in.; black and white; 180 pages. Cover price $0.25.