Publication: Comet, July 1941

Publication: Comet, July 1941Publication Record # 516969
Editor: F. Orlin Tremaine
Date: 2015-01-21
ISBN: 978-1-5075-0605-9 [1-5075-0605-8]
Publisher: Pulp Tales Press
Price:
$12.95^?$: US dollar
Pages: 128
Format:
tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: Comet, July 1941 (1941) • by Leo Morey
Notes:
- This is a print-on-demand facsimile reprint of the fifth and last issue of the pulp magazine.
- No printing date, or price, for this facsimile anywhere in this magazine, date and price from Amazon.com as of 2015-05-24.
- Comet: Stories of Super Time and Space on the cover only. This magazine is called Comet only on the contents page and in the magazine's indicia.
- F. Orlin Tremaine is given editor's credit only on the lower left cover, see image, and then only as Orlin Tremaine.
- The following stories are advertised as to appear in the next issue: "Vanished Universe" by Nat Schachner, "The Imaginative Genius" by Richard O. Lewis, "A Legend of Mars" by Raymond van Houten, "The Kiss of Death" by Henry J. Kostkos, and "The Cat That Had Nine Lives" by Clifford D. Simak & Carl Jacobi. It is unknown if any of these were ever printed. The Simak & Jacobi story may have been a sequel to "The Street That Wasn't There". "A Legend of Mars" may have been printed as "The Last Martian".
- The Spacean is a faux five page newssheet, with faux advertisements. This is a non-fact essay.
- The uncredited letter's page artwork for "Space Mail" seems to be signed in the lower right hand corner by "HJR".
- Artists are given a group credit only on the contents page, and credit is given for each illustration per their signatures.

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Anthology Title: Comet, July 1941 • [Comet magazine reprints] • anthology by F. Orlin Tremaine

Contents (view Concise Listing)

1 • The Vortex Blaster • (1941) • interior artwork by John R. Forte, Jr. [as by Forte]
2 • The Vortex Blaster • [Vortex Blaster] • (1941) • short story by Edward E. Smith [as by E. E. Smith, Ph.D.]
10 • The Vortex Blaster [2] • (1941) • interior artwork by John R. Forte, Jr. [as by Forte]
18 • The Street That Wasn't There • (1941) • short story by Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. Simak (variant of The Lost Street)
18 • The Street That Wasn't There • (1941) • interior artwork by John R. Forte, Jr. [as by Forte]
28 • The Devil's Asteroid • (1941) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
28 • The Devil's Asteroid • (1941) • interior artwork by Leo Morey
46 • The Sky Trap • (1941) • short story by Frank Belknap Long
46 • The Sky Trap • (1941) • interior artwork by uncredited
56 • A World Is Born • [Mercury (Brackett)] • (1941) • short story by Leigh Brackett
56 • A World is Born • (1941) • interior artwork by John R. Forte, Jr. [as by Forte]
62 • The Beast of Space • (1941) • interior artwork by Mirando
71 • The Spacean: June 2,009—Vol. XXI No. 5 • [The Spacean] • (1941) • short story by Nelson Tremaine [as by uncredited]
75 • The Indulgence of Negu Mah • (1941) • short story by Robert Arthur
75 • The Indulgence of Negu Mah • (1941) • interior artwork by Leo Morey
82 • The Beast of Space • (1941) • short story by F. E. Hardart
90 • The 4-D Doodler • (1941) • short story by Graph Waldeyer
90 • The 4-D Doodler • (1941) • interior artwork by John R. Forte, Jr. [as by Forte]
100 • The Whispering Spheres • (1941) • short story by R. R. Winterbotham
100 • The Whispering Spheres • (1941) • interior artwork by John R. Forte, Jr. [as by Forte]
117 • The Bell-Tone • (1941) • interior artwork by Mirando
117 • The Bell-Tone • (1941) • short story by Edmund H. Leftwich
120 • The Ultimate Experiment • (1941) • short story by Thornton DeKy
120 • The Ultimate Experiment • (1941) • interior artwork by Mirando
123 • The Door to Tomorrow • [Editorial (Comet)] • (1941) • essay by F. Orlin Tremaine [as by The Editor]
124 • Rocket Mail (Comet, July 1941) • [Rocket Mail (Comet)] • (1941) • essay by various
124 • Letter (Comet, July 1941): Dr. Smith Explains "Inertialess Collisions" • (1941) • essay by Edward E. Smith [as by Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.]
125 • Letter (Comet, July 1941): Real Praise! • (1941) • essay by Tom Wright
126 • Letter (Comet, July 1941): Asimov to Brown • [Letters: Isaac Asimov] • (1941) • essay by Isaac Asimov
126 • Letter (Comet, July 1941): S-F Likes to Do the Impossible • (1941) • essay by Philip A. Schumann
127 • Letter (Comet, July 1941): Mirando in the Army • (1941) • essay by James V. Taurasi

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Publication: Comet, July 1941

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