Astounding Stories of Super Science/Volume 01/Number 01
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| COVER DESIGN | H. W. Wessolowski | |
Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "The Beetle Horde."
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| EDITORIAL | The Editor | 7 |
An Introduction to a New and Unique Magazine.
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| THE BEETLE HORDE | Victor Rousseau | 8 |
Only Two Young Explorers Stand in the Way of the Mad Bram's Horrible Revenge—the Releasing of His Trillions of Man-sized Beetles upon an Utterly Defenseless World. (Part One of a Two-part Novel.)
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| THE CAVE OF HORROR | Captain S. P. Meek | 32 |
Screaming, the Guardsman Was Jerked Through the Air. An Unearthly Screech Rang Through the Cavern. The Unseen Horror of Mammoth Cave Had Struck Again!
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| PHANTOMS OF REALITY | Ray Cummings | 46 |
Red Sensua's Knife Came up Dripping—and the Two Adventurers Knew that Chaos and Bloody Revolution Had Been Unleashed in that Shadowy Kingdom of the Fourth Dimension. (A Complete Novel.)
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| THE STOLEN MIND | M. L. Staley | 75 |
What Would You Do, If, Like Quest, You Were Tricked, and Your Very Mind and Will Stolen from Your Body?
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| COMPENSATION | C. V. Tench | 92 |
Professor Wroxton Had Disappeared—But in the Bottom of the Mysterious Crystal Cage Lay the Diamond from His Ring!
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| TANKS | Murray Leinster | 100 |
Two Miles of American Front Had Gone Dead. And on Two Lone Infantrymen, Lost in the Menace of the Fog-gas and the Tanks, Depended the Outcome of the War of 1932.
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| INVISIBLE DEATH | Anthony Pelcher | 118 |
On Lees' Quick and Clever Action Depended the Life of "Old Perk" Ferguson, the Millionaire Manufacturer Threatened by the Uncanny, Invisible Killer.
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