Comet Stories July 1941

It is a rare occasion that an entire Pulp magazine ends up online. But Comet Stories for July 1941 is the exception. This issue included:

"The Vortex Blaster" by Edward E. Smith
"The Street That Wasn't There" by Clifford D. Simak & Carl Jacobi
"The Devil's Asteroid" by Manly Wade Wellman
"The Sky Trap" by Frank Belknap Long
"A World is Born" by Leigh Brackett (Cover story)
"The Indulgence of Negu Mah" by Robert Arthur
"The Beast of Space" by F. E. Hardart
"The 4-D Doodler" by Graph Waldeyer
"The Whispering Spheres" by R. R. Winterbotham
"The Bell-Tone" by Edmund H. Leftwich
"The Ultimate Experiment" by Thornton DeKy

Here are some classic stories! "The Devil's Asteroid" reminds me of a story Leigh Brackett wrote later called "The Beast-Jewel of Mars" (Planet Stories, Winter 1948). Oddly, Brackett is in the same issue with "A World Is Born". If you don't recognize Robert Arthur, he was the man who would later write The Three Investigators series and edit many Alfred Hitchcock anthologies.

GW

G. W. Thomas has been published since 1987. He has appeared in over 400 publications including Writer's Digest, The Writer and Black October Magazine. His website is www.gwthomas.org