SUPER SCIENCE STORIES OCTOBER 1942. VERY RARE AND IN GREAT SHAPE

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SUPER SCIENCE STORIES OCTOBER 1942. VERY RARE AND IN GREAT SHAPE:
$14.50

Super Science Stories for October 1942.Pulp, with 15¢ cover price. This is the secondof the Canadian \"reprint\" issues. These Canadian issues are very rare. Although they are reprint editions, many have new cover artwork.
Collector\'s Note: [copied from Wikipedia, which has an excellent article covering the U.S., Canadian, and British editions of Super Science Stories]Canadian and British of the Canadian edition ofSuper Science Stories, showing
volume/issue number. Alden H. Norton was editor throughout.

In 1940, as part of the War Exchange Conservation Act, Canada banned the import of pulp magazines. Popular launched a Canadian edition ofAstonishing Storiesin January 1942, which lasted for three bimonthly issues and reprinted two issues ofAstonishingand one issue ofSuper Science Stories. With the August 1942 issue the name was changed toSuper Science Stories, and the numeration was begun again at volume 1 number 1; as a result the magazine is usually listed by bibliographers as a separate publication from the CanadianAstonishing, but in many respects it was a direct continuation. The price was 15cents throughout; it lasted for 21regular bimonthly issues in a single volume; the last issue was dated December 1945. It was published by Popular Publications\' Toronto branch, and the editor was listed as Alden H. Norton.

Each issue of the Canadian edition corresponded to one issue of eitherAstonishingorSuper Science: for example, the first two Canadian issues drew their contents from the February 1942Super Science Storiesand the June 1942Astonishing, respectively. This pattern continued for ten issues. The next issue, dated April 1944, contained several reprints from the US editions, but also included two original stories that had not appeared anywhere before—these had been acquired for the US magazine and remained in inventory. A total of eleven of these original stories appeared in the CanadianSuper Science Stories. Later issues of the magazine also saw many reprints fromFamous Fantastic Mysteries;in tacit acknowledgement of the new source of material, the title was changed toSuper Science and Fantastic Storiesfrom the December 1944 issue.The artwork was mostly taken from Popular\'s US magazines but some new art appeared, probably by Canadian artists. There was no other Canadian presence: the letters page, for example, contained letters from the US edition.

Condition: Very Good. Front cover has minor edge ware along the right edge and the bottom overhang, plus several short closed tears. Rear cover and spine paper in outstanding condition.
Contents:

4 • Storm Cloud on Deka • [Vortex Blaster] • (1942) • novelette by Edward E. Smith
23 • The Impossible Invention • (1942) • shortstory by Robert Moore Williams
32 • The Crystal Circe • (1942) • novella by Henry Kuttner
50 • Out of the Sea • (1942) • shortstory by Leigh Brackett
73 • The Unseen Blushers • (1942) • shortstory by Alfred Bester
79 • The Band Played On • (1942) • shortstory by C. Shook

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