| Year : |
May/June 1934
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| Book No. : |
None
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| Edition : |
1st
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| Format : |
Periodical (Pulp Magazine)
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| Pages : |
128
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| Cover art : |
Rudolph Belarski
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| Illustrations : |
Unknown
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"Guns
of the Mountains"
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Non-REH Content
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"The Cloth of Command" by
Captain Frederick Moore
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"Snake Tracks"
by Eugene Cunningham
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"The Evil
Eye" by· Theodore Roscoe
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"The Blizzard
Patrol" by Chart Pitt
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"I Bury the
Dead" by Walt Coburn
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"Devil on
Wings" by John Starr
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"Rawhide" by James P. Olsen
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"World Adventurers"
(Letter column)
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Edited
by J. F. Byrne
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At the Glenn Lord
estate auction at the 2018 Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention a variant
cover for Action Stories Volume 12 Number 8 was discovered. A cover dated
May-June 1934 on both the cover and the spine was part of the Glenn Lord
estate auction. Show runner Doug Ellis revealed his personal copy of Action
Stories Volume 12 Number 8 was dated June 1934 on both the cover and the
spine. A comparison revealed that inside on the table of contents, both issues
were dated June 1934 and the interior contents were identical.
The best guess to explain this is that one version was a mistake, which
was corrected mid-print-run. Rather than destroy the misdated issues--which
means eating the cost--the publisher let both versions go out. If it had been
a worse mistake, maybe the decision would have been different.
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