Item #1554 Famous Fantastic Mysteries Vol. V, No. 5 December, 1943 (GGA, R is for Rocket). Mary Gnaedinger, Ray Bradbury.

Famous Fantastic Mysteries Vol. V, No. 5 December, 1943 (GGA, R is for Rocket)

New York: All-Fiction Field, 1943. Stevens. Paperback. Side-stapled pulp digest in illustrated wraps, 8vo (9-3/8 inches tall), pp. 146, illustrated. Cover with light rubs, creases and short closed edge tears, text toned. Front cover with "ALL STORIES IN THIS ISSUE ARE EITHER NEW OR HAVE NEVER BEFORE APPEARED IN A MAGAZINE" printed at foot, breaking from the FFM norm of using mostly reprints in their publication. About Near Fine. Item #1554

Good Girl Artwork, showing an unsuccessful panther attack on a leopard-skin clad beauty, done by Stevens, a house artists of the time. One of the first issues to be published by the new owners, All-Fiction Field, who published FFM from Mar 1943 - Jul 1951. This issue also contains an original publication by Ray Bradbury, King of the Gray Spaces - his first with FFM, later re-titled R is for Rocket. Ref. Tuck, p. 63.

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