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Amazing Stories Box Lot 159 Pulps 1928-63

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Amazing Stories Box Lot 159 Pulps 1928-63
<B>Amazing Stories 5-Box Lot (Ziff-Davis, 1928-63).</B></I> This set of five full short boxes features a nice cross-section of the classic, influential sci-fi pulp series. The included issues are: June 1928 (bedsheet format; first published story by Harl Vincent); November 1938 (Stanley G. Weinbaum cover); May, June, July, August (Robert Bloch story), November, and December 1939; January, February, March, May, June, and September 1940; January (dinosaurs vs. battleship cover by J. Allen St. John), March, April (Bloch story), July, August, September and November 1943; January, March (Bloch story, St. John cover), May ("I, Rocket" by Ray Bradbury), and September 1944; March ("I Remember Lemuria" by Richard Shaver; first appearance of the Shaver Mysteries), June (Robert Gibson Jones cover), September (Jones cover), and December ("Let Freedom Ring," first published story by Rog Phillips; Jones good girl cover) 1945; February ("The Final Victim" by Ray Bradbury and Henry Hasse; "The Shaver Mystery" by Phillips), May, June, July ("Chrysalis" by Ray Bradbury; good girl cover by Walter Parke), August (H. W. McCauley cover), September, October, November (good girl cover by Arnold Kohn), and December 1946; January, February, March, April, May, June (special "Shaver Mystery" issue), July, August, September, October, November, and December 1947; January, February, March (classic good girl cover by Jones), April (classic Jones good girl cover), May ("Proof of the Shaver Mystery," by Ray Palmer), July, August (classic Jones good girl cover), October, and November 1948; January (classic dinosaur cover by St. John), February, March, April, June, July, August, September, November (classic bondage cover by Kohn), and December 1949 ("Outpost," first published story by Marion Zimmer Bradley; good girl cover by R. G. Jones); January, February, April, May (Bloch story), June (August Derleth story), July, August (Fredric Brown story), September, October (Brown story), November, and December 1950; January ("The Devil, You Say?", first published story by Charles Beaumont), February ("the Boy Who Cried Wolf 359"), March, April, May, June, July, and September 1951; January (good girl cover by Norm Saunders), February, March, April, May, June, August, September (classic cover by Walter Popp), October, November, and December 1952, January (2 copies), February, March (last pulp-format issue), April-May (first digest-sized issue, Richard Matheson and Robert Heinlein stories), June-July, and October-November 1953 (Matheson story); March, May (Philip K. Dick story), July (Dick story), September, and November 1954; March (Bloch story), May, July, November, and December 1955; March, April (30th anniversary issue), May, August, October, November, and December 1956; January, February, June, September, and October 1957; January, February, April, May, June (Bloch story), and December 1958; January, March, April, May, June (title changes to <B>Amazing Science Fiction</B></I>), July, October, and December 1959; January, February, June, July, August, November, and December 1962; and March, April, May, June, August, September, October, November (2 copies - "Savage Pellucidar" Rice Burroughs; Piers Anthony story), and December 1963. The pulp issues grade an average of VG, while the later digest-format issues average FN. A number of the issues from 1956-59 feature stories by Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick, and J. G. Ballard. Approximate Bookery's Guide to Pulps value for group = $1,700.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Comics Box - Full, Short (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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