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Title: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930

Author: Various

Release Date: December 17, 2009 [EBook #30691]

Language: English

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ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE

_On Sale the First Thursday of Each Month_

W. M. CLAYTON, Publisher
HARRY BATES, Editor
DR. DOUGLAS M. DOLD, Consulting Editor

The Clayton Standard on a Magazine Guarantees

_That_ the stories therein are clean, interesting, vivid, by leading
writers of the day and purchased under conditions approved by the
Authors' League of America;

_That_ such magazines are manufactured in Union shops by American
workmen;

_That_ each newsdealer and agent is insured a fair profit;

_That_ an intelligent censorship guards their advertising pages.

_The other Clayton magazines are_:

ACE-HIGH MAGAZINE, RANCH ROMANCES, COWBOY STORIES, CLUES, FIVE NOVELS
MONTHLY, ALL STAR DETECTIVE STORIES, RANGELAND LOVE STORY MAGAZINE,
WESTERN ADVENTURES, and WESTERN LOVE STORIES.

_More than Two Million Copies Required to Supply the Monthly Demand for
Clayton Magazines._

VOL. IV, No. 3 CONTENTS DECEMBER, 1930

COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSOLOWSKI

_Painted in Oils from a Scene in "The Ape-Men of Xlotli."_

SLAVES OF THE DUST SOPHIE WENZEL ELLIS 295

_Fate's Retribution Was Adequate. There Emerged a Rat with a
Man's Head and Face._

THE PIRATE PLANET CHARLES W. DIFFIN 310

_It is War. Interplanetary War. And on Far-Distant Venus Two
Fighting Earthlings Stand Up Against a Whole Planet Run Amuck._
(Part Two of a Four-Part Novel.)

THE SEA TERROR CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK 336

_The Trail of Mystery Gold Leads Carnes and Dr. Bird to a
Tremendous Monster of the Deep._

GRAY DENIM HARL VINCENT