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Title: Astounding Stories, April, 1931

Author: Various

Release Date: November 11, 2009 [EBook #30452]

Language: English

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ASTOUNDING

STORIES

20c

_On Sale the First Thursday of Each Month_

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

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_That_ the stories therein are clean, interesting, vivid, by leading
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_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
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VOL. VI, No. 1 CONTENTS APRIL, 1931

COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSO
_Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "Monsters of Mars."_

MONSTERS OF MARS EDMOND HAMILTON 4
_Three Martian-Duped Earth-Men Swing Open the Gates of Space That for
So Long Had Barred the Greedy Hordes of the Red Planet._
(A Complete Novelette.)

THE EXILE OF TIME RAY CUMMINGS 26
_From Somewhere Out of Time Come a Swarm of Robots Who Inflict on
New York the Awful Vengeance of the Diabolic