Planet Stories

Publication & Issue Overview

Planet Stories Winter 1947 is Volume 3, Number 9 (Whole Issue #33) of the quarterly science fiction pulp magazine published by Love Romances Publishing, Inc., an imprint of Fiction House. The issue originally sold on newsstands for 20¢.

• Publication: Planet Stories

• Issue Date: Winter 1947

• Volume / Issue Code: Vol. 3, No. 9 (V3N9 / Whole #33)

• Publisher: Love Romances Publishing, Inc. (Fiction House)

• Original Cover Price: 20¢

Cover Artwork Details

The cover illustration was painted by American pulp artist Allen Gustav Anderson (1908–1995) and signed simply as "Anderson". It illustrates the issue's lead novella, "Black Priestess of Varda" by Erik Fennel.

Table of Contents

• "Black Priestess of Varda" by Erik Fennel (Featured Cover Story)

• "Earth Is Missing!" by Carl Selwyn

• "The Machine-Spoke" by Bryce Walton

• "The Star-Slaver" by Kenneth Putnam (William Tenn)

• "The Axolotl Special" by Robert Abernathy

• "The Incorrigible" by George O. Smith

• "The Running of the Zar" by Bill Garson