If you appreciate an attractive female back, that's a nice Earle Bergey cover on this issue of THRILLING WONDER STORIES. The contents look to be pretty good, too, with stories by Ray Bradbury, Leigh Brackett, John D. MacDonald, Frank Belknap Long, George O. Smith, Arthur J. Burks, and Noel Loomis. An all-star issue, for sure, except . . . nobody thought of it like that at the time. Those authors were just hard-working professional pulpsters, trying to make a living. My heroes.
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Readers even complained about the cover art. Now a Bergey original cover painting brings very high bids at auctions. STARTLING and THRILLING WONDER were excellent SF magazines during the Sam Merwin and Sam Mines era of 1945-1954.
Issues are not rare and can be found for $10 or so.
I've been trying to pick up John D's early stories in the pulps.
Do you know what story is in here from MacDonald?
The JDM is a short story called "That Mess Last Year". As far as I can tell, it's never been reprinted.
And not one of the two TWSes posted on UNZ.org for that year...
http://www.unz.org/Pub/ThrillingWonder-1948
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