AMAZING (RICHARD S. SHAVER; EMIL PETAJA; BUZZ-BOLT ATOMCRACKER - AKA DON WILCOX; DON WILCOX) — Amazing Stories: May 1947

NY, Ziff-Davis. 1947. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 21, No. 5. Pulp magazine. Edited by Raymond A. Palmer. Cover art by James Teason for "A Letter from Richard S. Shaver". Includes "The Crystalline Sarcophagus" by Richard S. Shaver; "The Ancestral Thread" by Emil Petaja; "Confessions of a Mechanical Man" (novelet) by Buzz-Bolt Atomcracker [Don Wilcox]; "Desert of the Damned" (novel) by Don Wilcox. Features: "The Observatory"; "Vignettes of Famous Scientists" by ALexander Blade (house pseud.); "Economics - Science of Pretense?" by John McCabe Moore; "Plastic News" by Lawrence Foster; "India: Land of Mystery" by Jeffrey Stevens; "Scientific Mysteries" by L. Taylor Hansen; "Friendship and the Hormones" by Robert Lawson; "Monuments to Limitless Yesterdays" by John McCabe Moore; "Health Enemy Number One" by Robert J. Clayton; "What Man Can Imagine" by John McCabe Moore; "Radiations of Old Sol" by Joseph M. McIntyre; "Discussions"; "The Age of Specialization" by John McCabe Moore. Illustrated by Malcolm Smith, H. W. McCauley, Robert Fuqua, and Virgil Finlay. Letters from Shaver and others. Upper end has been wet and is stained with damage, small losses at upper rear as well, which is a shame as this was an otherwise very nice issue. Good to Very Good-.