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. Tanning; short tears at heel; small loss at upper frotn foredge corner; spine sunned with edgewear; creasing; standard edge wear and tear. Good+ to Very Good-.