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I've posted this elsewhere, but it seems too perfect a fit for an Atomic Age DC thread to not share here as well.  Picked up at ECCC last week.
 

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I've posted this elsewhere, but it seems too perfect a fit for an Atomic Age DC thread to not share here as well.  Picked up at ECCC last week.
 

And here we have the last "Anson MacDonald" story.  Campbell had mentioned both writers... Heinlein and MacDonald... were busy with the war effort, and wouldn't be contributing much if any new material until that was resolved. 

Part one of "Beyond this Horizon" by "Anson MacDonald".

This one, the writers include "Anson MacDonald" with the cover story; Robert Heinlein with "Common Sense"; and Asimov, Sturgeon, and L. Sprague de Camp.  I believe this is the last pre-war story that appeared under Heinlein's own name; although we've got quite a few more issues to cover.

And here's a candidate for the single issue of a SF pulp with the largest number of flat-out classic stories.  Heinlein pulls out a single use pseudonym, so "Caleb Saunders" has "Elsewhere"; more commonly reprinted as "Elsewhen".  Asimov has the famous cover story; which the Science Fiction Writers of America voted the best SF story prior to the founding of the Nebula Awards in 1965.  Alfred Bester has "Adam and No Eve", another classic.  And Heinlein finishes off "Methuselah's Children".  This is another story that was significantly expanded for the book version; to the point where it's quite noticeable even without the versions side by side.

In addition to the first part of "Methuselah's Children", this issue has "Anson MacDonald" with "We also Walk Dogs", which was later included in the Future History collections, unlike the rest of the MacDonald pieces.  Alfred Bester and A. E. Von Vogt also have stories in this one.

To repeat my earlier statement:  Frazetta for the win, even if he didn't do the cover:

Or, for even more win, Frazetta.  And Toth.  And Finlay.  And Infantino.  And good grief am I happy to have a copy of this one:

And here "John Riverside", another single-use pseudonym, gives us "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag".  I'm guessing the name was used since Campbell was out of material from Heinlein and MacDonald.  This one, in addition to the cover authors, has stories by Hannes Bok and Malcolm Jameson, a good issue to end this little run through Heinlein's pre-war writing.
I hope people have enjoyed this little display of books, I for one find it very interesting to see how stories we later see in collections originally actually appeared.

And here's "Lyle Monroe" again with "Pied Piper", the second rarest Heinlein story.  It comes in second because, unlike the Future issue, there was a Canadian edition of this issue a couple months later, but otherwise it's only appeared again in the same two collections as "My Object All Sublime".  This was the next to last use of the "Lyle Monroe" name; it was used in 1951 on a reprint of "Columbus Was a Dope".  Oddly enough, that story was first published under Heinlein's real name in Startling Stories in 1947; I have no clue why the reprint used the pseudonym.

Here we have another "Lyle Monroe" story; this time "Lost Legion", better known as "Lost Legacy".  Unlike many of the Lyle Monroe stories, Heinlein had this in a collection under his own name as early as 1953.  ISFDB says there was a brief excerpt of the story in the previous issue's "Next Issue" page, but I haven't seen that issue.
The other story of note in this one is "Pendulum", which Ray Bradbury wrote with Henry Hasse.  It's Bradbury's first professional publication.
I'll post the last 7 issues tomorrow.  (Well, later today.  I'm up crazily late for some reason tonight.)

The last professionally published pre-war Heinlein story I needed.  (The qualifiers keep me from going crazy looking for a copy of Futuria Fantasia 4, and I'm still missing a couple book reviews.)  Would rather it wasn't trimmed, but still happy to have it.
Anybody interesting in me sharing the covers of all the pulps with pre-war Heinlein?

Triad (or Triplicate Girl, for old school Legion of Super-Heroes fans).  I try to let the artists pick who they want to draw in my Legion themed sketchbook, and this was Adam's choice:
 

A few more from ECCC:

I felt exactly the same way, so I did a few years ago:

The last professionally published pre-war Heinlein story I needed.  (The qualifiers keep me from going crazy looking for a copy of Futuria Fantasia 4, and I'm still missing a couple book reviews.)  Would rather it wasn't trimmed, but still happy to have it.
Anybody interesting in me sharing the covers of all the pulps with pre-war Heinlein?

ASM #96 is one of the last books I would ever let go, despite my copy being fairly low grade.

Not a high grade copy, but I'm in the club.  And I've got a hunch it's going to get quite a bit harder to join over the next year as the character returns to Marvel:

Not a high grade copy, but I'm in the club.  And I've got a hunch it's going to get quite a bit harder to join over the next year as the character returns to Marvel:

Or, for even more win, Frazetta.  And Toth.  And Finlay.  And Infantino.  And good grief am I happy to have a copy of this one:

Or, for even more win, Frazetta.  And Toth.  And Finlay.  And Infantino.  And good grief am I happy to have a copy of this one:

To repeat my earlier statement:  Frazetta for the win, even if he didn't do the cover:

Another ECCC find.  Clearly just a reader, but I'll take it happily: