Planet of the Knob Heads [in] Science Fiction Vol I, No. 5, December 1939
COBLENTZ, Stanton A.
Planet of the Knob Heads [in] Science Fiction Vol I, No. 5, December 1939
New York: Blue Ribbon, 1939
8vo., decorative coloured and glued card wraps featuring a semi-clad woman astride a humanoid robot being attacked by men on motorbikes with what look like laser pistols; I.C.S. advertisement to the lower cover; pp. [i], 2-96, printed on newspaper-grade paper throughout, with advertisements to the inside covers; contents headpiece and numerous tailpieces; the title story with two-page illustration; a good to very good copy for this type of publication, some rubbing to the upper cover and particularly so along spine; fragile and beginning to split with some chipping, but holding firm; pages browned, as usual.
A surprisingly rare edition of Science Fiction magazine, priced 15c. This copy including the complete book-length novel of ‘Planet of the Knob-heads’, as well as ‘The Atom Prince’ by Ray Cummings, and three further short stories, one of which involves a future where WWII has killed off the majority of the world’s men, women rule and enslave any remaining men in the mines. A particularly fine advertisement to the rear of the text shows Charles Atlas, the world’s most perfectly developed man, promising a body like his in just seven days.
“Zuwanna was only postponing the worst, I knew, until she found a suitable knob....she would examine the knobs of newly defunct citizens. But she was not easily pleased. One knob was too small, and one was too large, and one had a crease in it, and one had a spot, and one was too bony, and one was too fatty...”
COBLENTZ, Stanton A.
Planet of the Knob Heads [in] Science Fiction Vol I, No. 5, December 1939
New York: Blue Ribbon, 1939
8vo., decorative coloured and glued card wraps featuring a semi-clad woman astride a humanoid robot being attacked by men on motorbikes with what look like laser pistols; I.C.S. advertisement to the lower cover; pp. [i], 2-96, printed on newspaper-grade paper throughout, with advertisements to the inside covers; contents headpiece and numerous tailpieces; the title story with two-page illustration; a good to very good copy for this type of publication, some rubbing to the upper cover and particularly so along spine; fragile and beginning to split with some chipping, but holding firm; pages browned, as usual.
A surprisingly rare edition of Science Fiction magazine, priced 15c. This copy including the complete book-length novel of ‘Planet of the Knob-heads’, as well as ‘The Atom Prince’ by Ray Cummings, and three further short stories, one of which involves a future where WWII has killed off the majority of the world’s men, women rule and enslave any remaining men in the mines. A particularly fine advertisement to the rear of the text shows Charles Atlas, the world’s most perfectly developed man, promising a body like his in just seven days.
“Zuwanna was only postponing the worst, I knew, until she found a suitable knob....she would examine the knobs of newly defunct citizens. But she was not easily pleased. One knob was too small, and one was too large, and one had a crease in it, and one had a spot, and one was too bony, and one was too fatty...”
COBLENTZ, Stanton A.
Planet of the Knob Heads [in] Science Fiction Vol I, No. 5, December 1939
New York: Blue Ribbon, 1939
8vo., decorative coloured and glued card wraps featuring a semi-clad woman astride a humanoid robot being attacked by men on motorbikes with what look like laser pistols; I.C.S. advertisement to the lower cover; pp. [i], 2-96, printed on newspaper-grade paper throughout, with advertisements to the inside covers; contents headpiece and numerous tailpieces; the title story with two-page illustration; a good to very good copy for this type of publication, some rubbing to the upper cover and particularly so along spine; fragile and beginning to split with some chipping, but holding firm; pages browned, as usual.
A surprisingly rare edition of Science Fiction magazine, priced 15c. This copy including the complete book-length novel of ‘Planet of the Knob-heads’, as well as ‘The Atom Prince’ by Ray Cummings, and three further short stories, one of which involves a future where WWII has killed off the majority of the world’s men, women rule and enslave any remaining men in the mines. A particularly fine advertisement to the rear of the text shows Charles Atlas, the world’s most perfectly developed man, promising a body like his in just seven days.
“Zuwanna was only postponing the worst, I knew, until she found a suitable knob....she would examine the knobs of newly defunct citizens. But she was not easily pleased. One knob was too small, and one was too large, and one had a crease in it, and one had a spot, and one was too bony, and one was too fatty...”