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ASTOUNDING
STORIES
OF SUPER-SCIENCE
20c
_On Sale the First Thursday of Each Month_
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VOL. III, No. 2 CONTENTS AUGUST, 1930
COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSOLOWSKI _Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "The Planet of Dread."_
THE PLANET OF DREAD R. F. STARZL 147 _A Stupid Blunder--and Mark Forepaugh Faces a Lifetime of Castaway Loneliness in the Savage Welter of the Planet Inra's Monster-ridden Jungles._
THE LORD OF SPACE VICTOR ROUSSEAU 158 _A Black Caesar Had Arisen on Eros--and All Earth Trembled at His Distant Menace._
THE SECOND SATELLITE EDMOND HAMILTON 175 _Earth-men War on Frog-vampires for the Emancipation of the Human Cows of Earth's Second Satellite._ (A Novelet.)
SILVER DOME HARL VINCENT 192 _In Her Deep-buried Kingdom of Theros, Phaestra Reveals the Amazing Secret of the Silver Dome._
EARTH, THE MARAUDER ARTHUR J. BURKS 210 _Deep in the Gnome-infested Tunnels of the Moon, Sarka and Jaska Are Brought to Luar the Radiant Goddess Against Whose Minions the Marauding Earth Had Struck in Vain._ (Part Two of a Three-Part Novel.)
MURDER MADNESS MURRAY LEINSTER 237 _Bell Has Fought through Tremendous Obstacles to Find and Kill The Master, Whose Diabolical Poison Makes Murder-mad Snakes of the Hands; and, as He Faces the Monster at Last--His Own Hands Start to Writhe!_ (Conclusion.)
THE FLYING CITY H. THOMPSON RICH 260 _From Space Came Cor's Disc-city of Vada--Its Mighty, Age-old Engines Weakening--Its Horde of Dwarfs Hungry for the Earth!_
THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 279 _A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories._
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