ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE

VOL. I No. 1 JANUARY, 1930

W. M. CLAYTON, Publisher

HARRY BATES, Editor

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CONTENTS

An Introduction to a New and Unique Magazine.

Only Two Young Explorers Stand in the Way of the Mad Bram's Horrible Revenge—theReleasing of His Trillions of Man-sized Beetles upon an Utterly DefenselessWorld. (Part One of a Two-part Novel.)

Screaming, the Guardsman Was Jerked Through the Air. An Unearthly Screech RangThrough the Cavern. The Unseen Horror of Mammoth Cave Had Struck Again!

Red Sensua's Knife Came up Dripping—and the Two Adventurers Knew that Chaosand Bloody Revolution Had Been Unleashed in that Shadowy Kingdom of the FourthDim