Startling Stories - January 1939 - First Issue - The Black Flame

STARTLING STORIES January 1939 pulp magazine.  First issue of the Startling Stories pulp series with The Black Flame and classic robot cover art.

First issue of Startling Stories from January 1939 with a classic robot cover and a letter from Isaac Asimov (who published his first professional story only 2 months later in Amazing Stories).

Condition: Good-/Fair+

3-4" diagonal tear to front right cover repaired internally by tape; ~2" tear to top spine at cover; back cover and spine are complete and nice; old internal tape repair about a third of way down the page to first 52 pages.

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