Amazing Stories/Volume 23

Number 1

Amazing Stories cover image for January 1949
Amazing Stories cover image for January 1949

January 1949 IA

Cover art by J. Allen St. John

  • Dinosaur Destroyer • Arthur Petticolas • novella
  • Invasion of the Bone Men • John Stuart Walworth • short story
  • The Robot and the Pearly Gates • Peter Worth • novelette
  • Pattern for Destiny • Chester Smith • short story
  • The Flea Circus • August Meissner • short story
  • Meteorology Versus Biology • A. Morris (error, actually Raymond A. Palmer) • extract

Number 2

Amazing Stories cover image for February 1949
Amazing Stories cover image for February 1949

February 1949 IA

Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones

  • M'Bong-Ah • Rog Phillips • novella
  • The Venomous Girdle • Lester Barclay • short story
  • The Insane Planet • Alexander Blade • novelette
  • The Immortal Menace [Lefty Baker] • Craig Browning • short story
  • Lunar Legacy • Charles Recour • short story
  • Half-Way Street • Joseph R. Galt • short story

Number 3

Amazing Stories cover image for March 1949
Amazing Stories cover image for March 1949

March 1949 IA

Cover art by Edmond Swiatek

  • The Chemical Vampire • Lee Francis • short story
  • The Strange Disappearance of Guy Sylvester • Chester S. Geier & Taylor Victor Shaver • novelette
  • The Lost Power • Guy Archette • short story
  • The Strange Tea of Ting Sun Fu • Leroy Yerxa • novelette
  • The Swordsman of Pira • Charles Recour • novella

Number 4

Amazing Stories cover image for April 1949
Amazing Stories cover image for April 1949

April 1949 IA

Cover art by Arnold Kohn

  • The Monster • S. M. Tenneshaw • novelette
  • Unthinkable • Rog Phillips • novelette
  • The Sun King • Gaston Derreaux • short story
  • Daughters of Doom • H. B. Hickey • short story
  • Valley of the Croen • Lee Tarbell • novella

Number 5

Amazing Stories cover image for May 1949
Amazing Stories cover image for May 1949

May 1949 IA

Cover art by H. W. McCauley

  • The Flame Queen • Gaston Derreaux • novella
  • The Jinx • Alexander Blade • vignette
  • When the Moon Bounced • Frank Patton • novella
  • The Last Stronghold • Chester Ruppert • novelette
  • Window to the Future • Peter Worth • novelette

Number 6

Amazing Stories cover image for June 1949
Amazing Stories cover image for June 1949

June 1949

Cover art by Arnold Kohn

  • Dynasty of the Devil • Alexander Blade • novelette
  • The Outcast • S. M. Tenneshaw • short story
  • I Murdered You • Ruppert Carlin • short story
  • Twisted House • Guy Archette • novelette
  • Land of the Golden Men • Robert Moore Williams • short story
  • Death's Double • Grover Kent • short story
  • Supermen, Incorporated • George Grauman • novella

Number 7

Amazing Stories cover image for July 1949
Amazing Stories cover image for July 1949

July 1949 IA

Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones

  • Exiles of the Elfmounds • Richard S. Shaver • novelette
  • Coffin of Hope • Lee Francis • novelette
  • Decoy in Space • David C. McGowan • short story
  • The Shortcut • Rog Phillips • short story
  • Why the Sky Is Blue • Ruppert Carlin • short story
  • And the Rockets Came • Charles Recour • short story
  • The Mystery of the Cat's Back • G. L. Cleggett • novelette
  • Rendezvous in Space • Guy Archette • novelette

Number 8

Amazing Stories cover image for August 1949
Amazing Stories cover image for August 1949

August 1949 IA

Cover art by Arnold Kohn

  • The Awakening • Rog Phillips • novelette
  • "I Paint from Death" • Robert Fleming Fitzpatrick • novelette
  • The Golden Pennies • Lee Prescott • novelette
  • Traitor to War • John & Dorothy de Courcy • novelette
  • The World Is Dead • Alexander Blade • novelette

Number 9

Amazing Stories cover image for September 1949
Amazing Stories cover image for September 1949

September 1949 IA

Cover art by Richard Loehle

  • The Girl Who Read Minds • Robert Moore Williams • novella
  • Swamp Girl of Venus • H. H. Harmon • novelette
  • Erdis Cliff [The Red Dwarf] • Richard S. Shaver • novella
  • A Joke for Harry • Richard Ashby • short story
  • Von Hulckman's Pets • George D. Lewis • short story

Number 10

Amazing Stories cover image for October 1949
Amazing Stories cover image for October 1949

October 1949 IA

Cover art by H. W. McCauley

  • Tiger Woman of Shadow Valley • Berkeley Livingston • short story
  • Matrix [Craig Browne] • Rog Phillips • novella
  • Dynamite Planet • Guy Archette • novelette
  • The Fire Globe • Guy Archette • novelette
  • Project • Jack Hess • short story
  • The Music of Doom • Gilbert Mead • novelette

Number 11

Amazing Stories cover image for November 1949
Amazing Stories cover image for November 1949

November 1949 IA

Cover art by Arnold Kohn

  • Prometheus' Daughter • Alexander Blade • novelette
  • Beyond the Matrix of Time [Craig Browne] • Rog Phillips • novelette
  • Battle in Eternity • Richard S. Shaver & Chester S. Geier • novella
  • Mr. Jones' Eternal Camera • Berkeley Livingston • novelette
  • The Avenger • Norma Lazell Easton • novelette

Number 12

Amazing Stories cover image for December 1949
Amazing Stories cover image for December 1949

December 1949 IA

Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones

  • Pillars of Delight • Stan Raycraft • novelette
  • Moon of Battle • J. J. Allerton • novella
  • The Mystery of Element 117 • Milton K. Smith • novelette
  • The Elixir of Peace • Robert Moore Williams • short story
  • The Club House: Outpost • Marion Zimmer • short story
  • The Club House: Mastermind • r-tRapp • short story