# Astounding Stories of Super Science/Volume 01/Number 01

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| COVER DESIGN | H. W. Wessolowski | |
| Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "The Beetle Horde." |||
| EDITORIAL | The Editor | 7 |
| An Introduction to a New and Unique Magazine. |||
| THE BEETLE HORDE | Victor Rousseau | 8 |
| Only Two Young Explorers Stand in the Way of the Mad Bram's Horrible Revenge—the Releasing of His Trillions of Man-sized Beetles upon an Utterly Defenseless World. (Part One of a Two-part Novel.) |||
| THE CAVE OF HORROR | Captain S. P. Meek | 32 |
| Screaming, the Guardsman Was Jerked Through the Air. An Unearthly Screech Rang Through the Cavern. The Unseen Horror of Mammoth Cave Had Struck Again! |||
| PHANTOMS OF REALITY | Ray Cummings | 46 |
| Red Sensua's Knife Came up Dripping—and the Two Adventurers Knew that Chaos and Bloody Revolution Had Been Unleashed in that Shadowy Kingdom of the Fourth Dimension. (A Complete Novel.) |||
| THE STOLEN MIND | M. L. Staley | 75 |
| What Would You Do, If, Like Quest, You Were Tricked, and Your Very Mind and Will Stolen from Your Body? |||
| COMPENSATION | C. V. Tench | 92 |
| Professor Wroxton Had Disappeared—But in the Bottom of the Mysterious Crystal Cage Lay the Diamond from His Ring! |||
| TANKS | Murray Leinster | 100 |
| Two Miles of American Front Had Gone Dead. And on Two Lone Infantrymen, Lost in the Menace of the Fog-gas and the Tanks, Depended the Outcome of the War of 1932. |||
| INVISIBLE DEATH | Anthony Pelcher | 118 |
| On Lees' Quick and Clever Action Depended the Life of "Old Perk" Ferguson, the Millionaire Manufacturer Threatened by the Uncanny, Invisible Killer. |||
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