Archival Adventures - Episode 111: Comet–Pulp Sci-Fi from H-K Publications
Channel: VTLibraries
Date: 2023-05-18

Today’s adventure takes us to 1940/1941 and the pulp scientifiction (sci-fi) magazine “Comet”. We take some time to learn about the magazine, it’s editor F. Orlin Tremaine, and then explore its five issues including the introductory editorial in issue 1, a “Short short” titled “A Green Cloud Came” by Robert A. W. Lowndes from issue 2, and “The Street That Wasn’t There” by Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi from issue 5.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:07:19 The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/comet)
00:08:17 Internet Science Fiction Database (ISFDB) (https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/seriesgrid.cgi?22305)
00:10:00 Discussion of the magazine
00:25:13 Issue # 1, December 1940
00:37:29 Editorial "The 'Comet' Is Here" by Orlin Tremaine
00:51:32 Rocket Mail invitation by F. Orlin Tremaine
00:53:31 Letter from Sam Moskowitz
01:04:25 Issue #2, January 1941
01:09:55 Short-Short Stories "A Green Cloud Came" by Robert W. Lowndes (Full text on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64816)
01:29:03 Issue #3, March 1941
01:32:09 "The Spacean"
01:46:49 Issue #4, May 1941
01:50:52 Issue #5, July 1941
01:54:20 "The Street That Wasn't There" by Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi (Full text on Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22218)
02:19:49 Ending