PLANET STORIES - WINTER 1939 - First issue. Fiction House had both a comic division and a pulp division of their publishing firm. First came their pulp house, then the comics, with some of their pulps sharing the same titles as their comics. PLANET STORIES was one of those titles, and they both published imaginative fiction, with a space opera theme. THE GOLDEN AMAZONS OF VENUS by John Murray Reynolds Dakta death, horrible beyond the weirdest fever-dreams of Earthmen, faced Space Ship Commander Gerry Norton. The laconic interplanetary explorer knew too much. He stood in the dynamic path of Lansa, Lord of the Scaly Ones, the crafty monster bent on conquering all the rich, shadowless lands of the glorious Amazons of Venus. WAR-LORDS OF THE MOON by Fletcher Pratt and Laurence Manning Quick-revving Ross, on the Moon run, asked a simple question. How are the stars behaving, Harry? But Harrel Moore could only stare in horror. For the stars had run madly amok, cosmic engines of destruction in the hands of the twisted genius of the Moon.