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Publication Office, 404 North Wesley Avenue, Mt. Morris, Illinois Editorial and General- Offices, 96-98 Park Place, New York City Published by . STELLAR PUBLISHING CORPORATION I. 5. MANHEIMER, Sec’y Volume 1—No. 11 May, 1930 H, GERNSBACK, Pres. S. GERNSBACK, Treas, Table of Contents—May THE AIR TRAP By Edward E, Chappelow .............. arsssserorse 966 The avintors dreaded the trip over mysterious Skeleton Valley. But when their: Buddy wont ont Gnd they got his: frontic calls for help . os THE ARCTIC RESCUE By alter Kateley: .escsesennesscrvessseteeseseee 974 cebound in the Arctic with certain death ahead. In a feverish ymmoment there» flashed across his mind the great ideo that might save them... WOMEN. WITH WINGS By Leslie F. Stone ............ ssrseeee 984 te om: far-off Venus come the rai as of men didnopped until the Earthlings retaliated <. . THE INVISIBLE DESTROYER By, L A. Eschbach Lioneieee 1004 shall never take place,”-he said, And he made his threat good, He defied the world until @ strange thing happened . « « THE SKY RULER By Ed Earl Repp ~........ near areeeees (INC) e-suspocted hix best friend of being that dreaded oiler -of the skies... until the truth came out. ‘ THE BAT-MEN OF MARS By Wood Jackson .-.:.ccscsocccessuseccssiseritssnreeceeee 1026 (A. Story -in Two Parts) Part 1) Like at avalanche _the-Bat-men. descended: on the explorers from the earti, snatching away the girl, , AVIATION. FORUM —W0 1040 THE READER AIRS HIS VIEWS.........1041 On the Cover This Month is shown the aviator from. “The Air Trap,” forced to descend, just about. to land in the dreaded Skeleton ‘Valley. He-is-holding in his arm- the precious box of diamonds which is his charge, NEXT MONTH THE ANNIHILATOR COMES, by Ed Earl Repp. Yielding to. the demands of our readers our popular author gives us now a sequel of his “Beyond Gravity.” In this thrilling story, we get the further adventures of the gteat airship: “Annihilator,” and its brave commander, Bob Allison, Into the frozen’ north they go, to search for the missing exploters; and they encounter adventures- and a terrible menace that man- had never dreamed of, In- cidently our author gives us anew view of the Arctic zones that is startling and revolutionary, yet has a. good deal of authority for it COVER CONTEST, In this issue we wilt publish the first prize winner of the February, 1930, cover contest and if space permits, the second and third prize winners, We received over 400 manuscripts in this contest and the results. were on the whole quite excellent. / WHOSE FLIGHT WAS THE MORE HAZARDOUS—LINDBERGH'S OR BYRDS? The prize-winning letter az well as the general vote on, this absorbing question will be published. in this isste. THE TORPEDO. TERROR, by Edsel Newton, It has alrendy been acknowl- edged that it is possible to send an airplane into the air and gnide it by radio-controls without the need of-a pilot, The immense importance of this in a-war-in the air cannot be overestimated, For by means of radio controls it will-be possible fora nation to send. thousands upon thousnds of planes laden with high explosives over the;enemy lines, But ‘The Torpedo. Terror” is not a. wan story, in fact it is the working out of a:great- mystery and the saving of the world from a_terrible disaster; THE-BAT-MEN OF MARS, by Wood Jackson. The concluding instalment of this marvelous interplanetary story/is by far the. most exciting part, Our explorers-from the earth are coming. to.grips-with a strange civilization. Pitting their strength: and ingenuity against the terribie super-strength of another race, they show through pnge after page of this swiftmoying | tale that when interplanetary travel comes we must be prepared to mect it, nto matter how strange or mysterious, M AND OTHERS. AIR WONDER STORIES—Monthly—tintered as second-class. matter United States-and Canada, Printed in U. S.A. June 1, 1929, ot the post office at Mount-Moprris, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, Title registered. U. S. Patent Office, Gernsback Publications, Inc. —-Text=and illdstrations ~ 0! copyright - owners. AIR If YOU WISH TO SUBSCRIBE to AIR WONDER STORIES, make Trademarks and i to th ishing: Corp. Be sure to mention copyrights by permission of Gernsback. Publications, Ine.; 98 «Park. Place, pul aeiteanese fone Sealine Mab iating Sor Dae Gag evedilg New. York City, Owner of-all trademark -rights. 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