Astounding Stories #71
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Kick of the Month" Club, a standout tale from Astounding Stories #71 (1969), delivers a delightfully strange twist on fate and coincidence, all drawn with sharp, expressive lines by Ogden Whitney, who both pencils and inks the story. When Arthur Mellon’s experimental cigarette filter leads to a dizzy spell and a series of uncanny coincidences—ranging from a mysterious newspaper to a windfall in oil stocks—his life takes a turn no one could predict. The cover, by John Rosenberger, captures the story’s eerie, off-kilter mood with its striking, stylized imagery.
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Arthur Mellon is trying to perfect the perfect cigarette filter. He applies his latest solution to some filters and then smokes 5 to test. He leaves for home feeling dizzy. He buys his usual newspaper and reads about an assassination and an oil company making a rapid rise on the stock market. The next morning he hears about the assassination but can't find the newspaper. Susan tells him he didn't bring one home. The newspaper vendor says he was off sick so couldn't have sold him the newspaper. Arthur buys shares in the oil company with all his savings and makes over $200,000 from $2083.
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