Planet Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published by Fiction House between 1939 and 1955. It featured interplanetary adventures, both in space and on some other planets, and was
The March 1951 issue of Planet Stories; art by Allen Anderson
The Fall 1940 issue of Planet Stories; art by Albert Drake
A characteristic Planet Stories cover, by Alexander Leydenfrost. Planet Stories was one of the magazines to make the "bug-eyed monster", or "BEM", a staple of science fiction art.
Interior illustration by Alexander Leydenfrost for Bradbury's "The Million Year Picnic"
The Martian Chronicles is a science fiction fix-up novel, published in 1950, by American writer Ray Bradbury that chronicles the exploration and settlement of Mars, the home of indigenous Martians, by
Planet Stories
…of Mars that owed much to the depiction of Barsoom in the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Bradbury's work for Planet included an early story in his Martian Chronicles sequence. Brackett's best-known work for the magazine was a series of adventures featuring Eric John Stark, which began in the summer of 1949. Brackett…
First edition's dust jacket.