PLANET STORIES - Winter 1947

BLACK PRIESTESS OF VARDA by Erik Fennel She was well-named-Sin, foul witch and raving beauty, Beloved of Sasso, the Dark Power striving to capture, with her help, a lovely little world. Their only fear was a whispered legend-Elvedon, the Savior . . . But this crippled idiot, blundering through a shower of sparks into their time and space-he could not be Elvedon! EARTH IS MISSING! by Carl Selwyn 87th Century Earth, entombed in a relentless mile-thick coat of ice-its buried cities groaning in slow-congealing despair-still dreaded far more that bestial horror known only as The Bear! For that monster with a human brain was threatening to steal the world!