Planet Stories
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Planet Stories was a pulp science fiction magazine, which published 71 issues between 1939 and 1955. It featured a particular kind of romantic, swashbuckling adventure in a science fiction context, and was renowned for its lurid covers, typically featuring a damsel in distress. Some covers featured the iconic and (presumably) impossible image of a woman in space, wearing a bikini and space helmet. In this it was following the lead of its competitor Startling Stories whose frequent cover artist Earle Bergey pioneered this imagery and is cited as the inspiration for Princess Leia's slave girl costume in Return of the Jedi. For a time it was edited by Jerome Bixby. Twenty years later many of these stories were reprinted as science fantasy.
Among the authors who were spotlighted in it were Leigh Brackett, Poul Anderson, Philip K. Dick and Alfred Coppel.
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