Marvel Science Stories was a U.S. pulp magazine with fifteen issues in two separate runs, both edited by Robert O. Erisman and published by Abraham and Martin Goodman. The first issue, dated August 1938, carried stories with more sexual content than was usual for the genre, including several stories by Henry Kuttner. Reader reaction was generally negative; one referred to Kuttner's story "The Time Trap" as "trash". The magazine was cancelled after the April 1941 issue, but when a boom in science fiction magazines began in 1950, the publishers revived it. The first issue of the new series was dated November 1950; a further six issues appeared, with the last dated May 1952. Contributors to the first run included Arthur J. Burks and Jack Williamson; the second run published stories by better-known writers, including Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Jack Vance and L. Sprague de Camp. The second incarnation of the magazine did not succeed in the more competitive market of the 1950s; even the writers who sold to Marvel Tales were publishing their best work elsewhere.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1689:

Glorious Revolution: Mary Stuart and her husband William III of Orange were proclaimed co-rulers of England and Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England

1867:

Work began on the covering of the Senne, burying the polluted main waterway in Brussels to allow urban renewal in the centre of the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering_of_the_Senne

1913:

Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama, declared the independence of Tibet from Qing China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Dalai_Lama

1960:

African American college students staged the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, part of a nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_sit-ins

2012:

The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space Agency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_(rocket)

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

beloved: Someone who is loved; something that is loved. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beloved

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.   --Robert H. Jackson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_H._Jackson