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The Clayton Standard on a Magazine Guarantees
That the stories therein are clean, interesting, vivid, by leading writers of the day and purchased under conditions approved by the Authors' League of America;
That such magazines are manufactured in Union shops by American workmen;
That each newsdealer and agent is insured a fair profit;
That an intelligent censorship guards their advertising pages.
The other Clayton magazines are:
Ace-High Magazine, Ranch Romances, Cowboy Stories, Clues, Five-Novels Monthly, Wide World Adventures, All Star Detective Stories, Flyers, Rangeland Love Story Magazine, Sky-High Library Magazine, Miss 1930, and Forest and Stream
More than Two Million Copies Required to Supply the Monthly Demand for Clayton Magazines.
| COVER DESIGN | H. W. Wessolowski | |
Painted in Water-colors from a Scene in "Spawn of the Stars."
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| OLD CROMPTON'S SECRET. | Harl Vincent | 153 |
Tom's Extraordinary Machine Glowed—and the Years Were Banished from Old Crompton's Body. But There Still Remained, Deep-seated in His Century-old Mind, the Memory of His Crime
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| SPAWN OF THE STARS | Charles Willard Diffin | 166 |
The Earth Lay Powerless Beneath Those Loathsome, Yellowish Monsters That, Sheathed in Cometlike Globes, Sprang from the Skies to Annihilate Man and Reduce His Cities to Ashes.
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| THE CORPSE ON THE GRATING | Hugh B. Cave | 187 |
In the Gloomy Depths of the Old Warehouse Dale Saw a Thing That Drew a Scream of Horror to His Dry Lips. It Was a Corpse—the Mold of Decay on its Long-dead Features—and Yet it Was Alive!
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| CREATURES OF THE LIGHT | Sophie Wenzel Ellis | 196 |
He Had Striven to Perfect the Faultless Man of the Future, and Had Succeeded—Too Well. For in the Pitilessly Cold Eyes of Adam, His Super-human Creation, Dr. Mundson Saw Only Contempt—and Annihilation—for the Human Race.
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| INTO SPACE | Sterner St. Paul | 221 |
What Was the Extraordinary Connection Between Dr. Livermore's Sudden Disappearance and the Coming of a New Satellite to the Earth?
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| THE BEETLE HORDE | Victor Rousseau | 229 |
Bullets, Shrapnel, Shell—Nothing Can Stop the Trillions of Famished, Man-sized Beetles Which, Led by a Madman, Sweep Down Over the Human Race.
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| MAD MUSIC | Anthony Pelcher | 248 |
The Sixty Stories of the Perfectly Constructed Colossus Building Had Mysteriously Crashed! What Was the Connection Between This Catastrophe and the Weird Strains of the Mad Musician's Violin?
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| THE THIEF OF TIME | Captain S. P. Meek | 259 |
The Teller Turned to the Stacked Pile of Bills. They Were Gone! And No One Had Been Near!
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