Talk:Planet Stories

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Added Planet Stories information announced today by Paizo. Completeblank 00:59, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the URL of Galactic Central's Web page with publication data and covers, currently http://www.philsp.com/data/data235.html#PLANETSTORIES , is a moving target. The target page number keeps going up as more data is added to other pages and they get split up. Not sure what can be done about it. Ahasuerus 23:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion

I deleted the following section: Some covers featured the iconic and (presumably) impossible image of a woman in space, wearing a bikini and space helmet. In this Planet Stories 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.

The reason for the deletion is that, on perusing a complete collection of Planet Stories cover art, I find that the number of covers exactly matching the description "a woman in space, wearing a bikini and space helmet" is precisely zero. RandomCritic 16:15, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

As you say the wording was incorrect. However, I think something along those lines could be put back in. This cover, for example, is close to the intent of the deleted material, and has been widely reproduced. Scantily-clad women certainly feature heavily on the covers, which wasn't true of all the competing magazines. Mike Christie (talk) 18:42, 27 March 2007 (UTC)