Air Wonder Stories, May 1930

# Air Wonder Stories, May 1930

This science fiction and aviation pulp magazine contains seven stories across approximately 75 pages. The lead feature is "The Planet of Peril" by Otis Adelbert Kline—a novel about Robert Grandon, psychically transported to Venus, where he encounters savage warriors, ferocious beasts, giant reptiles, and enormous blood-sucking bats. Grandon meets Vernia, a tyrannical Amazon queen leading an army against him; their conflict culminates in unexpected romance. Other stories include "The Air Trap" by Edward E. Giappelow (aviators over Skeleton Valley), "The Arctic Rescue" by Walter Kateley (survival in ice-bound Arctic), "Women with Wings" by Leslie F. Stone (Venusian raiders kidnapping Earth men), "The Invisible Destroyer" by L. A. Eschbach, "The Sky Ruler" by Ed Earl Repp, and part one of "The Bat-Men of Mars" by Wood Jackson (explorers from Earth encountering Martian civilization). The issue also advertises technical training programs, a cover contest, and reader letters debating Lindbergh versus Byrd's flight hazards.