“ So from now on watch for Stirring Science Stories on your stands each month. Each issue better and better, each issue tops in both science-fiction and fantasy and still the only magazine that covers the entire fantastic field. ”

“ In response to your insistent demands and the enthusiasm with which our first issues were greeted, we have brought back Stirring Science Stories which you have acclaimed as a leader in fantasy.
We have changed the magazine for the better. We give you larger sized pages and a different format in accord with the 1942 growth of the popular fiction field. We are not allowing ourselves to be left behind in the past—we go forward with the times. We are giving you as much for your money as ever before. ”

“ Stirring Science Stories
Volume 2
March, 1942
Number 1
Stirring Science Fiction
Stirring Fantasy Fiction
Cover by Hannes Bok
Interior illustrations by Bok, Dolgov, Hall
Donald A. Wollheim, Editor
All characters mentioned in the stories herein are fictitious, and any similarity to actual persons living or dead is accidental. ”