I assume that her ray-gun’s atomic batteries must have run down because surely our heroine is smart enough to know that firing the ray gun normally makes more sense than using it as a club. This desperate situation was illustrated by Allen Anderson for the January 1952 issue of Planet Stories. The interior has yet another damsel in peril, done by A.M. Williams in illustration of a story “The Vanderkirk” by Margaret St. Clair

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