Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE 20c _On Sale the First Thursday of Each Month_ W. M. CLAYTON, Publisher HARRY BATES, Editor DOUGLAS M. DOLD, Consulting Editor 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, ALL STAR DETECTIVE STORIES, RANGELAND LOVE STORY MAGAZINE, and WESTERN ADVENTURES. _More than Two Million Copies Required to Supply the Monthly Demand for Clayton Magazines._ * * * * * VOL. IV, No. 2 CONTENTS NOVEMBER, 1930 COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSOLOWSKI _Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "The Pirate Planet."_ THE WALL OF DEATH VICTOR ROUSSEAU 151 _Out of the Antarctic It Came--a Wall of Viscid, Grey, Half-Human Jelly, Absorbing and Destroying All Life That It Encountered._ THE PIRATE PLANET CHARLES W. DIFFIN 168 _A Strange Light Blinks on Venus, and Over Old Earth Hovers a Mysterious Visitant--Dread Harbinger of Interplanetary War._ (Beginning a Four-Part Novel.) THE DESTROYER WILLIAM MERRIAM ROUSE 198 _Slowly, Insidiously, There Stole Over Allen Parker Something Uncanny. He Could No Longer Control His Hands--Even His Brain!_ THE GRAY PLAGUE L. A. ESHBACH 210 _Maimed and Captive, in the Depths of an Interplanetary Meteor-Craft, Lay the Only Possible Savior of Plague-Ridden Earth._ JETTA OF THE LOWLANDS RAY CUMMINGS 230 _Black-Garbed Figures Move in Ghastly Greenness As the Invisible Flyer Speeds on Its Business of Ransom._ (Conclusion.) VAGABONDS OF SPACE HARL VINCENT 244 _From the Depths of the Sargasso Sea of Space Came the Thought-Warning, "Turn Back!" But Carr and His Martian Friend Found It Was Too Late!_ (A Complete Novelette.) THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 271 _A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories._ Single Copies, 20 Cents (In Canada, 25 Cents) Yearly Subscription, $2.00