Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE _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. 1 CONTENTS OCTOBER, 1930 COVER DESIGN H. W. WESSOLOWSKI _Painted in Oils from a Scene in "The Invisible Death."_ STOLEN BRAINS CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK 7 _Dr. Bird, Scientific Sleuth Extraordinary, Goes After a Sinister Stealer of Brains._ THE INVISIBLE DEATH VICTOR ROUSSEAU 24 _With Night-Rays and Darkness-Antidote America Strikes Back, at the Terrific and Destructive Invisible Empire._ (A Complete Novelette.) PRISONERS ON THE ELECTRON ROBERT H. LEITFRED 75 _Fate Throws Two Young Earthians into Desperate Conflict with the Primeval Monsters of an Electron's Savage Jungles._ JETTA OF THE LOWLANDS RAY CUMMINGS 94 _Into Remote Lowlands, in an Invisible Flyer, Go Grant and Jetta--Prisoners of a Scientific Depth Bandit._ (Part Two of a Three-Part Novel.) AN EXTRA MAN JACKSON GEE 118 _Sealed and Vigilantly Guarded Was "Drayle's Invention, 1932"--for It Was a Scientific Achievement Beyond Which Man Dared Not Go._ THE READERS' CORNER ALL OF US 130 _A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories._ * * * * * Single Copies, 20 Cents (In Canada, 25 Cents) Yearly Subscription, $2.00