Amazing Stories/Volume 23

Number 1
January 1949

Cover art by J. Allen St. John
 * Dinosaur Destroyer • Arthur Petticolas • novella
 * Invasion of the Bone Men • John Stuart Walworth • short story
 * The Robot and the Pearly Gates • Peter Worth • novelette
 * Pattern for Destiny • Chester Smith • short story
 * The Flea Circus • August Meissner • short story
 * Meteorology Versus Biology • A. Morris (error, actually Raymond A. Palmer) • extract

Number 2
February 1949

Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones
 * M'Bong-Ah • Rog Phillips • novella
 * The Venomous Girdle • Lester Barclay • short story
 * The Insane Planet • Alexander Blade • novelette
 * The Immortal Menace [Lefty Baker] • Craig Browning • short story
 * Lunar Legacy • Charles Recour • short story
 * Half-Way Street • Joseph R. Galt • short story

Number 3
March 1949

Cover art by Edmond Swiatek
 * The Chemical Vampire • Lee Francis • short story
 * The Strange Disappearance of Guy Sylvester • Chester S. Geier & Taylor Victor Shaver • novelette
 * The Lost Power • Guy Archette • short story
 * The Strange Tea of Ting Sun Fu • Leroy Yerxa • novelette
 * The Swordsman of Pira • Charles Recour • novella

Number 4
April 1949

Cover art by Arnold Kohn
 * The Monster • S. M. Tenneshaw • novelette
 * Unthinkable • Rog Phillips • novelette
 * The Sun King • Gaston Derreaux • short story
 * Daughters of Doom • H. B. Hickey • short story
 * Valley of the Croen • Lee Tarbell • novella

Number 5
May 1949

Cover art by H. W. McCauley
 * The Flame Queen • Gaston Derreaux • novella
 * The Jinx • Alexander Blade • vignette
 * When the Moon Bounced • Frank Patton • novella
 * The Last Stronghold • Chester Ruppert • novelette
 * Window to the Future • Peter Worth • novelette

Number 6
June 1949

Cover art by Arnold Kohn
 * Dynasty of the Devil • Alexander Blade • novelette
 * The Outcast • S. M. Tenneshaw • short story
 * I Murdered You • Ruppert Carlin • short story
 * Twisted House • Guy Archette • novelette
 * Land of the Golden Men • Robert Moore Williams • short story
 * Death's Double • Grover Kent • short story
 * Supermen, Incorporated • George Grauman • novella

Number 7
July 1949

Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones
 * Exiles of the Elfmounds • Richard S. Shaver • novelette
 * Coffin of Hope • Lee Francis • novelette
 * Decoy in Space • David C. McGowan • short story
 * The Shortcut • Rog Phillips • short story
 * Why the Sky Is Blue • Ruppert Carlin • short story
 * And the Rockets Came • Charles Recour • short story
 * The Mystery of the Cat's Back • G. L. Cleggett • novelette
 * Rendezvous in Space • Guy Archette • novelette

Number 8
August 1949

Cover art by Arnold Kohn
 * The Awakening • Rog Phillips • novelette
 * "I Paint from Death" • Robert Fleming Fitzpatrick • novelette
 * The Golden Pennies • Lee Prescott • novelette
 * Traitor to War • John & Dorothy de Courcy • novelette
 * The World Is Dead • Alexander Blade • novelette

Number 9
September 1949

Cover art by Richard Loehle
 * The Girl Who Read Minds • Robert Moore Williams • novella
 * Swamp Girl of Venus • H. H. Harmon • novelette
 * Erdis Cliff [The Red Dwarf] • Richard S. Shaver • novella
 * A Joke for Harry • Richard Ashby • short story
 * Von Hulckman's Pets • George D. Lewis • short story

Number 10
October 1949

Cover art by H. W. McCauley
 * Tiger Woman of Shadow Valley • Berkeley Livingston • short story
 * Matrix [Craig Browne] • Rog Phillips • novella
 * Dynamite Planet • Guy Archette • novelette
 * The Fire Globe • Guy Archette • novelette
 * Project • Jack Hess • short story
 * The Music of Doom • Gilbert Mead • novelette

Number 11
November 1949

Cover art by Arnold Kohn
 * Prometheus' Daughter • Alexander Blade • novelette
 * Beyond the Matrix of Time [Craig Browne] • Rog Phillips • novelette
 * Battle in Eternity • Richard S. Shaver & Chester S. Geier • novella
 * Mr. Jones' Eternal Camera • Berkeley Livingston • novelette
 * The Avenger • Norma Lazell Easton • novelette

Number 12
December 1949

Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones
 * Pillars of Delight • Stan Raycraft • novelette
 * Moon of Battle • J. J. Allerton • novella
 * The Mystery of Element 117 • Milton K. Smith • novelette
 * The Elixir of Peace • Robert Moore Williams • short story
 * The Club House: Outpost • Marion Zimmer • short story
 * The Club House: Mastermind • r-tRapp • short story