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VOL. V, No. 2 CONTENTS February, 1931
| [COVER DESIGN] | H. W. WESSO | |
| Painted in Water-Colors from a Scene in "The Tentacles from Below." | ||
| [WEREWOLVES OF WAR] | D. W. HALL | [153] |
| The Story of the "Torpedo Plan" and of Capt. Lance's Heroic Part in America's Last Mighty Battle with the United Slavs. | ||
| [THE TENTACLES FROM BELOW] | ANTHONY GILMORE | [172] |
| Down to Tremendous Ocean Depths Goes Commander Keith Wells in His Blind Duelwith the Marauding "Machine-Fish." (A Complete Novelette.) | ||
| [THE BLACK LAMP] | CAPTAIN S. P. MEEK | [212] |
| Dr. Bird and His Friend Carnes Unravel Another Criminal Web of Scientific Mystery. | ||
| [PHALANXES OF ATLANS] | F. V. W. MASON | [228] |
| Only in Dim Legends Did Mankind Remember Atlantis and the Lost Tribes—Until Victor Nelson's Extraordinary Adventure in the Unknown Arctic. (Beginning a Two-PartNovel.) | ||
| [THE PIRATE PLANET] | CHARLES W. DIFFIN | [261] |
| From Earth and Sub-Venus Converge a Titanic Offensive of Justice on the Unspeakable Man-Things of Torg. (Conclusion.) | ||
| [THE READERS' CORNER] | ALL OF US | [277] |
| A Meeting Place for Readers ofAstounding Stories. | ||
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