ToC series: Astounding scans, 1930-1933 issues (while Harry Bates was editor & William Clayton was owner)

This post begins a series of about 3 dozen posts, listing the table of contents of Astounding Stories (of Super-Science) (the original avatar of what is now Analog). Idea is to make the scans of these issues a bit more accessible. I'll add my own annotations where I've read the stories; in other cases, I quote the original description from ToC page.

These scans (all 1930/1931/1932 issues, plus January/March 1933 issues) were recently posted to Internet Archives by Greg Weeks of Project Gutenberg. Many of these stories will eventually be available at Project Gutenberg as text files, but that is a bit in the future.

According to Wikipedia: This period covered is that of William Clayton, the businessman who started the magazine, & who had to eventually sell it during the Depression. Harry Bates was editor during this period, emphasizing "straightforward action-adventure stories, with scientific elements only present to provide minimal plausibility." "In February 1931, the original name Astounding Stories of Super-Science was shortened to Astounding Stories." Clayton "switched Astounding to a bimonthly schedule with the June 1932 issue." "The first issue appeared in January 1930"; "the last Clayton Astounding was dated March 1933."

On downloading scans.

Except when bandwidth is metered, downloading an entire year's scans is probably simpler than an individual story or issue's pages. A bulk download tool can work off a whole year's URL; I ran wget overnight for several nights.

Individual pages vary in size from about half MB to 3 MB, depending on specific issue. Quality also varies, at least at my default resolution. I've a feeling setting screen resolution to a higher value will fix bad quality pages, but I've not tried this.

My ToCs list page number where individual stories begin. Scan file containing that page is named "asfYYYYMMPPP.png": YYYY - year, MM - month, PPP - page number.

In a few cases, text versions of specific stories already exist on the web. When I'm aware of it, I include these links.

Tables of contents.

I'll link to specific issues' ToCs as I post them. In most cases, I skip stuff other than stories from individual ToC pages.

1. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1930.
2. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, February 1930.
3. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg or Manybooks.
4. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, April 1930. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg or Manybooks.
5. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May 1930. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg or Manybooks.
6. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June 1930. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg & Manybooks.
7. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, July 1930. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg or Manybooks.
8. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg or Manybooks.
9. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, September 1930. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg or Manybooks.
10. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October 1930. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg or Manybooks.
11. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November 1930
12. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg or Manybooks.
13. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1931
14. Astounding Stories, February 1931. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg & Manybooks.
15. Astounding Stories, March 1931. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg & Manybooks.
16. Astounding Stories, April 1931. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg & Manybooks.
17. Astounding Stories, May 1931. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg & Manybooks.
18. Astounding Stories, June 1931. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg & Manybooks.
19. Astounding Stories, July 1931. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg.
20. Astounding Stories, August 1931. Download text version of the issue in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg & Manybooks.
21. Astounding Stories, September 1931
22. Astounding Stories, October 1931
23. Astounding Stories, November 1931
24. Astounding Stories, December 1931
25. Astounding Stories, January 1932
26. Astounding Stories, February 1932
27. Astounding Stories, March 1932
28. Astounding Stories, April 1932
29. Astounding Stories, May 1932
30. Astounding Stories, June 1932
31. Astounding Stories, September 1932
32. Astounding Stories, November 1932
33. January 1933
34. March 1933

Related.

1. Annotated list of stories from John Campbell's Astounding.
   
2. All stories from Analog/Astounding.
3. Feed that catches only posts about Analog/Astounding. Caution: Weeks or months might sometimes lapse between these posts.