The short-lived anthology  Fantastic Worlds  featured Earth-based stories... ...contrasting with the  other  anthology from  Standard Comics...

 The short-lived Standard anthology  Fantastic Worlds  featured Earth-based stories... ...contrasting with the other anthology from  Standa...

Here's the complete cover collection for  Ace's  Space Action ... Art by Lou Cameron ...which share something in common with the cov...

What's it like to be just another working stiff doing his job...but in outer space? This tale from  Standard's  Fantastic Worlds  #5...

Some call Golden Age sci-fi "Westerns with ray guns"... ...but it could also be "jungle tales with aliens instead of natives...

They ran for a combined total of only five issues... Art by Alex Toth ...but  Standard's  short-lived sci-fi anthologies  Fantastic Worl...

Some say space opera is just a Western with ray guns instead of six-shooters... ...but  this  never-reprinted tale from  Standard's  Fan...

Not to be confused with  Space Ace  (who went through several different incarnations)... ... this  guy is a Cold War fighter pilot-type tran...

What if a science fiction writer was the  hero  of a sci-fi tale? And, what if the scribe was, initially, just as ignorant of the situation ...