Edmond Hamilton: "The Comet Doom" and "Cities in the Air"

Let's check out more Edmond Hamilton stories from the 1920s, not from Farnsworth Wright's Weird Tales, but from Hugo Gernsback's titles. Just two today, but they are kind of longish. I almost had us deal with three stories today, but then I realized I had already blogged about a 1968 printing of 1929's "Locked Worlds," the saga of an embittered scientist who tries to help spider people conquer the Earth but is foiled by bird people and his former assistant, a couple of years ago.To read along at scans of the original magazines in which today's stories debuted, try the following links:"The Comet Doom" "Cities in the Air: Part 1" "Cities in the Air: Part 2""The Comet Doom" (1928)The cover of the January 1928 issue of Amazing Stories illustrates "The Comet Doom," thrilling and chilling us with the sight of two men in chains, menaced by a square-headed robot wielding a phallic symbol, but Hamilton's name is not on the cover, nor is the name of the story. The marketing of magazines is…