SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES' first science fiction cover was on the August 1940 issue, foreshadowing a theme of interplanetary undress for women that would later rise to the level of an art form on the covers of PLANET STORIES.   Much of the science fiction which would appear in SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES was from the pens of Victor Rousseau (writing as both Lew Merrill and Hugh Speer) and Robert Leslie Bellem.  Amazingly, neither Isaac Asimov nor Robert Heinlein contributed any stories to its pages.  For those who prefer a little spicy in their science fiction, following is a nearly complete checklist of the science fiction that would appear in SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES during 1940: "Woman From Mercury" by Lew Merrill (7/40), "Created He Them" by Robert Leslie Bellem (7/40), "Loot for the Lords of Doom" by Robert Leslie Bellem (8/40), "City of Light" by Hugh Speer (8/40), "Planet of Peril" by Henri St. Maur (pseudonym of Henry H.S. Monihan, 9/40), "Shawm of the Stars" by Hugh Speer (9/40), "The Robot Awakes" by Lew Merrill (10/40), "Lord of Two Worlds" by Hugh Speer (10/40), "The Horror in the Penthouse" by Tay Philips (10/40), "Between Worlds" by John Hilton (11/40), "Rebel Planet" by Hugh Speer (11/40), and "The Great God Harris" by Lew Merrill (12/40).