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Amazing Stories Listings
Hugo Gernsback emigrated to the USA in
1904, designed the world's first home radio set, and began a mail-order
business to distribute the device. As part of the effort, he began the
Telimco catalog. This was followed by a series of radio and
electronics magazines: Modern Electrics, Electrical
Experimenter (later changed to Science and Invention in 1920),
and Radio News (1919).

The reader response to some science fiction stories published in
Science and Invention was great, and in 1925 he announced a
forthcoming magazine specializing in science fiction called
Scientifiction. Response was poor, so Gernsback changed the name of
the new magazine to Amazing Stories. Science fiction had been
regularly published in Argosy and All-Story Weekly, but
there had never been a magazine singularly devoted to the genre.

Amazing had a 69-year run before being declared "officially"
dead in 1995 after TSR failed to find a buyer for the magazine. The
magazine was revived yet again in 1998, this time with an emphasis on
media-related fiction. In late 2000 Amazing moved its operations
on-line, halting print production.

A detailed timeline
of the publication history of Amazing Stories is found at the end
of this page.

The Mar30, Aug31, Jan40, Sep46, Feb47, Jul48, Nov52, Apr-Jul53, Dec53,
Mar54, Nov54, Jan55-Sep55, Jan57, Apr-Jul57, Sep-Oct57, Apr-Jul58,
Oct-Nov58, Nov59, Jul60, Feb67-Winter95 data was supplied by Doug Lee. The 1946: Jun-Nov, 1947:
Jan-Mar, May, Jul-Aug, Nov-Dec, 1948: Feb-Mar, Jul-Aug, 1949: Aug, Nov
data was supplied by Guy
Sirois. The Feb, Jun, Jul, Dec (1930); Jun31, Jun32, Jun, Sep (1933);
Apr, Aug (1941); Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jul, Aug, Nov (1942); Jan43, Dec44,
Mar, Jun (1945), Feb46, Jun, Oct (1947); Apr, May, Jun, Oct, Nov, Dec
(1948); Jan, Mar, May, Jun, Sep (1949); Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Nov
(1950); Jan, May, Sep (1951); and Mar, May (1952) was supplied by Dan Kurdilla. The Nov82-May84, as well
as Jun76, Sep76, and Jan85 issues were supplied by Michael J. Cross ([email-masked]); the
1961-1966, Feb67, Nov69, Jan70, Sep72, and Nov78 data was supplied by Dave Kauffman; any other data from
1926-1936 comes from Bleiler's Science-Fiction: The Gernsback
Years, augmented with information from Donald Day's Index to the
Science Fiction Magazines (1926-1950). The anchors below lead to
specific issues of Amazing; they currently list works of fiction, essays,
and the cover artist.

2000:

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Amazing Stories Annual
There was only one issue of Amazing
Stories Annual, published in 1927.

Amazing Stories Quarterly

All of the Amazing Stories Quarterly data was reconstructed from
Donald Day's Index to the Science Fiction Magazines (1926-1950).
The anchors below lead to specific issues of Amazing Stories Quarterly;
they currently list works of fiction, essays, and the cover artist.

1934:

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[Fall]

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[Spr/Sum]

[Win]

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[Winter]

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May 1991 - Became bedsheet format. Decreased number of pages from
164 to 96. Kim Mohan took over as editor. Increased the price from $1.75
to $3.95. Began publishing monthly.

Sep 1986 - Patrick Lucien Price took over as editor.

Jan 1984 - Increased the price from $1.50 to $1.75.

Mar 1982 - TSR Hobbies took over as publisher. George H. Scithers
took over as editor.

??? 198? - Title became Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

Nov 1980 - Combined with Fantastic.

Mar 1979 - Elinor Mavor took over as editor. She used the pseudonym
"Omar Gohagen" until Sep 1982, when she began using her real name.

Oct 1978 - Sol Cohen sold his interest to partner Arthur Bernhard.

May 1969 - Ted White took over as editor.

Dec 1968 - Barry N. Malzberg took over as editor.

Dec 1967 - Harry Harrison took over as editor.

Aug 1965 - Sol Cohen took over as publisher (Ultimate Publishing
Company). Joseph Ross took over as editor. Increased number of pages
from 132 to 164.

Jun 1965 - Began publishing bimonthly.

May 1963 - Increased the price from $0.35 to $0.50.

Sep 1962 - Decreased number of pages from 148 to 132.

Oct 1960 - Title became Amazing Stories (Subtitled "Fact and
Science Fiction" until Jun 1965).

Dec 1958 - Cele Goldsmith took over as editor. She later married,
changing her name to Cele Lalli for the August 1964 issue.

May 1958 - Title became Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

Mar 1958 - Title became Amazing Science Fiction.

Nov 1955 - Began publishing monthly.

Sep 1955 - Paul W. Fairman took over as editor.

Apr/May 1953 - Became digest size. Began publishing bimonthly.

Oct 1950 - Decreased number of pages from 180 to 164.

Sep 1950 - Decreased number of pages from 196 to 180.

Mar 1950 - Increased number of pages from 164 to 196.

Jan 1950 - Howard Browne took over as editor.

Sep 1949 - Increased number of pages from 148 to 164.

Jun 1949 - Decreased number of pages from 156 to 148.

Sep 1948 - Decreased number of pages from 164 to 156.

Aug 1948 - Decreased number of pages from 166 to 164.

Jul 1948 - Decreased number of pages from 180 to 166.

May 1946 - Began publishing monthly.

Sep 1945 - Decreased number of pages from 212 to 180.

Sep 1943 - Began publishing bimonthly.

Jun 1943 - Decreased number of pages from 244 to 212.

Aug 1942 - Increased number of pages from 144 to 244.

Oct 1938 - Began publishing monthly.

Jun 1938 - Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. took over as publisher. Raymond
A. Palmer took over as editor.

Aug 1935 - Began publishing bimonthly.

Oct 1933 - Became pulp size; increased the number of pages from 96
to 144.

Nov 1929 - T. O'Conor Sloane took over as editor.

May 1929 - Teck Pub. Corp. took over as publisher. Arthur Lynch took
over as editor.

Apr 1926 - First issue of Amazing Stories; bedsheet size.
Published by Experimenter Pub. Co. Edited by Hugo Gernsback.

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