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Amazing Stories

Total Issues: 609

Note that the March 2005 issue appeared only in PDF format.

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1926 – Summer 2000: Miller/Contento
  Sep-2004 – Mar-2005: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Apr-1926 – Jun-1929: Experimenter Publishing Co.
  Jul-1929 – Oct-1930: Experimenter Publications, Inc.
  Nov-1930 – Aug-1931: Radio-Science Publications
  Sep-1931 – Jul-1932: Teck Publishing Corp.; Dunnellen, NJ
  Aug-1932 – Feb-1938: Teck Publications, Inc.
  Apr-1938 – Jun-1965: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.; Chicago
  Aug-1965 – Jun-1982: Ultimate Publishing
  Sep-1982 – May-1985: Dragon Publishing
  Jul-1985 – Winter 1995: TSR Inc.
  Summer 1998 – Summer 2000: Wizards of the Coast
  Sep-2004 – Mar-2005: Paizo Publishing

Website

  paizo.com/amazing

Editors

  Apr-1926 – Apr-1929: Hugo Gernsback
  May-1929 – Apr-1938: T. O'Conor Sloane
  Jun-1938 – Dec-1949: Raymond A. Palmer
  Jan-1950 – Aug-1956: Howard Browne
  Sep-1956 – Nov-1958: Paul W. Fairman
  Dec-1958 – Jun-1965: Cele Goldsmith [Lalli]
  Aug-1965 – Oct-1967: Joseph Ross
  Dec-1967 – Sep-1968: Harry Harrison
  Nov-1968 – Mar-1969: Barry Malzberg
  May-1969 – Feb-1979: Ted White
  May-1979 – Sep-1982: Elinor Mavor
  Nov-1982 – Jul-1986: George Scithers
  Sep-1986 – Mar-1991: Patrick L. Price
  May-1991 – Summer 2000: Kim Mohan
  Sep-2004 – Mar-2005: Jeff Berkwits

Formats

  standard pulp; digest; slick

Prices

  1926 – May-1938: 25c
  Jun-1938 – 1941: 20c
  Jan-1942 – Mar-1953: 25c
  Apr/May-1953 – Apr-1963: 35c
  May-1963 – Sep-1969: 50c
  Nov-1969 – Jun-1974: 60c
  Aug-1974 – Sep-1975: 75c
  Nov-1975 – Jan-1978: $1.00
  May-1978 – Feb-1979: $1.25
  May-1979 – Nov-1983: $1.50
  Jan-1984: $1.75
  Sep-2004 – Mar-2005: $6.00

Frequency

  monthly; bi-monthly; quarterly
  Sep-2004 – Mar-2005: monthly

Title Changes

  Apr-1926 - Feb-1958, as Amazing Stories
  Mar-1958 - Apr-1958, as Amazing Science Fiction
  May-1958 - Sep-1960, as Amazing Science Fiction Stories
  Oct-1960 - Jul-1970, as Amazing Stories
  Sep-1970 - Feb-1979, as Amazing Science Fiction Stories
  May-1979 - Aug-1980, as Amazing Stories
  Nov-1980 - Nov-1984, as Amazing Science Fiction Stories Combined with Fantastic
  Jan-1985 - Mar-1985, as Amazing Science Fiction Stories Combined with Fantastic Stories
  May-1985 - Jan-1986, as Amazing Science Fiction Stories
  Mar-1986 - Summer 2000, as Amazing Stories

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
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Amazing Stories Annual

Total Issues: 1

All but one of the reprints had previously appeared in Amazing Stories. Discontinued after one issue in favor of Amazing Stories Quarterly.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1927: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Experimenter Publishing
Editors:   Hugo Gernsback
Formats:   bedsheet
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   144pp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Amazing Stories (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Amazing Stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  1933 – 1935
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11

Amazing Stories Quarterly [1928]

Total Issues: 22

Issues & Index Sources

  Winter 1928 – Fall 1934: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Winter 1928 – Spring 1929: Experimenter Publishing Co., Inc.; New York
  Summer 1929 – Summer 1930: Experimenter Publications, Inc.; Jamaica, NY
  Fall 1930 – Summer 1931: Radio-Science Publications, Inc.; Jamaica, NY
  Fall 1931 – Spring 1932: Teck Publishing Corp.; Dunnellen, NJ
  Fall 1932 – Fall 1934: Teck Publications, Inc.; Dunnellen, NJ

Editors

  Winter 1928 – Winter 1929: Hugo Gernsback
  Spring 1929 – Summer 1929: Arthur H. Lynch
  Fall 1929 – Fall 1934: T. O'Conor Sloane

Formats

  bedsheet

Prices

  50c

Pagecounts

  144pp (128pp last two issues)

Frequency

  quarterly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
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Amazing Stories Quarterly [1940]

Total Issues: 27

Unsold issues of Amazing Stories rebound in threes with new covers.

Issues & Index Sources

  Winter 1940 – Winter 1943: Miller/Contento
  Winter 1947 – Spring 1951: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Ziff-Davis Publishing

Prices

  50c

Frequency

  quarterly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
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Amazing Stories Science Fiction Novel

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  1957: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.; New York.
Editors:   Paul W. Fairman (uncredited)
Sources:   UltGuide

Amazing Stories (UK)

Total Issues: 1+24+8=33

The 1946 issue reprinted four stories from various U.S. issues.

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1946: Miller/Contento
Index to British Science Fiction Magazines
  Jun-1950 – Nov-1953: Index to British Science Fiction Magazines
  Dec-1953 – Nov-1955: Index to British Science Fiction Magazines
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  Nov-1946: Ziff-Davis Limited; London.

Formats

  Nov-1946: pulp

Prices

  Nov-1946: 2/-

Pagecounts

  Nov-1946: 64pp
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Amazing Western

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1946
Publishers:   International Publications, Glasgow
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   32pp

Amazon Quarterly

Lesbian Periodical

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 1972 – Mar-1975: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Box 434, West Somerville, MA, United States 02144
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OOV

Amberzine

Total Issues: 12

A fanzine containing stories based on Amber Diceless Role Playing campaigns, articles on Zelazny or various aspects of the Amber universe, cartoons, Amber illustrations (mostly trumps), and the standard zine features of editorials, news and convention notices, and letters from fans.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1992 – 2005: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Phage Press, P.O. Box 310519, Detroit, MI 48231-0519
Website:   zelazny.corrupt.net/amber/Amberzine.html (and/or www.phagepress.com/amberzines.shtml)
Editors:   Erick Wujcik
Prices:   $10
 

Ambit

Total Issues: 179 (to Jan-2005)

Principally a poetry magazine, but has published a considerable amount of fiction by Ballard and others. Circulation about 2,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  1959 – present: Index to Commonwealth Little Magazines (CommLit: 1964 - 1992 only; FicMags: sample issues only)
Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Martin Bax
Website:   www.ambitmagazine.co.uk
Editors:   Martin Bax; fiction editor, J.G. Ballard
Formats:   trade paperback
Prices:   £5.00 (in 2001)
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   quarterly
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Amelia

Runs the whole gamut of creative work including photographs and graphics. Circulation about 1,750. Listed as deceased in Dec-2002.

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1984 – Aug-2001?
Publishers:   Amelia, 329 "E" Street, Bakersfield, CA 93304 (in 2000 - 2002)
Editors:   Frederick A. Raborg, Jr. (in 2000 - 2002)
Email Address:   amelia@lightspeed.net
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   208pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

American Accent

Short story magazine featuring "new dynamic stories by America's new authors. Vol 1 No. 5 is copyrighted 1990.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1990: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   American Accent Publishing
Editors:   Carol Colina
Formats:   digest
Prices:   $2.25
Pagecounts:   160pp

American Agent

Total Issues: 2

Secret Agent magazine dominated by lead novels. First issue all by John Jakes; second issue almost certainly by Michael Avallone under alias John Kennedy.

Issues & Index Sources:  1956: Monthly Murders
Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Republic Features Syndicate
Editors:   Lyle Kenyon Engel overall packager; Michael Avallone compiled the issues
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Sources:   UltGuide, CookMDE

The American Autopsy

Total Issues: 1

See comment in Pulp Collector #21.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1932: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Headquarters Publishing (Harold Hersey)
Formats:   slightly larger than standard pulp (7^12" x 10^12")
Pagecounts:   256pp

The American Boy

A mainly fiction-oriented juvenile magazine, roughly equivalent to Britain's The Boy's Own Paper. Originally a Boy Scout magazine; absorbed The Youth's Companion, 1929.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1899 – Jul/Aug-1941: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Sprague Publishing, Detroit (founded by Griffin Ogden Ellis)
Editors:   1907 – 1915: Clarence B. Kelland
Frequency:   monthly
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