Total Issues: 13

Amateur magazine.

Poetry, fiction, short episodes in form of drama; retitled Fantasma from #3 (Mar/May-1947).

Total Issues: 9

"We welcome stories of no more than 2,500 words in the fantasy/science fiction/horror genres, or any combination of such. We strive for a range of styles: gothic, contemporary, surreal, and experimental horror; high and low, light and dark, as well as slipstream fantasy; and soft or hard science fiction. A blend of any of the genres is most welcome."

Issue #6 was the last regular issue of Fantasque. From Spring 2002 it became an annual anthology for 3 years and then folded.

Total Issues: 14

Fanzine, publishing early fiction and poetry by C.S. Youd, Arthur C. Clarke, Charles Eric Maine and others.

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Total Issues: 208

Begun in 1952 by editor Howard Browne and publishers Ziff Davis (Z-D) as an attempt at a sophisticated and handsome digest-sized magazine, Fantastic was initially a success, and became even more so by its third issue, which featured a story attributed to the enormously popular crime fiction writer Mickey Spillane (although it was actually written by Browne.

Subsequent issues of Fantastic sold well enough for the pulp Fantastic Adventures to be merged with it in 1953; Amazing had already been reshaped to resemble Fantastic.

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Total Issues: 8

Total Issues: 129

Fantastic Adventures was founded by editor Raymond A. Palmer in 1939 as a companion to Amazing Stories and was initially published in a large size format to emulate the early Amazing Stories magazines. The magazine was published by the Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, then headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Fantastic Adventures published much light, "frothy" fantasy in its early years, but by the late 1940s was printing much the same material as its companion, only more fantastic in vein.

Following its demise in 1953, it was absorbed by Fantastic magazine.

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Total Issues: 21

Each issue rebound three unsold issues of Fantastic Adventures with a new cover.

Total Issues: 2 (to Aug-2007)

Total Issues: 2

#1 carried the front cover and the lead story from the US July 1946 issue, as well as the Frank Paul back cover from the same date. #2 had the cover and lead story from US June 1942 and it, too carried a Frank Paul back cover, but this one from the original US issue from December 1945. These two issues were only 32 pages in length and the remaining stories they contained were drawn from various earlier numbers from the 1942-45 period. SFFWF gives 1947 as the date for these, but IdxBSF dates them as July and September 1946, which are the dates used here.

Total Issues: 24

Total Issues: 1

Reprints seven stories from Fantastic Adventures.

Total Issues: 5+20=25

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Canadian reprint edition of Fantastic Novels.

Total Issues: 2

Neither of the issues is dated and, while there is general agreement that one is a partial reprint of the May 1949 (US) issue and the other a full reprint of the November 1949 (US) issue, sources differ as to which is which.

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