Wonder Stories was an early American science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955. It was founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1929 after he had lost control of his first magazine, Amazing Stories, when his media company Experimenter Publishing went bankrupt. The magazines were not financially successful, and in 1936 Gern’sback sold Wonder Stories to Ned Pines at Beacon Publications, where, retitled Thrilling Wonder Stories, it continued for nearly 20 years. The last issue was dated Winter 1955, and the title was then merged with Startling Stories.
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Wonder Stories was an early American science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955. It was founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1929 after he had lost control of his first magazine, Amazing Stories, when his media company Experimenter Publishing went bankrupt. The magazines were not financially successful, and in 1936 Gern’sback sold Wonder Stories to Ned Pines at Beacon Publications, where, retitled Thrilling Wonder Stories, it continued for nearly 20 years. The last issue was dated Winter 1955, and the title was then merged with Startling Stories, another of Pines’ science fiction magazines. By the end of the 19th century, stories centered on scientific inventions and set in the future, in the tradition of Jules Verne, were appearing regularly in popular fiction magazines such as Munsey’s Magazine and The Argosy. The first science fictionMagazine, Amazing stories, was launched in 1926 at the height of the pulp magazine era, and lasted through the Golden Age and well into the 1950s. It helped to form science fiction as a separately marketed genre, and by the end. of the 1930s a \”Golden Age of Science Fiction\” had begun, inaugurated by the efforts of John W. Campbell, the editor of Astounding Science Fiction. In the early 1940s it was aimed at younger readers, with a juvenile editorial tone and covers that depicted beautiful women in implausibly revealing spacesuits. Later editors began to improve the fiction, and, by the late 1940s, the magazine briefly rivaled Astounding.
The magazine’s last issue appeared on June 5, 1955, with the cover of the July 1929 issue of Air Wonder Stories by Stanley Weinbaum, the author of a novel called A Martian Odyssey. The issue was followed by the June 29, 1955 issue of Science Wonder Stories. Both magazines were published by the same company, Air Wonder Publications, which was later bought by Time-Life Publications. The final issue of Wonder Stories was dated June 30, 1956, and it was the last issue of that company’s Science Wonder Quarterly. The cover of this issue was the July 29, 1956 issue of this magazine by Charles Hornig, the writer of the novel The Martian, which appeared in the July 30, 1957 issue of The Martian. The two magazines were both published by Air Wonder Publishing, a subsidiary of Time- Life Publications, and were published under the name Wonder Stories Quarterly. In both cases, the cover was the same as that of the previous issue of the first issue of these magazines, the July 27, 1957, issue of Air Wonder Stories and the July 28, 1958 issue of Science Wonder Quarterly issue of Science Wonder Thrilling Stories. The name of one of the magazines was chosen by potential subscribers to decide the name of the new magazine; they voted for “Science Wonder Stories”, which became the name for the magazine. The other magazine was Air Wonder, published by Science Wonder Publications.
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