Amazing Stories, In Pulp : The Scuttlefish

June 1926

Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback‘s Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction, and helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction.

Amazing Stories, February, 1939

By the end of the 19th century, stories centered on scientific inventions, and stories set in the future, were appearing regularly in popular fiction magazines. The market for short stories lent itself to tales of invention in the tradition of Jules Verne.

Amazing was published, with some interruptions, for almost eighty years. Publication was suspended after the March 2005 issue and never resumed. the creation of a specialist magazine for science fiction spawned an entire genre publishing industry. The letter columns in Amazing, where fans could make contact with each other, led to the formation of science fiction fandom, which in turn had a strong influence on the development of the field.

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“She’s alive! God save us – she’s living!” — Amazing Stories, December, 1944 – full size

July 1926 – Science Fiction Pulps & Fanzines; Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, Special Collections, UMBC

“The artist drew back the veil over his masterpiece” — Amazing Stories, March, 1945
illustration by Virgil Finlay
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