Great American Publications in 1960 published all the following magazines:
This tv-tie-in magazine, publishing new fiction aside from Tightrope!stories, lasted three issues...nearly as long as the tv series did (another vicitim of CBS thug James Aubrey, in this case facing off with similarly intransigent sponsors).
1960: Fantastic Science Fiction becomes, somewhat less misleadingly (given its high fantasy content), Fantastic: Stories of Imagination; its companion, Amazing Stories, becomes Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories; and the most popular sf magazine slowly changes its title from Astounding Science Fiction to Analog: Science Fact -> Fiction. What I'd failed to remember is that Fantastic Universe (1953-1960), also usually a mixed fantasy and sf magazine which hoped you'd get that impression while usually labeling itself solely an sf magazine, in its last few issues also changed its title a bit:
Despite not-terrible imagery upfront (even if the logo is a bit overdone), Fear! might've been the worst-packaged of Great American's fiction magazines...and it only lasted two issues...John Jakes, Hal Ellson and Arthur Porges contributed new stories to this first issue, but you can't tell from the cover...
The shortlived, digest-sized US reprint edition of the most important of UK sf magazines...for its first US issue, recycling the cover painting that inspired Algis Budrys's novel Who? (which in its turn was rather tepidly filmed, with Elliot Gould, in the mid 1970s).
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And, unsurprisingly, the most durable of the GA fiction magazines was The Saint Mystery Magazine, which they acquired along with Fantastic Universe from the folding King-Size Publications in 1959, and which, like New Worlds, had a UK version that could provide relatively inexpensive reprints...I believe this trade went both ways...
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Great American didn't last in the fiction-magazine business much past 1960...on balance, the covers didn't help...
Many (not all) of these cover images courtesy of Galactic Central.
This tv-tie-in magazine, publishing new fiction aside from Tightrope!stories, lasted three issues...nearly as long as the tv series did (another vicitim of CBS thug James Aubrey, in this case facing off with similarly intransigent sponsors).
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| One of the last of the new magazines in pulp/"standard" size ...roughly the dimensions of the National Geographic or most comic books. |
1960: Fantastic Science Fiction becomes, somewhat less misleadingly (given its high fantasy content), Fantastic: Stories of Imagination; its companion, Amazing Stories, becomes Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories; and the most popular sf magazine slowly changes its title from Astounding Science Fiction to Analog: Science Fact -> Fiction. What I'd failed to remember is that Fantastic Universe (1953-1960), also usually a mixed fantasy and sf magazine which hoped you'd get that impression while usually labeling itself solely an sf magazine, in its last few issues also changed its title a bit:
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| Note Robert F. Young gets higher billing than Borges or Bloch. No. |
Despite not-terrible imagery upfront (even if the logo is a bit overdone), Fear! might've been the worst-packaged of Great American's fiction magazines...and it only lasted two issues...John Jakes, Hal Ellson and Arthur Porges contributed new stories to this first issue, but you can't tell from the cover...
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| poor crow. |
The shortlived, digest-sized US reprint edition of the most important of UK sf magazines...for its first US issue, recycling the cover painting that inspired Algis Budrys's novel Who? (which in its turn was rather tepidly filmed, with Elliot Gould, in the mid 1970s).
And, unsurprisingly, the most durable of the GA fiction magazines was The Saint Mystery Magazine, which they acquired along with Fantastic Universe from the folding King-Size Publications in 1959, and which, like New Worlds, had a UK version that could provide relatively inexpensive reprints...I believe this trade went both ways...
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| Not the most deft photo-collage... |
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| Hans Stefan Santesson was the actual editor. |
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| The rendered covers were a bit better, if busy... |
Great American didn't last in the fiction-magazine business much past 1960...on balance, the covers didn't help...
Many (not all) of these cover images courtesy of Galactic Central.