About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 88. Chapters: Pulp magazine, Doc Savage, The Shadow, Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories, Startling Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Unknown, The Avenger, Planet Stories, Operator No. 5, Spider, Captain Future, Weird Tales, Flying Aces, Secret Agent X, Marvel Tales, Argosy, Raffles, G-8, The Phantom Detective, Fantasy Fan, Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, Black Mask, Doctor Death, Ka-Zar, Blue Book, Cassell's Magazine, Future Science Fiction, Dr. Yen Sin, Oriental Stories, The Popular Magazine, Der Landser, Gangster Stories, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Detective Story Magazine, Orbit Science Fiction, Astonishing Stories, Action Stories, Super Science Stories, Horror Stories, Paul Chadwick, Space Science Fiction, Fight Stories, True Detective, Satellite Science Fiction, Terror Tales, Railroad Man's Magazine, Detective Book Magazine, Story-Teller, Everybody's Magazine, Thrilling Adventures, Super-Science Fiction, Hands in the Dark, Uncanny Tales, Science Fiction Quarterly, Top-Notch Magazine. Excerpt: 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. Before Amazing, science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but Amazing helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction. Amazing was published, with some interruptions, for almost eighty years. The title first changed hands in 1929, when Gernsback was forced into bankruptcy and lost control of the magazine. Amazing became unprofitable during the 1930s and in 1938 was purchased by Ziff-Davis, who hired Raymond A. Palmer as editor. Palmer made the magazine successful though it was not regarded as a quality magazine within the science fiction community. In the late 1940s Amazing began to p...
