Fantastic Adventures

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Fantastic Adventures
September 1947 edition (Vol. 9, No. 5) of Fantastic Adventures
Type Monthly
Format Fantasy fiction magazine
Owner Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.
Editor Raymond A. Palmer
Howard Browne
Founded 1939
Headquarters 185 N. Wabash Ave.
Chicago, Illinois

Fantastic Adventures was a fantasy and science fiction magazine published in the United States from 1939 to 1953. The pulp magazine began as a companion publication to Amazing Stories, but following its demise, was absorbed by Fantastic magazine in 1954.

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[edit] History

The magazine 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.[1] The magazine was published by the Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, then headquarted 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.[1]

At one stage in the very early 1940s, the magazine nearly ceased publication.[1] Some stories featured in the magazine around 1950-1951 were of literary importance, but the story quality dropped considerably in its final year of publication.[1]

Fantastic Adventures' position as a companion publication to Amazing Stories was taken by Fantastic.[1]

[edit] Partial list of notable story contributors

Cover of October, 1950 edition featuring L. Ron Hubbard's "The Masters of Sleep".
Cover of October, 1950 edition featuring L. Ron Hubbard's "The Masters of Sleep".

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e Fantastic Adventures (orignially appeared in Tuck's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy). Cushing Library Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at Texas A&M University (2006-06-17). Retrieved on 2007-02-10.

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