Odyssey (children's magazine)

Odyssey is a science magazine for children ages 9–14, created by Richard Berry, editor of Astronomy. The magazine debuted in 1975 with Nancy Mack as its founding editor and was published by AstroMedia Corp until it was acquired by Kalmbach Publishing. Kalmbach published the magazine from 1985 - 1991.^[1] Odyssey focused on astronomy and featured a robot named Ulysses 4-11 as its mascot. Ulysses would answer questions from readers and had his own comic, "The Adventures of Ulysses," , written by Bruce Algozin and Russ Chong, at the end of each issue until 1989. A single panel comic, "Springboard", written John Leatherman, was also featured in the magazine.

In 1991, Kalmbach sold Odyssey to Cobblestone Publishing, a division of Carus Publishing, which has published the magazine since. The magazine expanded its focus to science in general and Ulysses was discontinued as a mascot. Reader questions are now answered by microbiologist Dr. Cy Borg, and the magazine also features a short fiction section.

External links

• Official website

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