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Introduction

Hugo_Gernsback emigrated to the USA in 1904, designed the world's first home radio set, and began a mail-order business to distribute the device. As part of the effort, he began the Telimco catalog. This was followed by a series of radio and electronics magazines: Modern Electrics, Electrical Experimenter (later changed to Science and Invention in 1920), and Radio News (1919).

The reader response to some science fiction stories published in Science and Invention was great, and in 1925 he announced a forthcoming magazine specializing in science fiction called Scientifiction. Response was poor, so Gernsback changed the name of the new magazine to Amazing Stories. Science fiction had been regularly published in Argosy and All-Story Weekly, but there had never been a magazine singularly devoted to the genre.

Amazing had a 69-year run before being declared "officially" dead in 1995 after TSR failed to find a buyer for the magazine. The magazine was revived yet again in 1998, this time with an emphasis on media-related fiction. In late 2000 Amazing moved its operations on-line, halting print production.

Editors

Hugo Gernsback, April 1926 - April 1929
Arthur Lynch, May 1929 - October 1929
T. O'Conor Sloane, November 1929 - April 1938
Raymond A. Palmer, June 1938 - December 1949
Howard Browne, January 1950 - August 1956
Paul W. Fairman, September 1956 - November 1958
Cele Goldsmith (Lalli), December 1958 - June 1965
Joseph Ross, August 1965 - October 1967
Harry Harrison, December 1967 - September 1968
Barry N. Malzberg, November 1968 - January 1969
Ted White, March 1969 - February 1979
Omar Gohagen, May 1979 - August 1980
Elinor Mavor, November 1980 - September 1982
George H. Scithers, November 1982 - July 1986
Patrick Lucien Price, September 1986 - March1991
Kim Mohan, May 1991 - Winter 1995 and Summer 1998 - Summer 2000
Dave Gross, September 2004 - December 2004
Jeff Berkwits, January 2005 - March 2005
Steve Davidson, June 2012 - July 2018
Ira Nayman, August 2018 - present

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Experimenter Publishing Co., April 1926 - June 1929
Experimenter Publications, Inc., July 1929 - October 1930
Radio-Science Publications, Inc., November 1930 - August 1931
Teck Publishing Corp., September 1931 - July 1932
Teck Publications, Inc., August 1932 - February 1938
Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, April 1938 - June 1965
Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., August 1965 - June 1982
Dragon Publishing, September 1982 - May 1985
TSR, Inc., July 1985 - Winter 1995
Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Summer 1998 - Summer 2000
Paizo Publishing, September 2004 - March 2005
Experimenter Publishing Company, June 2012 - Present

Essay Series

Book Review Columns

In the Realm of Books (1929-1938)
The Spectroscope (1955-1965)
The Future in Books (1967-1976)

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Bibliographic Tasks

Task	Status
Data Entry	Complete (1951 thru 1960)
Physical Verification	Complete (1951 thru 1960)
Merge titles	Complete (1951 thru 1960)
Cross check reviews	Complete (1951 thru 1960)
Determine canonical names	Complete (1951 thru 1960)
Check for pseudonyms	Complete (1951 thru 1960)

Circulation Statements

All listings are the average of the previous year's paid distribution

January 1961 (page 116): 48,018
January 1962 (page 136): 51,110
January 1963 (page 60): 52,301
January 1964 (page 96): 43,929
January 1965 (page 64): 35,471
January 1966 (page 124): 46,319
February 1967 (page 12): 47,958
1968 (Locus #155): 40,343
February 1969 (page 47): 38,551
1970 (Locus #155): 34,791
March 1971 (page 61): 30,298
March 1972 (page 130): 28,500
March 1973 (page 93): 27,402
February 1974 (page 67): 26,577
March 1975 (page 91): 23,631
May 1975 (page 69): 24,091 (Revised?)
March 1976 (page 83): 22,825
March 1977 (page 61): 24,800
May 1978 (page 81): 25,700
May 1979 (page 129): 22,784
May 1980 (page 126): 22,332
March 1981 (page 71): 17,339
1982 (Locus # 265): 17,784
1983 (Locus # 265): 11,500
May 1984 (page 70): 11,286
May 1985 (page 101): 10,930
March 1986 (page 161): 12,323
May 1987 (page 161): 13,183
May 1988 (page 96): 13,677
March 1989 (page 37): 14,895
May 1990 (page 10): 12,638
May 1991 (page 60): 15,702
January 1993 (page 93): 6,466
Winter 1994 (page 52): 7,851

Contributors

The Mar30, Aug31, Jan40, Sep46, Feb47, Jul48, Nov52, Apr-Jul53, Dec53, Mar54, Nov54, Jan55-Sep55, Jan57, Apr-Jul57, Sep-Oct57, Apr-Jul58, Oct-Nov58, Nov59, Jul60, Feb67-Winter95 data was supplied by Doug Lee.
The 1946: Jun-Nov, 1947: Jan-Mar, May, Jul-Aug, Nov-Dec, 1948: Feb-Mar, Jul-Aug, 1949: Aug, Nov data was supplied by Guy Sirois.
The Feb, Jun, Jul, Dec (1930); Jun31, Jun32, Jun, Sep (1933); Apr, Aug (1941); Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jul, Aug, Nov (1942); Jan43, Dec44, Mar, Jun (1945), Feb46, Jun, Oct (1947); Apr, May, Jun, Oct, Nov, Dec (1948); Jan, Mar, May, Jun, Sep (1949); Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Nov (1950); Jan, May, Sep (1951); and Mar, May (1952) was supplied by Dan Kurdilla.
The Nov82-May84, as well as Jun76, Sep76, and Jan85 issues were supplied by Michael J. Cross (mike@mjckeh.demon.co.uk).
The 1961-1966, Feb67, Nov69, Jan70, Sep72, and Nov78 data was supplied by Dave Kauffman.
Any other data from 1926-1936 comes from Bleiler's Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years, augmented with information from Donald Day's Index to the Science Fiction Magazines (1926-1950).

Image Sources

The cover images for the majority of these magazines supplied by Phil Stephensen-Payne's "Galactic Central"

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