Amazing Stories
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Amazing Stories is 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. Science fiction
First issue of Amazing Stories, art by Frank R. Paul. This copy was autographed by Hugo Gernsback in 1965.
Amazing Stories, August 1930
February 1941 issue cover art
September 1928 issue. This sober design sold poorly and Gernsback returned to lurid action covers.
Richard Sharpe Shaver
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Richard Sharpe Shaver was an American writer and artist who achieved notoriety in the years following World War II as the author of controversial stories which were printed in science fiction magazine
Amazing Stories
…though it was not regarded as a quality magazine within the science fiction community. In the late 1940s Amazing presented as fact stories about the Shaver Mystery, a lurid mythos that explained accidents and disaster as the work of robots named deros, which led to dramatically increased circulation but widespread…
Shaver's first published work, the novella "I Remember Lemuria", was the cover story in the March 1945 Amazing Stories
Shaver's novella "Thought Records of Lemuria", his second published story, took the cover of the June 1945 Amazing Stories
Shaver's run of Amazing cover stories continued in September 1945 with "Cave City of Hel"