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.
Fantastic was an American digest-size fantasy and science fiction magazine, published from 1952 to 1980. It was founded by the publishing company Ziff Davis as a fantasy companion to Amazing Stories.
Cover of the October 1961 issue, by Alex Schomburg
Cover of first issue; artwork by Barye Phillips and Leo Summers.
The second wish fulfilment cover, for October 1956, by Ed Valigursky
The main variations in title fonts. Issues shown are Summer 1952, September–October 1953, January 1961, January 1964, June 1971, October 1978, and April 1979: each is the first issue which used each style shown.