Famous Fantastic Mysteries
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Famous Fantastic Mysteries was an American pulp magazine published from 1939 to 1953. The editor was Mary Gnaedinger. It was launched by the Munsey Company as a way to reprint the many science fiction
The cover of the first issue, dated September/October 1939
Cover of the August 1942 issue, by Virgil Finlay
Argosy (magazine)
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Argosy was an American magazine, founded in 1882 as The Golden Argosy, a children's weekly, edited by Frank Munsey and published by E. G. Rideout. Munsey took over as publisher when Rideout went bankr
Famous Fantastic Mysteries
…Company as a way to reprint the many science fiction and fantasy stories which had appeared over the preceding decades in Munsey magazines such as Argosy. From its first issue, dated September/October 1939, Famous Fantastic Mysteries was an immediate success. Less than a year later, a companion magazine…
Cover of the April 1906 issue
Frank Munsey
Cover of The Golden Argosy for May 19, 1883, featuring the first installment of Hector's Inheritance by Horatio Alger
Cover of the August 15, 1925 issue