Fantastic Story Magazine

Fantastic Story Magazine

"Fantastic Story Magazine" was a science fiction pulp magazine published on a quarterly schedule by Best Books, a subsidiary imprint of Standard Magazines. Initially priced at 25 cents, the 160-page debut issue (Spring 1950) was titled "Fantastic Story Quarterly", and it continued with that title for a year. Beginning with the Summer 1951 issue, it was known as "Fantastic Story Magazine" until it folded (Spring 1955), leaving a total of 23 issues.

The first editor, Sam Merwin, Jr., left with the Fall 1951 issue. His replacement, Samuel Mines, edited from the Winter 1952 issue until Fall 1954, when he was replaced by Alexander Samalman who edited the last two issues in 1955 (Winter, Spring).

The leading cover illustrator was Earle K. Bergey. Illustrations by Bergey usually featured women in space helmets and bikinis or skin-tight outfits, a type of apparel that later served as the inspiration for Princess Leia's slave-girl costume in "Return of the Jedi".

One issue (Fall 1954) was prominently displayed as a prop in the movie "Back to the Future", showing that the character was a science fiction reader during the early 1950s.

External links

* [http://www.jhallman.com/bttfprops/part_1_fantastic.htm "Back to the Future" Movie Props]


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