- Fantastic Adventures
Infobox Newspaper
name = Fantastic Adventures
type = Monthly
format =Fantasy fiction magazine
foundation = 1939
owners = Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.
political =
headquarters = 185 N. Wabash Ave.Chicago, Illinois
editor =Raymond A. Palmer Howard Browne
price =
website =
circulation =
ISSN ="Fantastic Adventures" was a fantasy and
science fiction magazine published in theUnited States from 1939 to 1953. Thepulp magazine began as a companion publication to "Amazing Stories ", but following its demise, was absorbed by "Fantastic" magazine in 1954.History
The magazine was founded by editor
Raymond A. Palmer in 1939 as a companion to "Amazing Stories " and was initially published in a large size format to emulate the early "Amazing Stories" magazines.cite web | url = http://isfdb.tamu.edu/wiki/index.php/Magazine:Fantastic_Adventures | accessdate = 2007-02-10 | author = | title = "Fantastic Adventures" (originally appeared in "Tuck's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy") | publisher = Cushing Library Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection atTexas A&M University | date = 2006-06-17 ] The magazine was published by the Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, then headquarted inChicago, Illinois ."Fantastic Adventures" published much light, "frothy" fantasy in its early years, but by the late 1940s was printing much the same material as its companion, only more fantastic in vein.cite web | url = http://isfdb.tamu.edu/wiki/index.php/Magazine:Fantastic_Adventures | accessdate = 2007-02-10 | author = | title = "Fantastic Adventures" (originally appeared in "Tuck's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy") | publisher = Cushing Library Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at
Texas A&M University | date = 2006-06-17 ]At one stage in the very early 1940s, the magazine nearly ceased publication.cite web | url = http://isfdb.tamu.edu/wiki/index.php/Magazine:Fantastic_Adventures | accessdate = 2007-02-10 | author = | title = "Fantastic Adventures" (originally appeared in "Tuck's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy") | publisher = Cushing Library Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at
Texas A&M University | date = 2006-06-17 ] Some stories featured in the magazine around 1950-1951 were of literary importance, but the story quality dropped considerably in its final year of publication.cite web | url = http://isfdb.tamu.edu/wiki/index.php/Magazine:Fantastic_Adventures | accessdate = 2007-02-10 | author = | title = "Fantastic Adventures" (originally appeared in "Tuck's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy") | publisher = Cushing Library Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection atTexas A&M University | date = 2006-06-17 ]"Fantastic Adventures"' position as a companion publication to "Amazing Stories" was taken by "Fantastic".cite web | url = http://isfdb.tamu.edu/wiki/index.php/Magazine:Fantastic_Adventures | accessdate = 2007-02-10 | author = | title = "Fantastic Adventures" (originally appeared in "Tuck's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy") | publisher = Cushing Library Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at
Texas A&M University | date = 2006-06-17 ]Partial list of notable story contributors
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Eando Binder - "The Man Who Saw Too Late", September, 1939
*Robert Bloch - "Lefty Feep and the Racing Robot", April, 1943
*Nelson S. Bond - "The Man Who Weighed Minus Twelve", March, 1940
*Ray Bradbury - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", May, 1947
*L. Sprague de Camp - "The Eye of Tandyla ", May, 1951
*Alfred Coppel - "The Brain that Lost its Head", June, 1951
*Paul W. Fairman - "The Man Who Stopped at Nothing", November, 1951
*Randall Garrett - "Come Along with Me", September, 1947
*L. Ron Hubbard - "The Masters of Sleep", October, 1950
*Fritz Leiber - "You're All Alone", July, 1950
*John D. MacDonald - "The Vanguard of the Lost", May, 1950
*Stephen Marlowe (asMilton Lesser ) - "Anything Your Heart Desires", November, 1951
*William P. McGivern - "The Travelling Brain", March, 1952
*Rog Phillips - "Detour from Tomorrow", March, 1950
*Mack Reynolds - "Isolationist", April, 1950
*Theodore Sturgeon - "Excalibur and the Atom", August, 1951
*Richard Sharpe Shaver - "The Tale of the Last Man", July, 1946
*Dwight V. Swain - "Henry Horn's Super-Solvent", November, 1941
* Karl Tanzler Von Cosel - "The Secret of Elena's Tomb", September, 1947
*William Tenn - "The Last Bounce", September, 1950
*Robert Moore Williams - "Jongor of Lost Land", October, 1940References
External links
* [http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/pulp.html Pulp Fiction at the U.S. Library of Congress]
* [http://www.sfcovers.net/Magazines/FAD12/intro.htm The Visual Index of Science Fiction Cover Art]
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