While doing research on something entirely unrelated, I came across an image of Ted White, a former editor of Amazing Stories (one of the best IMHO) and I suddenly realized that we’d never posted a comprehensive post on the magazine’s editorships.
I’m not going to go into detail here – there’s a ton of stories associated with each – but I will post images of them, in order of their tenure:
Hugo Gernsback
Founded the magazine in April of 1926 and edited it until losing his publishing business to bankruptcy in April of 1929.
T. O’Connor Sloane
May 1929 to April 1938
Raymond A. Palmer (RAP/the Atom)
June, 1938 to December 1949
Howard Browne
January 1950 to August 1956
Paul W. Fairman
September 1956 to November 1958
Cele Goldsmith (Lalli)
December 1958 to June 1965
Joseph Wrzos (Ross)
August 1965 to October 1967
Harry Harrison
December 1967 to September 1968
Barry Malzberg
November 1968 to March 1969
Ted White
May 1969 to February 1979
Elinor Mavor
May 1979 to September 1982
George Scithers
November 1982 to July 1986
Patrick L. Price
September 1986 to March 1991
Kim Mohan
May 1991 to Summer 2000
Jeff Berkwits
September 2004 to March 2005
Steve Davidson
Summer 2012 to April 2018
Ira Nayman
April 2018 to October 2022
Lloyd Penney
November 2022 to Present
Undeniably cool and tremendously inspiring new cover images coming soon….
Steve Davidson is the publisher of Amazing Stories.
Steve has been a passionate fan of science fiction since the mid-60s, before he even knew what it was called.
