London Museum of Brands Excursion
It’s been quite a while since I’ve contributed to the cite. Things have been a bit crazy; I won’t bore you with the details. But, I’m back and hopefully will be able to contribute more […]
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Progress on Mr. Trek’s 1/100th Scale Enterprise Model
Mr. Trek released a progress report video on his build of a massive, 1/100th scale Star Ship Enterprise (NCC 1701, without any appended letters cause this is a model of the original Enterprise from the […]
TODAY ONLY! ALLEN STEELE at HIS AND HER COMICS!
Award winning author Allen Steele will be making an appearance at His and Her Comics in Brookline Massachusetts to present his latest Captain Future tale – Lost Apollo – where he will be signing copies […]
What Happened to THE TIME MACHINE?
Source: What Happened to THE TIME MACHINE? Dan MonroeMOVIES, MUSIC & MONSTERS!! Dan Monroe is an entertainer, documentary filmmaker and music instructor. He teaches voice, guitar and piano while also producing both commercial and entertainment […]
Son of the Return of the GREATEST SF MAGAZINE COVERS OF ALL TIME!
Planet Stories, Satellite Science Fiction, Unknown, Science Fantasy, Vanguard Science Fiction – these are some of the greatest magazine covers of all time.
The Return of THE GREATEST SF MAGAZINE COVERS OF ALL TIME
Many more Great magazine covers from the world of science fiction
The Greatest SF Magazine Covers of ALL TIME (at least according to me)
Well, at least according to me!
The News Stand: Ten and Twenty Years Ago This October
I decided to go ahead and finish out October’s anniversaries in one go, as there are very few magazines remaining on the stands on either decennial anniversary. Ten years ago (2013), pretty much tells the […]
The News Stand 30 Years Ago This Month: October, 1993
As far as magazines on the news stands goes, nineteen ninety three was not a bad year: Weird Tales managed to get two issue out (not shown because I don’t think the issue from two […]
On the News Stand Variant: Pulp Rivalry
Amazing Stories started this whole thing in 1926. (I’m ignoring Weird Tales and The Thrill Book because neither was a “science fiction” magazine.) In 1929 Gernsback lost his publishing empire to bankruptcy and later that […]
The News Stand – 50 Years Ago This Month – October, 1973
October 1973 brings with it the 23rd anniversary issue of Galaxy, a sputtering revival of Weird Tales and a suggestion that the new Vertex Science Fiction might be hanging around for a bit.
The News Stand: 60 Years Ago This Month – 1963
October of 1963 sees the number of magazines on the news stands still dwindling from their mid-50s high.
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Cosmos Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine
Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine, edited by David G. Hartwell
The News Stand: 70 Years Ago This Month (1953)
October 1953 on the news stands. Titles have already begun to fade from the stands as the heyday of genre mags begins to wane./
The News Stand Eighty Years Ago This Month (October 2023)
What might have been on the stands in October, 1943.
The News Stand Ninety Years Ago Today (October 2023)
The SF/F/H magazines on the stands, ninety years ago this month
Today’s Favorite Magazine From the V1N1 Collection – with a twist: Black Gate
A more recent addition to the collection.
The News Stand Galleries for September (1933 – 2013)
What the magazine stands might have looked like for Fans in years gone by
News Stand Anniversaries – 60 Years Ago
Sixty years ago – 1963 – would find me on the verge of discovery with the upcoming airing of Fireball XL-5 – which would eventually lead me down the path to Science Fiction Fandom. Meanwhile, […]
News Stand Anniversaries
Eighty and ninety years ago, the news stands were a changing landscape for fans of the genre.
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: The FIRST Science Fiction Magazines
A look at some “also-rans” in the history of the SF magazine
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Galileo
William McCaffrey, Charles C. Ryan, Galileo and Galaxy and Avenue Victor Hugo all come together in this SF historical nexus
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Captain Future: Wizard of Science
Captain Future, the first and ONLY Science Fiction Hero Pulp!
Today’s Favorite V1N1 Magazine is – From 1940
A short-lived attempt at returning to the field by one of the genre’s first editors.
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: The Magazine of Fantasy
This is one that I definitely acquired in the Huckster’s Room of a convention…probably a Philcon, probably the 1974 or 1975 Philcon. (I say “Huckster” because that is what it was affectionately called back then.) […]
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Fantastic Universe
Fantastic Universe, one of the more successful digests emerging from the 1953 Boom in SF magazines.
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Space Stories
Today, a short-lived action-adventure SF magazine from 1952 that brings back memories of the ice cream truck
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Dynamic Science Stories
Another pulp magazine from the late 1930s that forms part of Marvel Comic’s pre-history
Today’s Favorite Magazine From The V1N1 Collection: Amazing Forries
An autobiographical “pulp” celebrating the life and times of Fandom’s Number 1 Fan Personality
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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.
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