MARGULIES, Leo

(1900-1975)

   US publisher and editor, born in Brooklyn and educated at Columbia University. He joined the Frank A. MUNSEY chain of PULP MAGAZINES in 1932, later moving to Beacon Magazines and becoming editorial director of THRILLING WONDER STORIES when Beacon began publishing that title in 1936. LM had overall responsibility for the entire output of the chain;this later included the magazines CAPTAIN FUTURE, STARTLING STORIES and STRANGE STORIES. One of the editors who worked with him on these magazineswas Oscar J. FRIEND, and the two later collaborated on 3 anthologies: From Off This World (anth 1949), a thematic collection about ALIENS, My BestScience Fiction Story (anth 1949) and The Giant Anthology of Science Fiction (anth 1954). After WWII, LM formed a publishing company, and returned to sf as publisher of FANTASTIC UNIVERSE, of which he was also editorial director for a time. He left that company and formed another, which published SATELLITE SCIENCE FICTION. Of the remaining anthologies bearing his name, four - Three Times Infinity (anth 1958), Three in One (anth 1963), Weird Tales (anth 1964) and Worlds of Weird (anth 1965) -were in fact ghost-edited by Sam MOSKOWITZ; but Three from Out There (anth 1959), Get Out of My Sky (anth 1960), The Ghoul Keepers (anth 1961) andThe Unexpected (anth 1961) were LM's work.

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