WONDER STORIES

   1) US magazine amalgamated from AIR WONDER STORIES and SCIENCE WONDER STORIES, 66 issues as WS. Volume numeration continued from Science Wonder Stories, thus beginning with vol 2 \#1. WS was published by Hugo GERNSBACK's Stellar Publishing Corporation June 1930-Oct 1933, and by Gernsback's Continental Publications, Inc. Nov 1933-Apr 1936. The title was then sold to Better Publications, to reappear as THRILLING WONDER STORIES in Aug 1936, with vol numbers continuing from WS. WS was monthlyJune 1930-June 1933, skipped to Aug 1933, monthly Oct 1933-Oct 1935, then 3 last issues: Nov/Dec 1935, Jan/Feb 1936 and Apr 1936. It began as a BEDSHEET-size pulp, but was forced to revert to standard PULP-MAGAZINE format Nov 1930-Oct 1931, returning to bedsheet size Nov 1931 and shrinking again from Nov 1933 until it was sold. David Lasser was managing editor until Oct 1933, being succeeded by Charles D. HORNIG, although Gernsback remained editor-in-chief throughout. Illustrator Frank R. PAULwas the cover artist for all issues.WS was Gernsback's most successful magazine. It encouraged the growth of sf FANDOM by sponsoring the SCIENCE FICTION LEAGUE in 1934. Notable stories include John TAINE's The TimeStream (Dec 1931-Feb 1932; 1946), Stanley G. WEINBAUM's classic "A Martian Odyssey" (July 1934) and Jack WILLIAMSON's "The Moon Era" (Feb 1932). John Beynon Harris (John WYNDHAM) had his first story and much of his early work in WS, and Clark Ashton SMITH published his best sf stories in it, including "City of the Singing Flame" (July 1931) and "The Eternal World" (Mar 1932). One author particularly associated with WS was LaurenceMANNING, all of whose major work appeared there: "The Wreck of the Asteroid" (Dec 1932), the Stranger Club series (1933-5) and the Man who Awoke series (1933). Leslie F. STONE, a woman writer (in those days a rarity), had 5 stories in WS.If Gernsback had paid his authors more (or, in some cases, at all) the magazine might have continued longer, but by 1936 he was finding it difficult to attract decent writers, circulationhad dropped, and WS was sold.

   2) After the demise of TWS in Winter 1955, the Wonder Stories title was resuscitated for a reprint magazine, subtitled "An Anthology of the Best in Science Fiction", ed Jim Hendryx Jr, of which there appeared only 2, widely separated, issues, dated 1957and 1963, the first a digest, the second a pulp. These continued the TWS numeration, as vol 45, \#1 and \#2.

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