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Fantastic Adventures

Fantastic Adventures 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. The magazine was published by the Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, then headquartered in Chicago, 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.

Following its demise in 1953, it was absorbed by Fantastic magazine.

At various points during its run, unsold copies were rebound and sold as Fantastic Adventures Quarterly. In addition, almost 20 years after the magazine folded, six stories were reprinted as Fantastic Adventures Yearbook.

There were two separate series of a British reprint edition - one that ran for only two issues in 1946, and a second that ran for 24 issues in the early 1950s.

1939
v1 #1
May
v1 #2
Jul
v1 #3
Sep
v1 #4
Nov

1940
v2 #1
Jan
v2 #2
Feb
v2 #3
Mar
v2 #4
Apr
v2 #5
May
v2 #6
Jun
v2 #7
Aug
v2 #8
Oct

1941
v3 #1
Jan
v3 #2
Mar
v3 #3
May
v3 #4
Jun
v3 #5
Jul
v3 #6
Aug
v3 #7
Sep
v3 #8
Oct
v3 #9
Nov
v3 #10
Dec

1942
v4 #1
Jan
v4 #2
Feb
v4 #3
Mar
v4 #4
Apr
v4 #5
May
v4 #6
Jun
v4 #7
Jul
v4 #8
Aug
v4 #9
Sep
v4 #10
Oct
v4 #11
Nov
v4 #12
Dec

1943
v5 #1
Jan
v5 #2
Feb
v5 #3
Mar
v5 #4
Apr
v5 #5
May
v5 #6
Jun
v5 #7
Jul
v5 #8
Aug
v5 #9
Oct
v5 #10
Dec

1944
v6 #1
Feb
v6 #2
Apr
v6 #3
Jun
v6 #4
Oct

1945
v7 #1
Jan
v7 #2
Apr
v7 #3
Jul
v7 #4
Oct
v7 #5
Dec

1946
v8 #1
Feb
v8 #2
May
v8 #3
Jul
v8 #4
Sep
v8 #5
Nov

1947
v9 #1
Jan
v9 #2
Mar
v9 #3
May
v9 #4
Jul
v9 #5
Sep
v9 #6
Oct
v9 #7
Nov
v9 #8
Dec

1948
v10 #1
Jan
v10 #2
Feb
v10 #3
Mar
v10 #4
Apr
v10 #5
May
v10 #6
Jun
v10 #7
Jul
v10 #8
Aug
v10 #9
Sep
v10 #10
Oct
v10 #11
Nov
v10 #12
Dec

1949
v11 #1
Jan
v11 #2
Feb
v11 #3
Mar
v11 #4
Apr
v11 #5
May
v11 #6
Jun
v11 #7
Jul
v11 #8
Aug
v11 #9
Sep
v11 #10
Oct
v11 #11
Nov
v11 #12
Dec

1950
v12 #1
Jan
v12 #2
Feb
v12 #3
Mar
v12 #4
Apr
v12 #5
May
v12 #6
Jun
v12 #7
Jul
v12 #8
Aug
v12 #9
Sep
v12 #10
Oct
v12 #11
Nov
v12 #12
Dec

1951
v13 #1
Jan
v13 #2
Feb
v13 #3
Mar
v13 #4
Apr
v13 #5
May
v13 #6
Jun
v13 #7
Jul
v13 #8
Aug
v13 #9
Sep
v13 #10
Oct
v13 #11
Nov
v13 #12
Dec

1952
v14 #1
Jan
v14 #2
Feb
v14 #3
Mar
v14 #4
Apr
v14 #5
May
v14 #6
Jun
v14 #7
Jul
v14 #8
Aug
v14 #9
Sep
v14 #10
Oct
v14 #11
Nov
v14 #12
Dec

1953
v15 #1
Jan
v15 #2
Feb
v15 #3
Mar

Fantastic Adventures Quarterly

1941				v1 #1 Winter
1942	v1 #2 Spring	v1 #3 Summer	v1 #4 Fall	v2 #1 Winter
1943	v2 #2 Spring	v2 #3 Summer	v2 #4 Fall	v3 #1 Winter
1948		v6 #1 Summer	v6 #2 Fall	v6 #3 Winter
1949	v7 #1 Spring	v7 #2 Summer	v7 #3 Fall	v7 #4 Winter
1950	v8 #1 Spring	v8 #2 Summer	v8 #3 Fall	v8 #4 Winter
1951	v9 #1 Spring

Fantastic Adventures Yearbook

1970

Fantastic Adventures (UK)

1947

1950

1951

1952

#10

#11

#12

#13

#14

#15

1953

#16

#17

#18

#19

#20

#21

#22

#23

1954

#24