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 |
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1940 |
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1941 |
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1942 |
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1943 |
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1944 |
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1945 |
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1946 |
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1947 |
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1948 |
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1949 |
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1950 |
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1951 |
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1952 |
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1953 |
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1941 |
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1942 |
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1943 |
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1949 |
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1950 |
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1951 |
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1947 |
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1952 |
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