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''Fantastic Story Quarterly ''was a 1950-55 science fiction pulp magazine which merged pulp reprints with new stories. It was published on a quarterly schedule by Best Books, a subsidiary imprint of Standard Magazines. Initially priced at 25 cents, the 160-page debut issue appeared in Spring 1950. Beginning with the Summer 1951 issue, it was known as ''Fantastic Story Magazine'' until it folded (Spring 1955), leaving a total of 23 issues. The first editor, Sam Merwin, Jr., left with the Fall 1951 issue. His replacement, Samuel Mines, edited from the Winter 1952 issue until Fall 1954, when he was replaced by Alexander Samalman who edited the last two issues in 1955 (Winter, Spring).〔(Collectors' Showcase )〕 == Publication history and contents == The first science fiction (sf) magazine, Amazing Stories, was launched in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback at the height of the pulp magazine era. It helped to form science fiction as a separately marketed genre,〔 and by the mid-1930s several more sf magazines had appeared, including ''Wonder Stories'', also published by Gernsback. In 1936, Ned Pines of Beacon Publications bought ''Wonder Stories'' from Hugo Gernsback.〔Ashley (2000), p. 91.〕 Pines changed the title to ''Thrilling Wonder Stories'',〔Ashley (2000), p. 100.〕 and in 1939 and 1940 added two more sf titles: ''Startling Stories'' and ''Captain Future''.〔Ashley (2000), p. 136.〕〔Ashley (2000), pp. 151−153.〕 Pines had acquired reprint rights to the fiction published in ''Wonder Stories'' as part of the transaction, and he instituted a "Hall of Fame" department in ''Startling Stories'' to carry some of this material. ''Captain Future'' also carried reprint material, but neither ''Startling'' nor ''Captain Future'' had room for some of the longer stories in the backfile. At the end of the 1940s a boom in science fiction magazines encouraged Pines to issue a new magazine, titled ''Fantastic Stories Quarterly'', as a vehicle for reprinting this older material. The original plan was for the magazine to carry no new material, but this policy was changed shortly before publication, and at least one new story was included in every issue.〔 The initial schedule was quarterly, and the magazine became popular with fans, because of the access it gave them to old favorite stories. Much of the older material had not yet been republished in book form, and reprint magazines such as ''Fantastic Story Quarterly'' were the only way to read these stories other than by acquiring a second-hand copy of the original magazines. In late 1952 it switched to a bimonthly schedule, having changed its title to ''Fantastic Story Magazine'' the previous year, but this only lasted until the following year. It was back on a quarterly schedule starting with the Winter 1954 issue. The pulps were in rapid decline by the mid-1950s, and both ''Fantastic Story Magazine'' and ''Thrilling Wonder Stories'' were merged with ''Startling Stories'' in mid-1955, though ''Startling'' itself ceased publication at the end of the year.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fantastic Story Quarterly」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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