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''Planet Stories'' was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published by Fiction House between 1939 and 1955. It featured interplanetary adventures, both in space and on other planets, and was initially focused on a young readership. Malcolm Reiss was editor or editor-in-chief for all of its 71 issues. ''Planet Stories'' was launched at the same time as ''Planet Comics'', the success of which probably helped to fund the early issues of ''Planet Stories''. ''Planet'' did not pay well enough to regularly attract the leading science fiction writers of the day, but did manage to obtain work from well-known names on occasion, including Isaac Asimov and Clifford Simak. In 1952 ''Planet'' published Philip K. Dick's first sale, and went on to print four more of his stories over the next three years. The two writers most identified with ''Planet Stories'' are Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury, both of whom set many of their stories on a romanticized version of Mars that owed much to the depiction of Barsoom in the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Bradbury's work for ''Planet'' included an early story in his ''Martian Chronicles'' sequence. Brackett's best-known work for the magazine was a series of adventures featuring Eric John Stark, which began in the summer of 1949. Brackett and Bradbury collaborated on one story, "Lorelei of the Red Mist", which appeared in 1946; it was generally well-received, although one letter to the magazine complained that the story's treatment of sex, though mild by modern standards, was too explicit. The artwork also emphasized attractive women, with scantily clad damsels in distress or alien princesses on almost every cover. ==Publication history== Although science fiction (sf) had been published before the 1920s, it did not begin to coalesce into a separately marketed genre until the appearance in 1926 of ''Amazing Stories'', a pulp magazine published by Hugo Gernsback. By the end of the 1930s the field was undergoing its first boom.〔Malcolm Edwards & Peter Nicholls, "SF Magazines", in Clute & Nicholls, ''Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', pp. 1066–1068.〕 Fiction House, a major pulp publisher, had run into difficulties during the Depression, but after a relaunch in 1934 found success with detective and romance pulp titles. Fiction House's first title with sf interest was ''Jungle Stories'', which was launched in early 1939; it was not primarily a science fiction magazine, but often featured storylines with marginally science fictional themes, such as survivors from Atlantis. At the end of 1939 Fiction House decided to add an sf magazine to its line up; it was titled ''Planet Stories'', and was published by Love Romances, a subsidiary company that had been created to publish Fiction House's romance titles. The first issue was dated Winter 1939. Two comics were launched at the same time: ''Jungle Comics'' and ''Planet Comics''; both were published monthly, whereas ''Planet Stories'' was quarterly, and it is quite likely that the success of the comics funded the early issues of the pulps.〔Ashley, ''Time Machines'', pp. 151–152.〕 Malcolm Reiss edited ''Planet Stories'' from the beginning, and retained editorial oversight and control throughout its run, though he was not always the named editor on the masthead; when other editors were involved, his title was "managing editor".〔Malcolm Edwards, "Planet Stories", in Clute & Nicholls, ''Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'', p. 937.〕 The first of these sub-editors was Wilbur S. Peacock, who took over with the Fall 1942 issue and remained until Fall 1945, after which he was replaced by Chester Whitehorn for three issues, and then by Paul L. Payne, from Fall 1946 to Spring 1950.〔 With the Summer 1950 issue the editorship passed to Jerome Bixby, who was already editing ''Jungle Stories''. Soon thereafter ''Planet Stories'' switched from a quarterly to bimonthly schedule. Bixby lasted a little over a year; Malcolm Reiss took over again in September 1951, and three issues later, in March 1952, Jack O'Sullivan became editor.〔 A contemporary market survey records that in 1953, payment rates were only one to two cents per word; this was substantially behind the leading magazines of the day.〔de Camp, ''Science-Fiction Handbook'', pp. 102–103.〕〔de Camp, ''Science-Fiction Handbook'', pp. 114–115.〕 ''Planet'' returned to a quarterly schedule beginning with the Summer 1954 issue, but the pulp market was collapsing, and the Summer 1955 issue was the final one.〔 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「Planet Stories」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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