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Wonder Stories
''Wonder Stories'' was an early American science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955. It was founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1929 after he had lost control of his first science fiction magazine, ''Amazing Stories'', when his media company Experimenter Publishing went bankrupt. Within a few months of the bankruptcy, Gernsback launched three new magazines: ''Air Wonder Stories'', ''Science Wonder Stories'' and ''Science Wonder Quarterly''.
''Air Wonder Stories'' and ''Science Wonder Stories'' were merged in 1930 as ''Wonder Stories'', and the quarterly was renamed ''Wonder Stories Quarterly''. The magazines were not financially successful, and in 1936 Gernsback sold ''Wonder Stories'' to Ned Pines at Beacon Publications, where, retitled ''Thrilling Wonder Stories'', it continued for nearly 20 years. The last issue was dated Winter 1955, and the title was then merged with ''Startling Stories'', another of Pines' science fiction magazines. ''Startling'' itself lasted only to the end of 1955 before finally succumbing to the decline of the pulp magazine industry.
The editors under Gernsback's ownership were David Lasser, who worked hard to improve the quality of the fiction, and, from mid-1933, Charles Hornig. Both Lasser and Hornig published some well-received fiction, such as Stanley Weinbaum's "A Martian Odyssey", but Hornig's efforts in particular were overshadowed by the success of ''Astounding Stories'', which had become the leading magazine in the new field of science fiction. Under its new title, ''Thrilling Wonder Stories'' was initially unable to improve its quality. For a period in the early 1940s it was aimed at younger readers, with a juvenile editorial tone and covers that depicted beautiful women in implausibly revealing spacesuits. Later editors began to improve the fiction, and by the end of the 1940s, in the opinion of science fiction historian Mike Ashley, the magazine briefly rivaled ''Astounding''.
==Publication history==
By the end of the 19th century, stories centered on scientific inventions and set in the future, in the tradition of Jules Verne, were appearing regularly in popular fiction magazines.〔Ashley, ''Time Machines'', p. 7.〕 Magazines such as ''Munsey's Magazine'' and ''The Argosy'', launched in 1889 and 1896 respectively, carried a few science fiction stories each year. Some upmarket "slicks" such as ''McClure's'', which paid well and were aimed at a more literary audience, also carried scientific stories, but by the early years of the 20th century, science fiction (though it was not yet called that) was appearing more often in the pulp magazines than in the slicks.〔Ashley, ''Time Machines'', pp. 21–25.〕〔Nicholls, "Pulp Magazines", p. 979.〕〔Ashley, ''Transformations'', p. 155.〕 The first science fiction 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 end of the 1930s a "Golden Age of Science Fiction" had begun, inaugurated by the efforts of John W. Campbell, the editor of ''Astounding Science Fiction''. ''Wonder Stories'' was launched in the pulp era, not long after ''Amazing Stories'', and lasted through the Golden Age and well into the 1950s.〔Stableford, "Amazing Stories", p. 27.〕〔Nicholls, "Golden Age of SF", p. 258.〕
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