Magazine:Fantastic Science Fiction Stories

Fantastic began as a companion magazine to both Amazing and Fantastic Adventures as a Ziff-Davis digest-sized magazine in 1952. By 1953, Fantastic completely supplanted Fantastic Adventures, which ceased publication after the March 1953 issue.

Fantastic was published monthly from 1957 through mid-1965; it was published bi-monthly otherwise. May43, Oct44, Dec45, Jul46, Mar47, Mar48, Sep48, and Nov50 data was supplied by by [mailto:slamothe.gsirois@cgocable.ca Guy Sirois] ; Jan/Feb, Sep/Oct, Nov/Dec (1953); Jan/Feb, Apr, Dec (1954); Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Dec (1955); Feb, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec (1956); Feb, Mar, Jul, Dec (1957); Jan, Mar, Apr, Jun (1958); Jan, Feb, Nov (1959); Jan, Apr, Jun, Jul, Oct, Dec (1960); Jan, Jul, Sep, Aug, Dec (1961); Feb, Apr, Aug, Oct, Dec (1962); Jan, Feb, Apr, May, Dec (1963); Jul, Nov (1964); Mar, Apr, Jun (1965); Nov66; Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sep, Nov (1967); Jan, May, Aug, Oct, Dec (1968); Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec (1969); Feb, Jun, Oct, Dec (1970); and all of 1971-1980 was supplied by [mailto:billand@scn.org Bill Anderson] The rest of the Fantastic data was supplied by [mailto:dave2003@ancestry.net Dave Kauffman].