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Marvel Science Stories
American pulp science fiction magazine. Founded 1938 in United States. Ceased 1952.
About Marvel Science Stories
Marvel Science Stories was an American pulp magazine that ran for a total of fifteen issues in two separate runs, both edited by Robert O. Erisman. The publisher for the first run was Postal Publications, and the second run was published by Western Publishing; both companies were owned by Abraham and Martin Goodman. The first issue was dated August 1938, and carried stories with more sexual content than was usual for the genre, including several stories by Henry Kuttner, under his own name and also under pseudonyms. Reaction was generally negative, with one reader referring to Kuttner's story "The Time Trap" as "trash". This was the first of several titles featuring the word "Marvel", and Marvel Comics came from the same stable in the following year.
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Legacy
Marvel Science Stories ceased publication in 1952. Back issues are often held by research libraries and digital archives.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q17113570 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).