Astounding Stories (January 1930)

The first issue of the first magazine devoted entirely to science fiction, with Frank R. Paul's famous cover. Inside are stories by H. G. Wells, Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe, plus Gernsback's opening editorial.

Hugo Gernsback

The only Amazing Stories Annual ever printed, led by The Master Mind of Mars, a complete Barsoom novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It also brings A. Merritt's The Face in the Abyss and a story by H. G. Wells.

Hugo Gernsback

The first issue of the quarterly companion to Amazing Stories, built around the complete text of H. G. Wells's When the Sleeper Wakes. Full issue with the original color cover and pulp illustrations.

Hugo Gernsback

One of the most famous issues in the genre: it introduced Buck Rogers in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan and began The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith, the first space opera.

Hugo Gernsback

The first issue of the magazine Gernsback launched after losing Amazing Stories, with stories by David H. Keller, Fletcher Pratt and H. G. Wells. Gernsback would soon coin the term science fiction in its pages.

Hugo Gernsback