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Amazing Science Fiction, April 1958

April 1958

Editor Paul W. Fairman
Cover art Edward Valigursky
Publisher Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
Price $0.35
Pages 148

Vol. 32, No. 4. The title of this issue is "Amazing Science Fiction", a change from the previously used "Amazing Stories" although the editorial on page 3 still refers to the magazine as "Amazing Stories". Subsequent issues will appear as "Amazing Science Fiction Stories". Cele Goldsmith is credited as a managing editor. Cover art illustrates "The Space Breed". "The Observatory" on page 3 is signed "PWF" at the end and attributed to "The Editor" at the top of the page. "Sargasso of Space" is attributed to "Andrew North", Andre Norton's pseudonym used by Ace Books. "One of Our Cities is Missing" is advertised as a "complete book-length novel" and at 60+ pages of magazine text (10 illustrations take up somewhere between 6 and 8 pages out of the 71 pages total) is close to the threshold between a novel and a novella.
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Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
Editor Non Fiction Amazing Science Fiction - 1958 Paul W. Fairman
Cover Art Non Fiction Amazing Science Fiction, April 1958 Edward Valigursky
6 Interior Art Non Fiction The Space Breed Schroeder
19 Interior Art Non Fiction The Last Citizen Waldman
27 Interior Art Non Fiction The Stars Fought Back Martinez
45 Interior Art Non Fiction Venusian, Get Out! Duncanson
66 Interior Art Non Fiction Cartoon: "Jumping Atoms! It takes a long time to get used to the water here on Earth!" Frosty
73 Interior Art Non Fiction One of Our Cities Is Missing uncredited
77 Interior Art Non Fiction One of Our Cities Is Missing [2] uncredited
84 Interior Art Non Fiction One of Our Cities Is Missing [3] uncredited
93 Interior Art Non Fiction One of Our Cities Is Missing [4] uncredited
101 Interior Art Non Fiction One of Our Cities Is Missing [5] uncredited
106 Interior Art Non Fiction One of Our Cities Is Missing [6] uncredited
113 Interior Art Non Fiction One of Our Cities Is Missing [7] uncredited
120 Interior Art Non Fiction One of Our Cities Is Missing [8] uncredited
121 Interior Art Non Fiction One of Our Cities Is Missing [9] uncredited
127 Interior Art Non Fiction One of Our Cities Is Missing [10] uncredited