Fantastic Story Quarterly

[2] It helped to form science fiction as a separately marketed genre,[2] and by the mid-1930s several more sf magazines had appeared, including Wonder Stories, also published by Gernsback.

The original plan was for the magazine to carry no new fiction, but this policy was changed shortly before publication, and at least one new story was included in every issue.

The success led Standard to issue Wonder Story Annual in 1950 to provide an outlet for reprinting longer material.

You need the crumbling paper, the smell of woodpulp, and the mixture of advertisements, illustrations and old pulp-style text to create the right atmosphere".

van Vogt's novel, Slan, which had originally appeared in Street and Smith's Astounding Science Fiction in 1940, and which was reprinted in Fantastic Story's Summer 1952 issue.

Fantastic Story also printed Gordon R. Dickson's first sale, "Trespass", a collaboration with Poul Anderson which appeared in the very first issue.

Illustrators whose work appeared in its pages included Virgil Finlay, Ed Emsh, and Earle Bergey.