Much of the remainder was sent in by literary agents, and generally comprised material rejected by other magazines first, though Scott did obtain two stories from Isaac Asimov.

[note 1] Feature added Super-Science Fiction to Headline's list at the end of 1956, and gave it to Scott to edit, though he was not knowledgeable about the genre.

[3] Scott paid two cents a word for both fiction and non-fiction, a rate that made the magazine competitive with the other major titles in the field.

Magazine distribution, which had to be reliable to support newsstand sales, was made far more difficult when a major distributor, American News Company, was liquidated in 1957.

[12] In 1956, Harlan Ellison was living in uptown Manhattan, in the same apartment building as Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett.

[16] Scott's editorial in the first issue claimed that the magazine would focus on people: "The Man of The Future is going to conquer the universe with his fists and fury.

"[11] Mike Ashley and Milton Subotsky, both science fiction historians, comment on the contradiction between the editorial and the contents of the first couple of issues, in many of which the protagonists fail, die, or go insane.

[21] Ellison was drafted in 1957, but Silverberg's college exemption enabled him to continue writing for Scott, who eventually bought 36 stories from him, never rejecting a single submission.

After that issue "the quality of the fiction dropped rapidly,"[2] according to Ashley, though he adds that "there were just enough good stories to make Super-Science Fiction always interesting, if often disappointing,"[2] picking out "Worlds of Origin", by Jack Vance, from his "Magnus Ridolph" series, and Asimov's "All the Troubles of the World" as highlights.

[2] In Subotsky's words, Scott was "unable to tell good fiction from bad",[11] and the result was a magazine described by critic Brian Stableford as "mediocre".