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Wonder Stories

 Collection
Identifier: PZ1.A1 S3496

  • Staff Only

Overview

Wonder Stories was an American fantasy fiction magazine published between 1930 - 1936. This publication was a combined version of Air Wonder Stories and Science Wonder Stories.

Dates

  • 1933

Language of Materials

These materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

These materials have unrestrict access.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish materials from this collection must be obtained from the head of Special Collections and Archives.

Extent

1 Volume(s) (The collection consists of a single issue of the magazine. )

Scope and Contents

Wonder Stories was an American fantasy fiction magazine published between 1930 - 1936. Georgia Tech Archives and Special Collections holds a single issue of the publicaiton published in August of 1933.

Biographical / Historical

In 1930, editor Gernsback decided to merge magazines Air Wonder Stories and Science Wonder Stories. It was initally published under Stellar Publishing Corporation, but in 1933 it was published under Continental Publications, Inc until it again changed names.

Arrangement

No arrangment is necessary for this single document collection.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Materials for this collection were donated by Joseph Geierman.

Related Materials

Prior to 1930, there were two seperate magazines titled Science Wonder Stories and Air Wonder Stories. Then, in 1930, the publisher Gernsback decided to combine these two publication into a single publication, which was simply titled Wonder Stories. Again, in 1936, Wonder Stories was retitled Thrilling Wonder Stories. The Georgia Tech Archives also holds material under all of these other names.

Processing Information

These materials were processed by Jocelyn Jagrowski in February 2020.

Title
Inventory of Wonder Storie
Status
Completed
Author
Jocelyn Jagrowski
Date
Copyright February 2020
Description rules
Finding Aid Prepared Using Rlg Best Practice Guidelines For Encoded Archival Description And Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Archives and Special Collections, Library, Georgia Institute of Technology Repository

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