Hugo Gernsback launched Amazing Stories in 1926 and changed the course of science fiction. Although early issues relied on well known authors such as H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne, the wide range of immitators published early works by Ray Bradbury (Weird Tales), Arthur Clarke (Astounding Science Fiction) and Robert Heinlein (Also in Astounding Science Fiction).

Amazing Stories, February 1928, the first appearence of Anthony 'Buck' Rogers in the 25th Century by Philip Francis Nowlan.