New York: Readers' Guild, Inc., 1931. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. This issue the magazine shortens title to just ASTOUNDING STORIES. Features the first published story by Harry Bates, "The Tentacles From Below," writing as Anthony Gilmore. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.

New York: Love Romances, 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Incudes "The Incubi of Parallel X" by Ted Sturgeon. Also fiction by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson Alfred Coppel, and others. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.

Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Jack Coggins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Milton Lesser, Bryce Walton and others. SFQ is also notable as it became the last published SF pulp magazine, the last issue in 1958. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 545-550.