Bibliographic Details
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| 1939 | 2/1 | 2/2 | 2/3 | 2/4 | ||||||||
| 1940 | 2/5 | 2/6 | 3/1 | 3/2 | 3/3 | 3/4 | 3/5 | 3/6 | 4/1 | 4/2 | 4/3 | 4/4 |
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| 1942 | 5/5 | 6/1 | 6/3 | |||||||||
| 1943 | 6/4 | 6/5 | (nn) | |||||||||
| 1944 | (nn) | (nn) | (nn) | |||||||||
| 1945 | 3/4 | 3/5 | 3/6 | |||||||||
| 1946 | 3/7 | 3/8 | ||||||||||
| 1947 | 3/9 | 3/10 | 3/11 | |||||||||
| 1948 | 3/12 | 4/1 | 4/2 | |||||||||
| 1949 | 4/3 | 4/4 | 4/5 | |||||||||
| Issues of the British reprint of Unknown, showing volume/issue number. Underlining indicates that an issue was dated with the season ("Spring 1945") rather than the month. John W. Campbell was editor throughout. |
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Unknown was edited by John W. Campbell and published by Street & Smith Publications throughout its run. It was pulp-sized from its launch through August 1941, and then bedsheet-sized from October 1941 to April 1943. The last three issues were pulp-sized again. Street & Smith had planned to switch it to digest size with the December 1943 issue, but it was cancelled before that issue appeared. The price began at 20 cents and rose to 25 cents with the change to bedsheet size; it remained at 25 cents when the size changed back to pulp. It had 164 pages when pulp-sized and 130 pages while it was bedsheet-sized. It began as a monthly and switched to bimonthly from December 1940 on. The volume numbering was regular, with six volumes of six numbers and a final volume of three numbers.
The first six U.S. issues were available directly in the UK, but thereafter an abridged British reprint edition was issued by Atlas Publications, beginning in September 1939. It was pulp-sized, and priced at 9d (nine pence) throughout. It appeared on a regular monthly schedule until December 1940, after which the schedule became quite irregular, with two or three issues appearing each year until 1949. The volume numbering initially followed the corresponding U.S. editions, with some omitted numbers in 1942 and 1943, and then disappeared for four issues; from the twenty-eighth issue (Spring 1945) the magazine was numbered as if it had been given volumes of twelve numbers since the start of the run. The title was changed from Unknown to Unknown Worlds with the March 1942 issue.
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