A complete issue · 132 pages · 1963
Amazing Stories, June 1963
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1963 — all 132 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 132 pages · 1963
This issue features the two-part serial The Programmed People by Jack Sharkey, which opens a totalitarian society built on mandatory voting and conformity. Lloyd Bodger, navigating the rigid Hive's Temple of collective voting, discovers a fugitive blonde girl being hunted as a traitor—though she mysteriously seems unconcerned about facing "Readjustment." The novelet The Encounter by J.G. Ballard spans 90 pages. Short stories include The Demi-Urge by Thomas Disch, Telempathy by Vance Simonds, and Through Channels by Arthur Porges. A profile examines author Eric Frank Russell. The editorial discusses Soviet astronomer Shklovsky's controversial theory that signals from advanced civilizations should be sought in the Andromeda Nebula rather than nearby stars.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.